Learning about happiness from a book within a book within a book! Sound strange? Well, it might to you but to me; there are opportunties to learn about and to find happiness everywhere and any time. Anyway, I'm curently re-reading (for the 4th or 5th time!) a classic...
I read something recently that reminded me of a question I'm often asked about the relationship between work and happiness. For many people, too many I believe, work and happiness and separate and discrete entities. Work is something that takes up most of the time between Monday...
A few weeks ago I posted THIS ARTICLE on my blog. As you can see if you click on the above link, my thoughts and comments went like this...
How are mood, stress and our sex lives related? It is well known that low mood, stress levels and (waning) sex lives are closely related. Despite the fact that so many of us experience this troublesome triad, sexual difficulties remain largely under researched, especially in terms...
A few weeks ago I was asked, by one of our regular Facebook Followers, to comment on the relationship between assertiveness and happiness. It has, as you can see, taken me a while to get round to responding but I guess it's always better to...
As some of you know, I'm currently taking part in Dry July, a great fund raiser for a range of cancer related charities where individuals or teams are sponsored (and hence raise money) by not consuming alcohol for one month. Now I won't bore you with...
What's better for your happiness than a strong espresso? What's going to get your day off to a better start than any pharmaceutical, drug or artificial substance? Positivity, that's what; and happiness can be yours, more often and more usefully, if you do the right things first...
As he's done so many times before, Ross Gittins, the well known and well qualified economics writer for the Sydney Morning Herald has again, today, clearly and succinctly summed up the relationships between money and happiness. He begins with the simple question...
A recent Huffington Post article titled "Surefire steps to a life of happiness and joy" piqued my curiosity. I'm always a bit concerned when I read words like surefire, guaranteed, secrets and the like. But upon further reading I found this particular article quite interesting and...
by Marina Watson Pelaez from Time Magazine A recent survey by Harvard professor Robert Epstein found that 25% of our happiness hinges on how well we're able to manage stress. The next logical question is, of course, how best can we reduce our stress? Epstein's study, which...
