Shawn Achor Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. Shawn has become one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. His research on happiness made the cover ofHarvard Business Review, his TED talk is one of the most popular all time with over 4 million views, and his lecture airing on PBS has been seen by millions. Shawn teaches for the Advanced Management Program at Wharton Business School, and collaborates on research with Yale and Columbia University. In 2007, Shawn founded GoodThink, Inc. Shawn advises several projects related to spreading happiness, including BetterUP, an online training community where members are coached by experts to realize their full potential at work. Shawn graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and earned a Masters degree from Harvard Divinity School in Christian and Buddhist ethics.
17 Productive Ways To Spend 5 Minutes Instead Of Checking Your Email (Again) The ubiquity of smart phones means we never lack for a way to spend time. Stuck waiting for the elevator for 30 seconds? Next thing you know you’ve got your phone out of your pocket, and you’re deleting newsletters you can’t remember subscribing to. Cleaning out the inbox feels productive, but in the grand scheme of things it’s not all that fun. Nor is it accomplishing much. At the end of your life, no one’s going to talk about your pristine inbox. 1. Pull it up, read what you’ve got on it, and start adding. 2. Yes, you’ll need to use your headphones, but jamming out to Katy Perry for three minutes and 30 seconds will probably leave you feeling more energized than deleting marketing emails for a similar quantity of time. 3. Want to read more? 4. Tell them you’re thinking about them. 5. Jotting down a sentence here and there on specific moments of awesomeness can help you remember that your life is, in fact, awesome. 6. 7. 8. 9. What can you get rid of? 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
Masculinity: Part 2 | HeartSupport “Does she ever remember you?” L.A. leans back, takes a sip of his beer, pauses, and stares off into the distance. He’s remembering something he’s long forgotten. I repeat myself and break his trance. “Your wife…..does she ever remember who you are?” This breaks L.A. out of the trance. “Shit no man…..it’s been…….6 years? L.A. leans back again, removes his hat and scratches his bald head. “Soooooo….never? “Not even once…….” L.A.’s wife has Dementia. His wife lives in a nursing home because he is too old to take care of her. L.A. lives a modern day version of the popular movie “The Notebook” by Nicholas Sparks. The truth is, L.A.’s wife passed away a little over a year ago after she had become so vegetative, she couldn’t eat food without choking and required a feeding tube. She never remembered her husband……. And yet….for 8 years this man spent every waking hour pouring his life out for his bride staying true to the vow “for better or for worse, in sickness and in health”. Yes.
Six Ways to Allow Your Child to Become a Responsible Adult | Evolutionary Parenting | Breastfeeding and Sleeping Arrangements - Science and History in Parenting By Tracy G. Cassels Lately there seem to be many parents yelling about how much they hate our current generation of entitled children or young adults who can’t function on their own and don’t take responsibility for their actions. They seem to argue that it’s parents who are responsive that are a problem, something I’ve heard first hand (because didn’t you know that letting my child breastfeed at 2 means she’ll be a spoiled, rotten brat??). They often push for things like bullying being okay or leaving your child to cry because the real world is harsh: The problem is that we just haven’t been harsh enough with our kids and that’s why they can’t cope. Allow your baby to be totally dependent on you. Allow your child to grow into his/her independence. If they have the secure foundation of responsive parenting in their early years, they know they can come to you if they run into problems and they most likely will. Allow your child to play, and play rough (if she/he wants).
Customer Reviews: The Mountain Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeve Tee Why smart women go for jerks Tim* and I met at an economics class in university. Though we didn’t know it at the time, two things would bring us together by the end of the semester – our near-identical timetables and a mutual fascination with Adam Smith. For him, it was Smith the economist – author of Wealth of Nations and the father of modern economics. For me, it was the newspaper astrologist – author of the lesser known (but no less powerfully titled) Saturn, Fatal Attraction. Smith, the astrologer Smith, the economist Growing up, I looked forward to reading my weekly horoscopes the way old people would lust after their new TV guides. But on the Sunday before my first week of uni, Smith offered no hint that I was about to get into my first real relationship. Advertisement Eventually, I realised that the other Adam actually had much better advice when it comes to navigating the nuances of love. Not according to Smith. After the first semester, Tim and I went on to share many more economics classes.
Glastonbury Goddess Temple - Path of the Lover, Brotherhood of Rhiannon Path of the Lover, Brotherhood of Rhiannon is part of male initiation mysteries and self development work. A soul-quest for he who dances the sacred dance of the Beloved, the Horned God loving the Goddess. He who manifests this place of surrender and power in all his relationships, inner and outer. This year-long group will be a space in which to meet as brothers, to share, explore, shadow hunt and help each other amplify the core male energy which is the Lover God in every man. The Path of the Lover empowerment journey is held from the place of the Devine Feminine, the Goddess of the centre, whose consort, the Horned God, dances in his different aspects or in the archetypes within all men, and who She magnetizes by Her conscious surrendered loving presence. These teachings are based on the Priestess of Rhiannon training. 15th Dec 2012 : 1st House House of the Ancestors and of Memory Venue: TBA 26th January 2013: 2nd House House of the Wild Youth and of Vision Venue: The Camino, Glastonbury
The middle class: An American tragedy, in numbers By Stephen B. Young Something’s gone wrong with America. The canary-in-the-coal-mine warning is the collapse of trust in our institutions. As trust in politicians has declined, they’ve spent ever more dollars per vote to get elected. Americans are not happy. Confidence in our res publica is on the wane because our middle class has been in decline. America, uniquely, has always been a middle-class country — no aristocracy, no peasantry, and later, under industrialization, to the great frustration of Marxists, no proletariat. The Puritans of New England and the Quakers of Pennsylvania came from the rising middle class and early capitalists of England, Scotland and Wales. The importance of a robust middle class is primarily political. The American Civil War was fought by a middle-class industrialized North against a Southern gentry aping aristocratic lifestyles and ruling an enslaved peasantry. The left’s dismissive label for our kind of society is “bourgeois.”
23 Things To Do Instead Of Getting Engaged Before You’re 23 | Wander Onwards As 2013 wraps up, I’ve been noticing more and more people getting engaged and/or married under the age of 23. I get it. It’s cold outside… you want to cuddle and talk about your feelings… life after graduation is a tough transition… so why not just cut to the chase and get married, right? It’s hip. It’s cool. You get to wear clothing that wouldn’t normally be socially acceptable at the dive bar you frequent with the $5 beers. Oh wait. The divorce rate for young couples is more than twice the national average. “How to budget for your prom AND your wedding in the same year!” “What’s HOT: Kids raising Kids.” “Why your Mom doesn’t really know what she’s talking about.” Because at the age of 22, I have no idea who I am, what I’m doing, and who I’ll be doing it with for the next year… let alone for the rest of my life. Some day, I want to get married too. What inspired me to scribble down my feelings (so many feelings!) I can’t help but feel like a lot of these unions are a cop-out. Sure. 1. 2. 3.