“Don’t Forget to Fall In Love With Yourself First” Before I started this course, I began to brainstorm and had quite the collage of thoughts going through my head. Can you teach an old dog new tricks? If so, how? With so many different predictions, I didn’t...
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball Before taking the class I was thinking that this class is going to be about being “fufu happy”. The kind of happy that is...
“The Mind is Everything, What You Think You Become” When I saw the course title Positive Psychology, I thought, man I need this course. Knowing psychology is the science of the mind, I felt I would learn how to control my thoughts, which will put me in a better place...
“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” ― Emily Dickinson Hope and reframing Obstacles I assumed Postive Psychology would teach us how to have happy thoughts and nothing else. I figured...
“Be in charge of your own happiness” Before taking this course I thought about how much I hoped to learn some new ways to keep myself happy. An Ah-Ha moment for me was learning about happiness and how to focus on mindfulness. I did not realize how many factors...
Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream —John Lennon Before Taking Positive Psychology, my thoughts about the course were that I wondered what on earth positive psychology meant. I thought that the course was going to be very analytical, and based more on...
The mind is everything. What you think you become ~Buddha Focusing on Strengths Instead of Negativity Before taking Positive Psychology, my thoughts about the course were exactly what the name of the course stated—Positive Psychology. I expected it to be a bubbly...
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand we listen to reply.” Using what I learned I thought Positive Psychology was about having a positive outlook on life, and how to deal with things in a positive manner. I know that...
NLimits, like fear, is often an illusion.— Michael Jordan Introduction to a new journey Before taking the course Positive Psychology I was not so sure what to expect. I thought positive psychology was the same as positive thinking. I realized that positive psychology...
“Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self-expression is a function of responsibility” —Werner Erhard Before Taking Positive Psychology, my thoughts about the course were: How can...