How You Can Stay Forever Young Success Magazine, Shawn Achor December 16, 2016 If there is anything we thought we could be sure of, it’s that time moves in only one direction. That was the prevailing view anyway, right up until my mentor Ellen Langer proved it wrong with one brilliant stroke. In 1979, Langer designed a week-long…
3 Ways to Spread Positivity Success Magazine, Shawn Achor November 3, 2016 In director Christopher Nolan’s film Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a man named Cobb who uses futuristic military technology to steal people’s corporate secrets by digging into their subconscious while they sleep. Then a secretive entrepreneur named Saito hires Cobb to do something a little different:…
Think You Can’t Change Others Or Increase Their Happiness? You Can, And Here’s How Forbes, Kathy Caprino November 21, 2016 In my years as a therapist, I could see clearly in my interactions with clients that how I approached them and their challenges could either make or break their day and their therapeutic progress. If we focused…
3 Happiness Hacks to Savor the Holiday Season Live Happy, Amy Blankson November 1, 2016 Use technology to get more out of life, not distract you from it. Buy the groceries! Prep the turkey! Set the table! In the midst of the scurry to get ready for Thanksgiving, sometimes it can be difficult to just enjoy the moment…
How to Be Happier in Just 5 Minutes a Day Success Magazine, Shawn Achor October 14, 2016 Just as it takes practice to master a new skill, training your brain to notice positive things takes practice. The best way to kick-start this is to write down three good things that happen each day. The items don’t need to…
Share a Smile In honor of National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month Shawn Achor and I are giving away ten copies of our children’s book Ripple’s Effect, published by Little Pickle Press. It takes big actions to make big changes. Or does it? In Ripple’s Effect, residents of an aquarium learn that sometimes a smile is all…
How to Stop Negative Emotions from Derailing Your Success Success Magazine, Shawn Achor September 23, 2016 Sometimes we come across obstacles in our lives that lower our overall level of happiness and disrupt our path to success—I call these mental map hijackers. A common hijacker is a negative boss who tries to drive productivity through intimidation. There are two…
How to Trick Your Mind Into Doing Things You Hate to Do Success Magazine, Shawn Achor August 26, 2016 Believe it or not, adversity and challenge at work don’t have to be the enemies of engagement and motivation; they can actually be the glue. Why? The answer lies in Leon Festinger’s famous work on a psychological phenomenon called…
Face Down Any Challenge with These 3 Key Pieces of Advice Live Happy, Shawn Achor & Michelle Gielan August 2016 When we address difficulties head-on, we can truly flourish and thrive. On one of our first dates, we sat across the table from each other at a sushi restaurant in Chicago and shared stories of growing…
10 Little Travel Mistakes That Make Your Vacation Unnecessarily Stressful Reader’s Digest, Elizabeth Bacharach August 2016 You don’t research in advance Planning activities in advance boosts happiness even before your trip. “The peak of enjoyment actually comes before a vacation in anticipation of the vacation,” says Pauline Frommer, editorial director of Frommer’s Guidebooks and Frommers.com. “Planning…
