Helpful, healthy language
A good reminder from James Clear on a simple shift in language that can help with healthy eating and with moving our 'locus of control' from external to more internal. …
Will you stay or will you leave?
Fascinating article from researcher Irit Alony, of Wollongong University, published in the Conversation today. She and her colleagues applied the successful divorce-prediction criteria of John Gottman, from the University of…
Why we must celebrate the small wins
A great way to start the week listening to Tim Ferriss' podcast with Chase Jarvis. I especially love his comments about the really important reason for celebrating the small wins.…
Guilt is Good
Have a look at a great video clip from NLP master trainer Steve Andreas about guilt. He gives us some really good reframing: If I'm feeling guilty about something rude…
Gaining a Slight Edge
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…
Finally: My formula for happiness
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…
Positivity and the Magic Ratio
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 all seem to be converging on a similar prediction – that high performance teams, partnerships and individuals all have in common a three to one ratio of positives to negatives.