Working On Happiness

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Being vs. Doing

We are so caught up in the urgency of everything we have to do, and so caught up in our heads and what we think is important, that it is easy to fall into...

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Kindness

Never underestimate the impact kindness can have on other people. Simple and random acts of kindness, sympathy or connection can have a huge impact on someone who is suffering or simply needs support. “Everyone...

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Falling Up

Adversity, no matter what it is, doesn’t have the power to hit us as bad as we think it will.  As students we overestimate the power of a bad grade in a test. When...

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What We Have Inside

If you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice.  Why?  Simply because that is what it has inside. When something happens to you and is anger what comes out, that is what you have...

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Live Like a Dog

Dogs are some of the most cheerful creatures that live among us. Every time I come back from wherever I went, my dogs are happy and excited and celebrate my arrival with joy, delighted...

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Shaping Your Best-Self

“Go back inside yourself and look: if you do not see yourself as beautiful, then do as a sculptor does with a statue he wants to make beautiful: he chisels away one part, and...

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Our Powerful Simulator

Along thousands of years, human’s brain has evolved developing a new structure called prefrontal cortex.  This area does lots of things, but the most important function is to be an experience simulator. Human beings have...

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Being in Touch with Nature

One of the things that has happened as we have become a more industrialized society is that we have actually become even more disconnected from our planet and the world around us. We build...

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Comparison

We live in a culture of comparison.  We feel good about our job until we perceive someone progressing faster than us.  We feel good about our finances until we see someone exposing their opulent...

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Reshape your Brain

Our brain is made up of billions of neurons that communicate with each other by releasing chemicals called neurotransmitters (e.g., dopamine and glutamate), into the space between them known as synapses. It is a...