As you have been reading articles on Positive Psychology News Daily (PPND), you may have been thinking, “How do these positive psychology concepts fit together?”
The Image Maps
Introducing… the Image Maps. These image maps are to help people get a mental structure for storing information about positive psychology. These image maps are the brainchild […]
There is but one topic to write about on this day…
LOVE
Love and the Capacity to Love is one of the twenty-four character strengths identified in Peterson and Seligman’s book Character Strengths and Virtues (2004). Love and the Capacity to Love is defined as “valuing close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing and […]
Topics: All, Love, Strengths, _1 Positive Experiences, _2 Positive Traits
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I began to write this piece right after talking to one of my clients, who has taken countless risks since we started working together last fall, from launching her own photography business in her forties to getting involved in the martial arts and earning her yellow belt. When we first started, she was about to turn forty and was filled with […]
Topics: All, Goals, _1 Positive Experiences
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OK. A lot has been written on goals and a lot of it at length. Rightfully so. Being a joiner, I decided this month to jump on to the bandwagon and participate in the goal-setting theme. However, I’ve decided to make my contribution succinct, for easy digestion.
On our way to meeting larger goals, we set […]
Topics: All, Exercises, Goals, _1 Positive Experiences, _2 Positive Traits
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Welcome to February. Has your life changed since the New Year? Do you want it to?
What is the #1 habit you want to create right now? Do you want to eat healthier? Become more organized? Remember where you put your keys? Give up alcohol?
Here are some new results from Positive Psychology that could help you […]
To expand on my first entry’s musings about income and happiness, I’d like to introduce how the simple principles developed by Mohammad Yunus, last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, warrant the interest of positive psychology. If you’ve ever met Professor Yunus, you can immediately see how his kind spirit and strong convictions have helped Grameen […]
Have you ever caught yourself so immersed and absorbed in an activity that hours pass and you feel as though you’ve only been doing it for minutes? Have you ever experienced the sensation of action and awareness merging together into one fluid state? This experience is called flow. Flow experiences are optimal experiences that provide […]
It has been called a “marketer’s dream” and “just reformulations of the platitudes you’d gather if you spent a half-hour reading bumper stickers in the Whole Foods parking lot” (See Boston Magazine’s September 2006 issue: Happiness Is…None of the Above).
It has been portrayed by the media as a cult, as a “so-called science”, as merely a […]
Topics: All, Media, _1 Positive Experiences, _3 Positive Organizations
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The late song master, Jim Croce, portrayed positive psychology principles in many of his ballads, including the hit I’ve Got A Name. This triggered a realization within me that addressing someone by their first name can have a reciprocal, and emotionally and physically empowering influence on self and others. There is something special, almost […]
Do you spend a long time at a fork in the road deciding what to do? Or with the huge number of options we have today, are you on a roundabout in the road not sure which branch to take? When you do choose a branch, do you follow it with confidence or do you […]
Topics: All, Decision-Making, Exercises, _2 Positive Traits
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It was a little over a year ago and I had just returned from a family vacation. I sat down at the computer to read my email. I had “unplugged” for a few days. I was hoping that no big issues were waiting for me. I started flipping through each one quickly. I was on […]
Topics: All, Exercises, Gratitude, _1 Positive Experiences, _2 Positive Traits
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