Phil Robinson | September 21, 2013 The summer holidays dragged like a ball and chain and I resorted to preemptive yelling, mostly “No!”, at any request of my sons Caspar, 6, Conrad, 8, and Oscar, 11. By early September, I was keeping a criminal record for each child in my head. I exploded at the smallest infraction. I had rules for just about everything. Parenting…
Rick Ferri | September 18, 2013 One of the keys to investment success is to avoid the noise. Investment noise is the constant drumbeat of extraneous information that we’re all subjected to day in and day out. It comes to us via the financial press, the internet and even in the workplace. Ignore this noise…
August 4, 2013 Playful parenting approach helps raise smart and happy kids, two recent studies have revealed. In one study researchers found that, when compared to a supportive style, tiger parenting give rise to children who suffer academically and emotionally, while the second one suggested that children raised by authoritarian parents struggle with depression, anxiety…
Paul Mountjoy | WASHINGTON September 18, 2013 Ask anyone what they want in life, and the answer is invariably: “To be happy.” However, the question remains how to achieve this lofty goal and what tools, skills and strategies are necessary to fulfill the goal of personal happiness. This is where best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage and Before…
Ed Frauenheim | September 12, 2013 Happiness guru Shawn Achor is past preaching to the choir. Now he’s going after the skeptics. Achor’s first book, “The Happiness Advantage,” published in 2010, marshaled the latest evidence that positive thinking produces better business results. And his tool kit of happiness habits — such as naming three “gratitudes” a day…
Dan Schawbel | 9 September 2013 I recently spoke to Shawn Achor, who is the author of the new book, Before Happiness: The 5 Hidden Keys to Achieving Success, Spreading Happiness, and Sustaining Positive Change. Shawn is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the…
Galit Breen | September 1, 2013 Cutting-edge happiness and success research shows that the tiger mom parenting style has it all wrong and the results are unhappy and (surprisingly?) unsuccessful children. Enter: dolphin dads. A switch in your thinking may be the key to raising successful children. In 2011, Amy Chua’s Tiger Mom threw many of us…
Amanda Baltazar | August 27, 2013 “If you’re happy in your job, you’re less likely to quit,” says Shawn Achor, one of the designers and teachers of Harvard University’s Happiness course, and author of Before Happiness, to be published this month. Most of us think that if we’re successful at work, we’ll be happy, but…
Kathy Caprino | 8/26/2013 If you conduct a Google search for “great career,” you’ll find over 1.4 million hits – articles, interviews, books, videos, training programs, ads and much more (and some of these will be my own posts about what it takes to have a satisfying career). But the vast majority of these touch on the outer…
Belle Beth Cooper | August 12, 2013 Happiness is so interesting, because we all have different ideas about what it is and how to get it. It’s also no surprise that it’s the Nr.1 value for Buffer’s culture, if you see our slidedeck about it. So naturally we are obsessed with it. I would love to be happier, as…
