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Posts by Dr. Timothy Sharp
In my previous blog posting I provided a list of tips that I hope might help at least some of you enjoy more happiness during the coming festive season. Several days after writing that post I thought there was at least one more important point to make...and that's the need for most, if not all of us, to make time to refresh and recuperate. In Australia we're coming up to what most people consider the...
12/6/2007 4:17:24 PM
The holiday season is one that most of us look forward to but for many, it can also be a time of stress. Although most of us simply want to relax there can be many things to do and many people to see (some of whom we might not even want to spend time with)! With this in mind I'm happy to provide the following holiday tips which I hope will help you experience more happiness this festive season. - Keep...
12/4/2007 4:19:59 PM
This morning I came across the following interesting quote you might at first not think has anything to do with happiness... "There can be economy only where there is efficiency." Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Statesman and Literary Figure So what's the link to happiness? Well here's my modified version of Disraeli's quote... There can be happiness only where there is discipline! At The Happiness...
11/28/2007 1:30:40 PM
Contemporary research into happiness and wellbeing has explored numerous variables, searching always for those factors that lead to greater happiness and the experience of more positive emotions. One of the more interesting variables, or traits that seems to lead to higher levels of happiness is "curiosity"...how interesting! Technically, positive psychology researchers divide curiosity into two components:...
11/21/2007 8:06:04 PM
I recently found this interesting quote ... It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. - Claude Bernard, 1813-1878, French Physiologist ...and in response, I offer my happiness interpretation: It is what we think we know about happiness that often prevents us from being happy. Dr. Happy What do you think you know about happiness? What do you think brings happiness versus...
11/15/2007 9:14:29 AM
The following posting was sent out to my makingchanges.com.au weekly tip list but is, I think, just as relevant to readers of this blog as there's no doubt that happiness is at least partly due to exploring what's possible and striving to reach our potential. I hope you enjoy it... Happy monday morning and welcome back, again, to making changes' weekly tips. I'd like, today. to share with you a story......
11/12/2007 8:19:42 PM
There's much I can write about my favourite topic, happiness, and there's much I have written in my personal Dr. Happy Blog and in my books. But at the end of the day, the most important thing I can tell you is to be happy now! To many of us succomb to what I've come to call the tyranny of when! That is, saying "I'll be happy when...(insert something like...when I have more money, a better job, a faster...
11/8/2007 1:08:31 PM
Lately I've been thinking and talking to others a lot about my new concept - happiness by elimination. You see I frequently receive positive feedback about the ideas I promote via The Happiness Institute but if there's one "negative" comment I/we get its that people think they don't have time to implement the principles of positive psychology we recommend. Its not that people don't think they'll work...
11/5/2007 8:00:00 AM
My daughter went to a party on the weekend that primarily involved ice skating. Now a few of the girls were, apparently, quite competent but most, including my daughter, had tried skating a few times and knew what they were doing but were by no means expert! Anyway, when talking to my daughter afterwards she explained that one of the first things they did was have a quick lesson in which among other...
11/4/2007 7:00:00 AM
Two separate incidents lead to the thoughts behind this happiness blog posting. One, involved a woman who lives nearby my house who gets around with the help of a guide-dog. The other, was yet another thought provoking tip from Lou Tice at the Pacific Institute. Anyway, all that's really relevant here in this happiness context is the following question...to whom do you look for guidance when it comes...
10/31/2007 7:00:00 AM