Christmas Video Gift for You December 20, 2008
Posted by selfworks in Happiness and Success.Tags: Christmas, Christmas vide, gift, happiness, inspiring, inspiring video
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Christmas is a time when everyone’s busy, so I’ll keep this short and sweet.
Your gift this year is a video with a slightly different take on Christmas and New Year, designed to be a bit of help, and hopefully spread some peace and good cheer, in a way that’s quick to access. It’s at:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WMAAgLetWf4
Hope it helps and that you have a wonderful Christmas…the blog will be back properly in the New Year.
Positive psychology? A huge thumbs up! March 1, 2007
Posted by selfworks in Uncategorized.Tags: be_happy, happiness, positive_psychology
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During the “enforced website absence” see above, it actually became pretty stressful to be on the computer (think checkingto see if the site was back up every half hour or so).
So, asyou can imagine, I soon decided that activities away from the computer were better…and therefore got to read an absolute gem of a book.
Unlke a lot of recommendations Positive Psychology in a Nutshell by Dr Ilona Boniwell (what an apt name) is a print book. But it’s such an entertaining readable, yet lucid, intelligent,useful and plain fascinating summary that I can only recommend it utterly to anyone who wants to be happy (or help others to do the same).
You could argue that the book simply explains the light that psychological methods are shedding on topics which the self-growth movement has been pretty sure about for years. But what light! For example, she shows why you need a ratio of positive to negative thoughts of at least 3:1 in order to be happy…and also talks about the ratio above which positive thoughts can have an opposite effect, and why!
For just over a fiver, this concise little book is a great find, and a bargain.
(And, clearly, it’ll also help keep you calm if your website crashes
Hope it helps.
More soon
Clare
What Makes You Happy? January 23, 2007
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Travelling back to London yesterday, on a long car journey, one thing became clear.
According to each of the various radio stations that came through on the trip, yesterday was “Blue Monday.” Apparently, it’s so-called because it’s the day in the year when people are most likely to be depressed.
And the reason I know this is because each station outlined the gory details of such potential depression in considerable depth. Except one.
Now, obviously, I won’t be compounding the issue by repeating the depression details. But I was so inspired by the station that decided to buck the trend and do things differently, that this post is a homage to that decision, and an attempt to spread its cheer around the internet as well.
The idea
The gist of the cheery progamme’s approach was, “To counteract the blues, let us know what makes you happy”. Great stuff-especially as most of that which came back were the small but priceless things that make up life for most of us.
Given the nature of the internet this can go one stage further. So, please let someone else know what makes you happy, and encourage them to think what makes them happy, and to pass on both the concept and the happiness to someone else.
The “someone else” could be general, (like posting a comment here, or anywhere else) or just a chat with your nearest and dearest. The key points are the happiness, and the “pass-it-on”.
Starting it off
So to start it off, off the top of my head, some things that make me happy are:
-Snuggling under a duvet
-Coming into a warm house from the cold outside.
-Seeing other people smile
-Chocolate pudding
-Watching squirrels (and other wildlife)
NB. You don’t need five things…Just think of something, pass it on, and enjoy!
More soon
Clare




