Happiness

What Goes Around Comes Around

On some days of operating a business we are hard pressed to think good thoughts. The very act of doing good stimulates the thoughts that contribute to your mental health...

Take a Moment to Worry

Decide to live a happy life. Make every moment, every action and every event contribute to implementing that decision. The person dedicated to happiness can yield to brief and occasional moments of worry...

What's the Worst Thing That Could Happen?

When facing a decision, ask yourself "What's the worst thing that could happen?"

Life is Only Ten Percent of What Happens

Life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it. - Football coach Lou Holtz. In business, what appears to be misfortune can be transformed into an opportunity...

Keep Wisdom Top-of-Mind

We see quotations, advice in articles and these maxims almost daily. How can we translate this inflow into our daily lives?

Live With More 'Eu' and less 'Dis'

Stress can be divided into two types: positive and negative...

Happy Minutes Accumulate into a Happy Life

What do we managers do when faced with an overwhelming task? We break it down into more manageable parts. Likewise, we can apply this technique to living a happy life...

Influence is a Subtle Form of Power

Influence is a form of power that is able to produce an effect without noticeable exertion of force or direct command. Positive influence stirs the emotions and logic of our minds to produce positive results in ourselves and others...

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Feel Good List No. 1

Plan to do one or more each day, continue until they become your lifestyle...

Feel Good List No. 2

Copy and You're Second Best

When you take over from an effective, popular manager you may be tempted to carry on with the same management style. This is not always a good strategy...

Act Fast When You're Not the Smartest

Some people have superior insight and can grasp the essence of a problem or opportunity quicker than most others. If you're one of the others don't despair, if you can't think fast you can always act fast...

Release Pent-up Emotions With Your Tongue

Share your problems with someone and you are apt to get the response, "That's nothing wait 'til I tell you what happened to me." Just talking, in itself, is a healthy exercise because your perspective on your own emotional concerns often changes while you are revealing your feelings to someone else...

Visualize Yourself as a Hammer

When you visualize yourself as a hammer, everything else will appear to be a nail...

Will Yourself to Laugh

Laughter is one of the best ways to relieve stress, and it's a great technique to add to your stress management routine...

The Autonomy Formula

We received this valuable bit of wisdom from a clinical psychologist, H. D. Johns, who practices with Transactional Analysis...

Visit Your Reflection Consultant

It seems inherent in our human nature to blame others. If you aspire to live on a higher plane of mental health, a mirror can be the simplest solution...

Snore and You Sleep Alone

You're normal if you always claim that you never snore! We all have annoying habits, try reducing your list of annoying habits...

Feed Your Mind Properly

The idea of nutrition for your thoughts being similar to food supplements for your body, is not new...

Knowledge is Power Only When Applied

Knowledge is similar to other things in our lives, if we don't use it we lose it. It seems we must strike a balance between the acquisition of knowledge and putting into action that which we have learned...

Plug Your Ears When...

Feeding your mind with happy and productive inputs results in a happy and productive life...

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Know Your Stress Signs

Knowing the early signs of stress is similar to knowing the early signs of a cold infection. Early treatment is best...

Getting Enough Sleep - Part 1

Sleep patterns are disturbed by such business activities as traveling and networking. Getting enough sleep is essential for a manager...

Sleep Time is a Stress Symptom

If you enjoy the luxury of awaking each morning without the aid of an alarm clock, you can use the clock as an accurate measurement of any stress from the previous day...

Is Your Vacation Desire a Stress Symptom?

A burning desire for frequent vacations could be a symptom for some form of sublimated stress...

Reduce Stress with a Dumb-Dumb Box

One method for "formalizing" a change of activity to reduce stress is the installation of a "Dumb-Dumb Box" in your workplace...

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"Calmness is Power" - James Allen

If you sincerely believe calmness is power and achieving calmness is your goal, then, how do you acquire it? James Allen pointed to the path...

All the Water in the Ocean Can't Sink a Ship...

... unless it gets inside. We have control over our reactions to catastrophes. Bad things happen. Some we can prevent while many are beyond our control...

Humility is a Sign of Self-Confidence

If humility is the sign of self-confidence, arrogance is most likely a sign of the opposite - lack of self-confidence...

Follow Dr. Coue to Greater Success

In the 1920's there was a Dr. Emile Coue urging people to improve their lives by reciting, "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better..."

Memory Loss. It's All in Your Mind

My informal research has revealed a large number of people who moan about loss of memory, as they grow older, were people who never developed a good system for recall...

Crying Over Spilt Milk is Unhealthy

"Don't cry over spilt milk" or "You can't saw sawdust" are two of the many sayings for reminding us that we cannot change the past...

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Voluntary Nervous Breakdown (VNB)

A VNB is a technique for simulating a real Nervous Breakdown. Recognizing when its time for a VNB can be an important tool for maintaining your mental health...

Tips on Managing a VNB

Various tips on how to manage your Voluntary Nervous Breakdown...

Disallow Obnoxious Behavior From Your Customers

Obnoxious people can spoil your day. They can also prevent employees from enjoying their work. Make a clear policy stating employees are not required to accept bad behavior from customers...

Organize Your Happiness

Just as Benjamin Franklin organized his efforts for improving his "virtues," you can organize your self-improvement toward a happier life...

Maintain an "In the Event of My Death" File

This is especially applicable to the well-organized businessperson who takes care of things. To aid those you leave behind, maintain a file including a full set of instructions for when you die...

Stay on Top of Your Business Not in It

Are you running your business or is it running you? Take a good hard look at your schedule...

You're not Doing Enough if You Don't Have Moments of Doubt

We first heard this expressed as, "If you don't have moments of doubt, you're not doing it right." We questioned the wisdom of this statement because it did not reflect our experiences...

Curtail Your Re-visits to Misfortune

Finding yourself falling into the same traps time and time again? Would you like to avoid coming out on the 'short end of the stick' after negotiations?

Leave a Trail of Breadcrumbs

Whenever you have a feeling that you are not accomplishing anything, try listing the tasks you have completed throughout the day...

When You Find a Stumbling Block - Use it as a Stepping Stone

It's not easy to look for the silver lining in clouds of doom. Nor is it easy to convince yourself that adversities develop character...

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