May 2012
9 posts
Happiness Languages
Language is expression, meaning, and purpose. Language shapes our narratives. It is the essence of culture and the core of identity and destiny. Our Happiness Language is the unique and dynamic combination of practices that make our happiness possible. From the research we now know that the prime happiness practices are appreciation, generosity, interest, lightness, and easy. Each of these form...
The language of happiness
Language is expression, meaning, and purpose. Language shapes our narratives. It is the essence of culture and the core of identity and destiny. Our Happiness Language is the unique and dynamic combination of practices that make our happiness possible. From the research we now know that the prime happiness practices are appreciation, generosity, interest, lightness, and easy. Each of these form...
Your Happiness Language
Language is expression, meaning, and purpose. Language shapes our narratives. It is the essence of culture and the core of identity and destiny. Our Happiness Language is the unique and dynamic combination of practices that make our happiness possible. From the research we now know that the prime happiness practices are appreciation, generosity, interest, lightness, and easy. Each of these stream...
Happiness Languages
Language is expression, meaning, and purpose. Language shapes our narratives. It is the essence of culture and the core of identity and destiny. Our Happiness Language is the unique and dynamic combination of practices that make our happiness possible. From the research we now know that the prime happiness practices are appreciation, generosity, interest, lightness, and easy. Each of these form...
Happiness Languages
Language is expression, meaning, and purpose. Language shapes our narratives. It is the essence of culture and the core of identity and destiny. Our Happiness Language is the unique and dynamic combination of practices that make our happiness possible. Our happiness practices are our happiness languages. From the research we now know that the prime happiness practices are appreciation,...
Announcing the Happiness Workshops & Profile
Announcing two exciting new developments here at TheJoyOfThriving.com: the Happiness Workshops and the Happiness Profile There are Introductory and Advanced Workshops, covering the new compelling happiness research and practical applications. And the Happiness Profile is a 50-item inventory that gives you a profile of opportunities to cultivate your happiness practices. Email...
Announcing the Workshops & Profile
Announcing two exciting new developments here at TheJoyOfThriving.com: the Happiness Workshops and the Happiness Profile There are Introductory and Advanced Workshops, covering the new compelling happiness research and practical applications. And the Happiness Profile is a 50-item inventory that gives you a profile of opportunities to cultivate your happiness practices. Email...
The Happiness Workshop
The Happiness Workshop is an engaging and sustainable discovery of the power and practices of happiness. It is based on the compelling research and practical approaches presented in “The Joy of Thriving” (DesigningLife Books 2012). It is a hands-on and interactive learning experience customized to any group that makes happiness more accessible than ever. The workshop addresses several topics...
The business of happiness
This whole business of positioning happiness at the core of our success indices is grounded in the principle that happier people do better in life and work. These research evidence tips overwhelmingly in favor of this perspective. Here are 10 qualities of people who are happier through the five prime practices of happiness: appreciation, generosity, interest, lightness, and easy. They are...
March 2012
4 posts
Can We Become Happier?
When I recently asked this question to a sample of the happiest people in the world, they resonated with a resounding yes. It is their experience that happiness is a practice that can be learned and cultivated as a habit. For these people at the higher end of the well-being continuum, happiness is an action we engage. It’s about doing more than having. These are the perspectives gleaned from the...
The Happiness Imperative for Leaders
We now have evidence that happier people lead to higher levels of passion and engagement at work. Happier people also lead to happier customers and clients. And happiness at work spreads into the rest of people’s health, relationships, life, and well-being. Leaders in organizations, formal and informal, are uniquely positioned to cultivate a happiness-friendly organizational culture. Life in the...
The Happiness Imperative for Leaders
We now have evidence that happier people lead to higher levels of passion and engagement at work. Happier people also lead to happier customers and clients. And happiness at work spreads into the rest of people’s health, relationships, life, and well-being. Leaders in organizations, formal and informal, are uniquely positioned to cultivate a happiness-friendly organizational culture. Life in the...
The New Shift in Community Happiness Indicators
Our metaphors for community growth indicators are in an important transition. We’re talking more about cultivating communities than building them because we’re moving from the lens of economics to the lens of eudainomics. Eudaimonia is Greek for the happiness of well-being. Eudainomics is the domain of well-being. In this context, cultivating becomes a more apt metaphor than building when it...
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