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What’s Your Positivity Ratio? Take the Positivity Quiz and Find Out!
What is your positivity ratio? The Losada ratio (aka positivity ratio) is a way to get a feel for where you fall on the positivity scale. Are you too negative and slipping towards stress and depression? Are you too positive and not grounded in reality? Or like Goldilocks are you, “just right”. Take the positivity quiz and find […]
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Self Compassion – How Caring for Others can Bring you Success and Happiness
Afraid of public speaking? You’re not alone – more than 70% of Americans suffer from speech anxiety. The butterflies, light-headedness, sweaty palms, fidgety legs, shaky knees, and incoherent mumbling? All normal. But accepting that it’s normal? Not so normal. By skipping, ignoring, and even resisting the truth that failure is normal, we’re losing out on […]
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6 Uncomfortable Truths about Happiness
The Great American Dream – anyone can rise up from poverty to become rich and beautiful. These dreams come from our culture – work hard, get a great education, work even harder, make lots of money, become attractive, marry a beautiful spouse, have kids, retire in a beach house. Generally, our culture is good. It motivates and […]
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How Grateful Are You? Interactive Quiz + Seven Strategies for Cultivating Gratitude
Gratitude increases our happiness, improves our relationships, and makes us healthier. And it does so reliably. Over 40 research studies have shown the same thing – gratitude rocks. So how can we get more of it? It depends. How grateful are you already? Let’s figure that out. The quiz below only takes 30 seconds. To get the gratitude habit […]
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Happiness and Religion- Getting the Benefits Outside the Cathedral
If you are interested in learning in positive psychology the way that I am you may wonder if gratitude, happiness, and wellbeing are more likely for people who are religious. Let me give you the short answer. They are. People who claim adherence to some sort of higher power are both more likely to experience […]
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Positive Psychology Progress (2005, Seligman, M. P., Steen, T. A., Park, N., & Peterson, C.)
Using a sample recruited through the Authentic Happiness website, the authors of the study wanted to compare the effectiveness of five different happiness techniques, each delivered via the internet. The five techniques chosen were: gratitude visit, three good things in life, you at your best, using signature strengths in a new way, and identifying signature strengths. The Steen Happiness Index […]
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