What’s your mission?
Who are you? What difference can you make? Why are you here? Some people just know. Others are on a voyage of discovery. Open-minded exploration is fundamental to happiness. Pay attention and see patterns in your life. What central themes recur? When you pursue a...
Dancing in the moment
Rush, rush, rush. . .I often have real concern in organisations when I see people lurch from one frenetic activity to the next, taking little opportunity to sit back and reflect on what and how they are doing. It often makes for bad business due to tunnel vision....
Go with the flow?
Sounds a bit too hippy and laid back for modern leadership? According to positive psychologists, achieving a state of flow is the real key to effectiveness, creativity and sheer joy in your work. In flow, you have total concentration, time flies and you know you are...
The Happiness Formula
A bit of science: Happiness = S+C+V. S is your set range: the way you were born. Some of us are born a bit more grumpy, some a bit more cheerful. It maybe counts for 50% of your long term happiness. C is for circumstances, i.e. climate, wealth, health, marital status,...
Happiness & long life: wishful thinking or reality?
Wanting to improve your happiness may seem self-indulgent. Actually it’s a life saver. Studies show that happiness has a strong impact on how long you live, it could be 8 years more, and protects you against illness. This is comparable to the benefits of not smoking....
100 Lessons on Happiness in 100 words or less
How happy would you say you were yesterday? How happy do you want to be tomorrow? How can you work to be happier in life and work? Good positive emotions like happiness are important because they increase our chances of being more successful and healthy. Happiness!...
10 Lessons on Surviving Change
We often forget that ‘good’ change – the type we choose for ourselves can add to stress levels just as much as changes perceived as ‘bad’. Moving house, getting married, having children are usually on the good list – activities we have consciously chosen. Yet they...
Averil was on BBC West Midlands radio discussing positivity.
According to Noel Edmonds, in the long run, negative emotions can lead to illness, and even cancer. What does Averil think about this? Listen to this quick recording to gain more insight into this topic.