Rachel Dry| May 30, 2014 The happiness guru looks relaxed. His bright red shoes echo the brightness of Oprah’s pink shirt and the flowers behind them. It’s the sort of color palette that is either carefully planned or happens naturally when one of you is a happiness guru and the other one of you is Oprah. In…
Not all holidays turn out happy? How do you try and ensure that it does? A NEW survey has revealed that travellers who plan ahead, make a local connection and venture to countries abroad are more likely to return from a happy vacation. That’s according to the 414 travellers surveyed in a new poll conducted…
Kathy Caprino | May 29, 2014 Part of a series on The Happiness – Success Connection In the past eight years, I’ve heard from hundreds of professionals who’ve worked with other career coaches and consultants to no avail. They failed to generate the change or success they wanted, and wasted time, money and energy. I…
Cosmin Gheorghe | May 29, 2014 It was my pleasure to chat today with another true culture change catalyst: Rich Sheridan, Cofounder and CEO at MenloInnovations and author of Joy, Inc. There are four main issues that I take from my conversation with Rich, also reflected in some ways in Arianna Huffington’s latest book, Thrive: 1. Backwardness…
Aine O’Connor | May 2014 How, they asked, was industry to remain profitable if workers were being paid more and working less? Proof was in the proverbial and within a few years they were following suit. Time and again, study after study has proven that shorter working weeks are more productive working weeks. It is…
Andre Cooray | May/June 2014 Everyone has bad days, but if you can’t remember the last time you had a good one or feel like there is nothing to look forward to anymore (other than your next vacation), you might be due for a mental makeover. Sometimes the only thing holding us back from true happiness, good health or reaching our life…
May 12, 2014 | Kira M. Newman for the National Edition When I picked up Shawn Achor’s book Before Happiness, I thought I was reading a book about positivity. It turns out, it’s also a book about success – and I shouldn’t have been surprised. Achor’s famous TED talk explains why our ideas about work…
Mary Anne Thomas | April 9, 2014 If you knew for certain that a simple exercise would bring you better health, would you do it? Probably not. In The Happiness Advantage, author Shawn Achor recounts a conversation he had with a leading CEO. Achor demonstrated with overwhelming research that writing down three good things a…
Tom Black | April 6, 2014 For 30 years, I have been saying “Embrace Change.” Our hope for the future is based on “change.” In every change we face, there is a seed for greater growth. Charles Darwin said in “The Origin of the Species”: “It is not the strongest of the species that survive,…
AFP | 2014-3-28 A survey has revealed that travelers who plan ahead, make a local connection and venture to countries abroad are more likely to return from a happy vacation. That’s according to the 414 travelers surveyed in a new poll conducted by “happiness expert” Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage and travel agency…
