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22 Things Happy People Do Differently. Happiness is not something ready made.

22 Things Happy People Do Differently

It comes from your own actions. – Dalai Lama There are two types of people in the world: those who choose to be happy, and those who choose to be unhappy. Contrary to popular belief, happiness doesn’t come from fame, fortune, other people, or material possessions. Rather, it comes from within. The richest person in the world could be miserable while a homeless person could be right outside, walking around with a spring in every step. The question is: how do they do that? It’s quite simple. 1.

Happy people understand that it’s better to forgive and forget than to let their negative feelings crowd out their positive feelings. 2. Did you know that it has been scientifically proven that being kind makes you happier? 3. The word “problem” is never part of a happy person’s vocabulary. 4. There’s a popular saying that goes something like this: “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have.” Recovering Lazyholic l Photography & Stuff by Erin Hanson.

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12 smart anti-procrastination strategies. Procrastination torpedoes productivity, harms your self-esteem, and is the source of massive amounts of stress.

12 smart anti-procrastination strategies

So why do we do it and why, oh why, is it so hard to overcome? Social scientist, professor and author of the marvelous book The Procrastination Equation, Piers Steel, PhD, explains that procrastination occurs when our logical planning brain, the prefrontal cortex, has made an intention to do something in the future but that plan gets overridden by our more powerful, impulsive and emotional brain, the limbic system, because it has a competing desire. Dr. Steel has actually developed a calculation that predicts our likelihood to procrastinate, which involves your expectations about whether or not you can actually complete the task, the importance you place on the task, and how long you have to complete the task. But probably the most important driver of your likelihood to procrastinate is your overall level of impulsiveness. Social courage: How to Make Friends when People Make you Nervous. I’m walking into the university cafeteria, nervously scanning the seating area.

Social courage: How to Make Friends when People Make you Nervous

Where are they? I can’t see a single familiar face. My heart sinks. And then it starts beating – fast. I glance around again and decide to take a quick walk around. The café is full of people, all chatting lively. And of course no one says that. I take out my phone as if to prove that I’m not a loner like that voice in my head is telling me. After walking around the room once without finding the people I’m supposed to meet, I seek refuge in the bathroom. And yet I decide to get out there one more time. I walk out of the bathroom and suddenly – there they are.

I walk up and introduce myself. And this is where the real fun (read: sweating, beating heart, nervous laughing and shaking) begins. Making friends and meeting new people does not come easily to me. ~ FIT & SELF-CONFIDENT ~ Quel est votre style de leadership ? Le cycle du changement de Hudson. Le changement : processus permanent à l’extérieur, mais aussi à l’intérieur de nous.

Le cycle du changement de Hudson

Frederic Hudson, coach et professeur à l’université de Columbia propose de voir notre vie comme une succession de cycles constitués chacun de 4 phases : un lancement, une désynchronisation, un désengagement puis un renouveau. Connaître ce modèle permet de mieux comprendre ce que nous vivons dans nos transitions personnelles et professionnelles. Un chapitre de vie professionnelle peut être une projet, une mission, un job etc. Dans notre expérience du changement, Frederic Hudson décrit les 4 phases suivantes, qui se succèdent avec des allers-retours possibles. Identifier où nous en sommes aujourd’hui, dans quelle phase, nous permet de mieux comprendre ce que nous expérimentons, et de faire les meilleurs choix pour répondre à notre projet de vie. Phase 1 – Alignement – « C’est parti ! C’est la phase de lancement, une phase dynamique de construction. Kind over matter. Love Work Now – Career Design with Jana Schuberth.

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Love Work Now – Career Design with Jana Schuberth

For some reason you are at a career crossroads. And you have been looking and thinking and thinking and searching but you just cannot find a ‘job’ that ticks all the boxes. None of them light your fire. 10 Tips on How to Feel Beautiful Every Day. This morning, I got a request for this post.

10 Tips on How to Feel Beautiful Every Day

I haven’t written much about the topic of beauty before, but I felt really compelled to write this post immediately. Beauty it is such a complicated concept because we all have such different views on what beauty feels and looks like. My idea of beauty might be completely different from yours. Write the truth. How writing can help you heal. I may have a slight office supply addiction.

Write the truth. How writing can help you heal

(Which is a major understatement). For years, I have collected notebooks. Gorgeous leather-bound notebooks with heavy paper. Cheap composition books that look classic and nostalgic.