Unconscious motivation plays a substantial role in how we respond to challenges. Find out how much.
One of the keys to happiness -- as well as productivity and effectiveness at work -- is finding work you love, that you’re passionate about. Work you want to do, instead of just have to do.
We all know that getting a good night's sleep is good for our general health and well-being. But new research is highlighting a more surprising benefit of good sleep: more feelings of gratitude for relationships.
Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! The tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to the few who succeed.
Following your passion can be a tough thing... but figuring out what that passion is can be even more elusive.
It is a beautiful thing to create, to produce, to go out there in the world and make a contribution. But it is just as important that we teach others to create and produce, that we encourage them...
How much of your day is spent doing administrative tasks, and not creating or doing other important work?
A reader recently asked, “How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!”
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
Let’s say you have an agenda, and every time one of you wandered off the agenda, you forced yourself to get back on it. Would the conversation be better or worse, with a set outcome?
The paradox of happiness is that chasing it may actually make us less happy, a Stanford researcher says.
Do you have dreams you want to pursue, but never seem to have the time because of the twin demands of work and family?
I make a living doing what I love, and doing what you love for a living is fantastic.
You win some, you lose some. Such are life's ups and downs.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
While some psychologists still argue that people perform better when they do something because they want to, research suggests we shouldn't even make that distinction.
If you accept a job, a relationship, or a lifestyle that you merely tolerate -- but don't appreciate -- you’re putting other concerns ahead of your own happiness.
People who watch funny videos on the internet at work aren't necessarily wasting time.
Can money make us happy if we spend it on the right purchases?
Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out and undertake new goals in life and this reinforces positive emotions, say researchers who examined the connections between desirable characteristics, life successes and well-being of over 275,000 people.
We all know marketing is key to small business survival and success, but it can be overwhelming to know what to do to be an effective marketer.
Canada’s literary celebrities struggle to find a happy medium between glad-handing with their public and craving the solitude that the writing life affords them.
Some argue that happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Most self-help books on the subject offer tips on how to maximize one’s bliss, but one study suggests that moderate happiness may be preferable to full-fledged elation.
What if you currently live a very comfortable lifestyle and you have a lot of assets? How can you justify running off to do what truly makes you happy if it might put all your current assets at risk?
Gretchen Rubin is a published author who wrote 'The Happiness Project' -- a memoir about how test-driving every principle, tip, theory, and scientific study she could find -- whether from Aristotle or St Therese or Martin Seligman or Oprah.
I don’t know about you, but I want more than just security. I want to live, not simply survive.
Everyone is essentially self-employed -- and that even if you're an employee, you should think of yourself as the President of your own personal services corporation.
If you want to make a difference in the world, the single most important thing you can do is consciously and deliberately choose to do work that you are passionate about.
A survey by the Pew Foundation which found that 71 percent of Americans view small business more favorably than any other institutions, including religious organizations.