Archive for 'Positive Psychology' Category

Gaining a Slight Edge

Posted by Sharon 4 September 2012

I’m really enjoying Jeff Olsen’s book The Slight Edge.  It ties together a number of themes I love around taking action, discipline, mastery, developing habits and positivity and the diagram reminds me that there are consequences of taking (small actions consistently leads to great results. As a result of the book’s message, I’ve created a [...]

Finally: My formula for happiness

Posted by Sharon 8 May 2010

New research reported by behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman, shows a fascinating distinction: “money doesn’t buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you [the experience of] misery.”  Check out Kahneman’s TED Talk here. Kahneman explains that the research from the USA shows people’s moment to moment feelings of happiness increase as their income [...]

Positivity and the Magic Ratio

Posted by Sharon 29 November 2009

We’ve got the golden mean and the 80/20 rule.  Now, thanks to Barbara Fredrickson, author of Positivity, we have the magic positivity ratio of 3:1: if you have at least three positives – thoughts, phrases or actions – for every one negative, your life will change for the better. Medical, psychological, marriage and business research [...]