Characteristics Of A Truly Good Person Kind, helpful, caring, understanding, patient, and loving are some of the words that come to mind when asked to list the qualities of a good person. One usually knows a person is good by what they do. We never remember them angry or holding grudges for anyone. 1) They Can Never Stay Mad At You, Like NEVER They are truly a magical being, always forgiving and forgetting one’s mistakes. 2) They Are Like A“Fun Booster” In A More Gloomy Or Dull Situation Yes, especially when you’re feeling blue. 3) When You Succeed, Their Happiness For You Is Completely LEGIT They’ll be the first one to demand a car ride in your new car or ask for a treat out when you get that promotion. 4) You Will Never Notice A Frown On Their Face. No wonder! 5) Such A Gentle Heart Yet, So Brave That’s why never ever break their heart. 6) They Are Never Nagging Or Grumbling About Their Own Problems And that’s what makes them the best company to have. 7) Helping And Caring For Others Are Like All They Have Been Born For And bam!
Don't Give Up on Your Resolutions: 5 Easy Tricks Guaranteed to Build Good Habits How are those New Year's Resolutions going? Not so well? If you're afraid to answer, that's OK. It turns out it's really tough to develop good habits. But there are ways you can trick yourself into forming new routines, and many of them start by making small changes around your home. 1. 2. 21 Days of Sticky Notes They say it takes 21 days to build a habit. 3. 4. 5. (Image credits: Nicole Crowder; Life Without Bread and Butter; Lift)
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Positive psychology in the workplace Implementing positive psychology in the workplace means creating an environment that is relatively enjoyable and productive. This also means creating a work schedule that does not lead to emotional and physical distress. Background[edit] According to information provided by The United States Department of Labor, “In 2009 employed persons worked an average of 7.5 hours on the days they worked, which were mostly weekdays. Major theoretical approaches[edit] Martin E.P. Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers developed Humanistic Psychology that focuses on the positive potential of people and on helping people to reach their full potential.[5] Peter Warr is highly noted for his early work on work well being. Demand control model[edit] Robert A. Job demands-resources[edit] The job demands-resources model (JD-R) is an expansion of the DCM and is founded on the same principle that high job demands and high job resources produce employees with more positive work attitudes. Job characteristics model[edit]
this. | Why inspirational quotes can do more harm than good The following article is written by happiness expert and psychologist Dr Melissa Weinberg from Deakin University’s School of Psychology. It seems everyone is hating on celebrity chef Pete Evans lately for dishing out misinformed, and potentially harmful dietary advice. Vulnerable people can be easily fooled by his charm and confidence, and by the apparent simplicity of the messages he promotes. Well, it’s not fair that he cops all the flack. This doesn’t just happen in the food industry. It happens in all professional industries. So this is for all the people out there who post false, misleading, and potentially harmful mental health advice on social media. Here we go: No it can’t. Also, what’s a ‘small positive thought’? Don’t. If someone has wronged you, you have the right to be angry. Nope, no it’s not. If we’re talking about wasting time, it’s actually happiness that can sometimes make us less productive. Positive affirmations are great – if they are in fact ‘affirmations’.
The Aha! Challenge: Using brain teasers to understand eureka moments - Science News - ABC News You know that feeling when you've been grappling with a problem and finally a solution just arrives in your brain? That's an "aha moment", and you've got to it through the process of "insight", a problem solving technique. Insight is characterised by a sense of confusion and feeling stuck, followed by a sudden realisation — the aha moment — when it all just falls into place. It's a process that relies on your relaxed brain, in contrast to the step-by-step process of logical problem solving, and it's usually accompanied by pleasure and surprise. Aha experiences are often special moments in our lives, and most of us have a story about one. But they're also of great interest to psychology researchers keen to put their power to positive use. "The aha experience has been shown to be helpful for learning, memory, and motivation," said Margaret Webb, a psychology researcher at the University of Melbourne. Despite it being more than 2000 years since Archimedes had his 'eureka!' The Aha! Confused?
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People Altucher Confidential Posted by James Altucher I’m pretty mediocre. I’m ashamed to admit it. I’m not even being sarcastic or self-deprecating. I’ve started a bunch of companies. That said, all people should be so lucky. If you want to get rich, sell your company, have time for your hobbies, raise a halfway decent family (with mediocre children, etc), and enjoy the sunset with your wife on occasion, here are some of my highly effective recommendations. - Procrastination - In between the time I wrote the last sentence and the time I wrote this one I played (and lost) a game of chess. Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing. Try to figure out why you are procrastinating. Procrastination could also be a strong sign that you are a perfectionist. [See also, "5 Great Things About Procrastination"] (phallic greatness: Elon Musk’s space rocket) - Zero-tasking - there’s a common myth that great people can multitask efficiently. It was a $90,000 gig.
The Paradox of Routine and Productivity — The Productivity Puzzle Parkinsons Law: How to complete tasks in optimal time Simply put the idea is work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. This means that if you give yourself two weeks to complete a four hour task then the task will psychologically become more complex and become more daunting so as to fill those two weeks. The time may not be filled with extra work per se, rather the stress and tension about having to get it done will increase. In order to avoid this trap you need to assign an optimal amount of time to complete a task in order to avoid this increase in complexity. This isn’t some kind of blackhat magic you use to get things done in no time at all. This is why some people work better with deadlines. Keep this in mind when planning your tasks. The Never Ending to-do list When you don’t prioritize your tasks everything seems crucial and important. The most productive people seem to always have 1 to 3 key prioritized tasks to complete before the day even starts. P.S.
The uses and abuses of 'happiness' The happiness 'movement' has the potential to transform society, but do its proponents know what they're doing? William Davies sets out four strands of the debate - philosophical, statistical, economical and psychological - and shows how confusion between them is hindering progress The launch of Action for Happiness last week generated yet more debate about the meaning and value of happiness. On top of the Office of National Statistics’ (ONS) ‘national debate’ on how to define and measure ‘national wellbeing’, one can scarcely open a newspaper nowadays without discovering more political, scientific or pseudo-scientific pronouncements about what does or doesn’t make us happy. In a nation as stubbornly curmudgeonly as Britain, it is no surprise to find that the cynics seem equally delighted to have discovered so much Californian chirpiness to grumble about, right here in their own backyard. There is no reason to dismiss any of this as a flash in the pan.
Happiness: 2nd Global Conference Connect Photodream Art Happiness 2nd Global Meeting: The Happiness Project Call for Presentations Monday 14th March –Wednesday 16th March 2016Budapest, Hungary ‘Happiness is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world’, said Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics. Is it merely a subjective feeling of wellbeing that can be brought about by pleasurable experiences, or is there rather more to it than that? Because happiness (and the lack of it) is of such central importance to the human condition, it is of great interest to a number of disciplines and practices. As we explore the manifold aspects of the concept of happiness, we encourage participants to think outside the limits of their own discipline, and to explore the implications for practice of the theories and perspectives that they espouse. Definitions of Happiness § what is happiness? Sources of Happiness Depictions of Happiness Wider Implications of Happiness Engendering Happiness
6 Ways Emotionally Intelligent People Deal With Toxic People Life can be pretty stressful at times. We have bills, appointments, overfilled schedules, and random unfortunate events which we have no control over. Then there’s the icing on the cake…toxic people. For many of us, we deal with toxic people on a daily basis and they can be difficult to avoid. Of course, it is never easy to deal with a toxic person. If you want to know how to have the upper hand when dealing with a toxic person, take it from someone who has experience. Here are 6 ways emotionally intelligent people deal with toxic people: 1. The most important thing you can do for yourself, is not participate in the madness. 2. It is essential to set boundaries. Emotionally intelligent people know that it is impossible to please everyone, and that it is okay to say ‘no.’ 3. Negativity follows toxic people around like a storm cloud of doom. Toxic people will try everything to get you to join in- even emotional manipulation. 4. 5. 6. By Raven Fon
11 Sleep Habits of Successful People Sleep is the best meditation. ~ Dalai Lama There are some people who just seem to have it all figured out. They manage their families, careers and responsibilities with graceful ease, and clean shirts. Have you ever wondered how these ’types’ manage to juggle so effortlessly, while your balls are seemingly crashing down around you? These types of people always get the promotion, win the race, don’t ever seem stressed, and eyes just follow them. What’s their secret? I know, and I’m going to tell you. It’s about getting the proper sleep. People who get enough sleep are successful, focused and happy. We need sleep to recharge our brains and bodies. In our busy society, sleep has become somewhat of a luxury. Guess what? Bad sleep habits cause our bodies to become worn. So ask yourself this: are you starting to resemble a zombie from World War Z? Sleep No-Nos: 1. Have your final meal about 3 hours before bedtime. 2. Caffeine is a stimulant and it keeps the body alert and energized. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2.
The Proven Power of Self Efficacy and How to Use It to Get Healthy Back in 2003 when I got my first job out of college I worked with this girl named Deb. Deb seemed to think her job description included telling everyone who would listen how miserable her life was on a daily basis. She complained about everything: her family, her friends, her boyfriend, her body, her job, her car, her cat. So one day we’re out to lunch with a few co-workers and Deb starts going off about something … don’t remember what exactly. I do, however, remember what this one guy Todd said in response to Deb’s little tirade. Todd [sarcastic, mocking tone]: “Wow, your life sure does suck.” Now we’re all sitting at the table with our mouths open waiting to see what will happen next. It was one of those situations where you knew something bad was about to go down … but you don’t dare look away. After a good 10 seconds of awkward silence, Deb got up, launched into an expletive-filled tirade that drew attention from everyone in the restaurant, and stormed out. It was epic. Turns out Mr. 1. 2.
Mindfulness (psychology) Mindfulness as a psychological concept is the focusing of attention and awareness, based on the concept of mindfulness in Buddhist meditation.[1] It has been popularised in the West by Jon Kabat-Zinn.[2] Despite its roots in Buddhism, mindfulness is often taught independently of religion.[3][4] Clinical psychology and psychiatry since the 1970s have developed a number of therapeutic applications based on mindfulness for helping people suffering from a variety of psychological conditions.[5] Several definitions of mindfulness have been used in modern psychology. According to various prominent psychological definitions, Mindfulness refers to a psychological quality that involves bringing one’s complete attention to the present experience on a moment-to-moment basis,[6] or involves paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally,[6] Bishop, Lau, and colleagues (2004)[8] offered a two-component model of mindfulness: