Are you putting a man on the moon?
There’s a story that you may have heard concerning JFK walking through NASA’s headquarters. He was asking all the engineers and astronauts what they were up to. On his way out, he met the cleaner (who...
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Does retirement make you fat?
Yes – according to a study from the Institute for Health Policy Studies titled “The Effect of Retirement on Weight”. They studied a group of almost 38,000 retirees and concluded that retirement is...
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Happiness at Work Infographic
60%+ of People Are Proud of Their Job… A place we spend soooo much of our time and yet the one thing we tend to moan about the most, or so I thought. This latest research completed by City & Guilds...
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Volunteering helps you live happier
More and more research tells us that volunteering increases all measure of happiness, life satisfaction, self-esteem, one’s sense of control over life and better physical health. Some research has...
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Is happiness good for work?
In our book we summarise the research we had access to but I just came across a book by Shawn Achor which analyzes the body of research conducted over the last decade regarding how happier employees...
View ArticleWalk and talk at work
In the UK we have an expression to the effect that you can wait hours for a bus and then you get 3 coming in succession. I felt this during this week. I posted on my portfoliocareers.net site about...
View ArticleHow to become a Unicorn: The Happy Secret
The pursuit of Happiness is the one thing we all have in common. But how often do you feel happy? Every day? Once a week? Every month? Never? Do you have a grand plan for living happier? Are you...
View ArticleLearning how to manage your Chimp: A skill for happier living
Why is it that we can often act irrationally? Why do we say we want one thing but do another? Why do we fly off the handle and say sorry afterwards? For instance: We don’t like our jobs but we are to...
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