Understanding the power of positivity and resilience I had the pleasure of delivering my Resilience for Performance workshop at the weekend to an audience of people with considerable experience in self-development. One of the most important things to come out of the...
Subjective Choice Each week, I make a point to revisit each of the topics from the broad based field in positive psychology, pluck one subject from the treasure trove of terms I’ve asked students to memorize, that researchers pour over, or practitioners turn into a...
Being a part of the Positive Psychology movement and teaching the course, I am notoriously teased and questioned about Positive Psychology. “Should we call you the happy doc?”…“are we all going to sit around and hold hands, and sing?” While I am grateful that I am a...
“The discomfort in our lives is an invitation to change.”- Joe Hoare You know the feeling It starts as an uncomfortable tightness in your belly during one more inconsequential work meeting during which your mind wanders to what you can possibly make for dinner using...
Charles Duhigg, in his book The Power of Habit talks about what he calls “The Habit Loop” and explains that every habit is a three step process. The first step is a trigger. A habit starts with a signal; something that triggers your brain to go into automatic mode....
Where are we going? Clarity is lucid. There is no greater self-indulgence than that of those who believe that they are the only ones who know a subject. There is no greater life lesson lost than that from those who argue they are the only experts. We’ve read vast...
I never got to read. Of course I read academic papers and the readings that are required for my degree. I went over the news and whatever analysis of it I could squeeze into my day. I skimmed through Facebook pages and other modes of virtual connection that left me...
Compassion in action When we’ve become who we need to be, it is time for us to turn toward helping others. In our world today, anyone with a television, radio, newspaper or social media will know that we are watching people flee for their lives in more than one place...
A question of change Can people change or “Are we wasting our time with all these efforts to change ourselves, or is it really possible?” I was asked this last week during one of my mammal-brain zoo tours. I had just explained neuroplasticity, and the limits of...
We all wear tattoos. Most are invisible to the world. There are some marks on our lives that simply can’t be removed by wishing them away. There are some marks in our lives that we hope never leave us. The hard truth about human pain or joy is that though it can, in...