Have trouble achieving your goals in life? Having trouble achieving the level of success you desire? Not as productive as you wish? This short piece from NPR yesterday put a smile on my face for the rest of the day. It is an interview under 2 minutes. I don’t want to give away the story. Trust me,...Read More
By Brock Bastian, University of Queensland Western culture places an extraordinary emphasis on happiness – and continuous happiness – as the goal each of us should strive for in our lives. But we’re increasingly realising this goal may actually be making us unhappy. Television advertising shows people becoming happier with every new acquisition, alongside national...Read More
Negative reports of positive psychology show ignorance isn’t bliss By Adam Barsky, University of Melbourne and Michael Zyphur, University of Melbourne Perhaps because the word positive automatically brings to mind the insufferable yellow smiley face, the field of positive psychology is struggling to get the respect that it deserves. Two articles in the Fairfax press...Read More
When I created the Random Acts of Kindle Kindness to celebrate the one year anniversary of the events that became Don’t Die with Your Song Unsung, I had some strategic goals for the book and the campaign. I did not achieve those goals. Instead, the campaign is achieving goals I could never have planned to achieve —...Read More
Want to share a 4×4 that Ben Dean of Mentor Coach used in our Blue Sky Thinking class last week. This 4×4 is known as the Covey Time Management Matrix. See https://www.stephencovey.com/ for more about work Stephen Covey and his company has developed. The question I will put to you is simple: How much of...Read More
Willpower has returned! Thanks to the research of Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney and the publication of their recent book, Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength, willpower is shaking its reputation as a character flaw and being studied as a strength to be developed. The transition from studying why people lack willpower to studying...Read More
