When someone smiles at you, you almost always smile back at them. It’s actually quite difficult to avoid smiling back. Smiling in itself can make you feel happy. Seeing someone smiling is a sign that they are happy. This made you smile which then made you feel happy. Therefore, smilingContinue Reading
Part 1 The process of fully developing personal potentials is known as self-actualization (Maslow, 1954). The heart of self-actualization is a continual search for personal fulfillment (Ross & Havercamp, 2005). A self-actualizer is a person living creatively and fully, using his or her potentials. Self-actualizers share many similarities whether richContinue Reading
Happiness, like most of our traits, is in part genetically inherited and somewhat under our control. Research gathered over the years favors the following ten ways of improving our happiness: Realizing money can’t buy enduring happiness. Taking control over one’s time. Acting happy. Seeking work and leisure activities that engageContinue Reading
“Know thyself” is one of the foundations of achieving human strength and happiness, according to psychologist Erich Fromm (1900-1980). A lot of time, effort and money is spent by many people in an attempt to find the “self” they feel is most worthy to achieve acceptance and most likely toContinue Reading
By Isha Sadhguru Sadhguru looks at why joy is our fundamental responsibility and answers a common yet pressing question for many: “How to be happy in life.” He gives us 10 tips towards making this a reality. Sadhguru: When you are fundamentally joyous, when you do not have to doContinue Reading
Empathy means having a capacity for taking another person’s point of view, or the ability to feel what someone else is feeling. Empathetic people are good at reading facial expressions, tone of voice, body language and other signs of someone else’s emotion. Empathetic arousal occurs when you feel some ofContinue Reading
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose” said American author Robert Byrne (1930-2016). This important yet simple statement is the answer to a question that has been asked throughout all of history. Why are we here? What is the purpose of our lives? Underlying these questions is theContinue Reading
How can I tell if I have meaning and purpose in my life? The following short quiz has statements from two different but related scales. One set of statements, 1 through 5, measures meaningfulness and belongingness. The second set, 6 through 10, measures whether you are undergoing a crisis ofContinue Reading
Some people are just born happy. They wake up every morning with a pleasant smile on their face, spreading joy everywhere they go. They are able to succeed at anything they set their mind to, and consequently expect perfection in themselves and others. They are brimming with self-confidence and super-optimism.Continue Reading
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs lists the qualities he observed in successful people who aimed high but kept their feet on the ground. Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) created a highly structured plan to explain his path of human motivation that people need to follow as they move to self-actualization. The plan isContinue Reading