-
JIM PURCELL What do employers want more than anything? Healthy, engaged, productive, energized, and thriving employees who provide great customer service and high quality products. What they have is all too often the antithesis of that. This article is...
-
Imagine waking up each morning excited to start the day because you know it will be filled with joy, fun, and happiness. You can absolutely have this kind of life. It’s not a pipe dream, but it will require change. Think about it; you can change...
-
Are you a resolution maker? I can’t say that I am. Instead I try to find time to listen closely to my heart, in meditation and in prayer to get a feeling of where my focus should be in the upcoming year. Last year was prepared. This year the word...
-
Older adults more often find happiness in everyday events, a new study finds. Read More...
-
In a study of heart failure patients, hints of a new generation gap. Read More...
-
Raising conscientious children is definitely not the most fun part of parenting, but protecting them from the consequences of every failure is the biggest parental failure of all. Read More...
-
After a divorce, a mother looks for an honest conversation about what really makes us happy — and it's hard to find. Read More...
-
It's famously who and what we live near, rather than the size of our house or our yard, that makes us happy. Read More...
-
New research shows that having children inoculates parents against the things that conspire to cause unhappiness. So there. Read More...
-
Finally, economists who recognize that the benefits of having children just might not be quantifiable. Read More...
-
Very quick piece. Last night, I gave a talk at NAMI San Diego. I had no problem picking a topic, as we would be holding our annual Inspirational Awards Dinner the next evening (tonight). We are honoring six local heroes, so I focused on connecting the...
-
It’s been a very busy week or two for me. We’re putting the final touches together for our annual NAMI San Diego Inspirational Awards Dinner next week, plus I’m preparing for a talk I will be giving the night before. Thankfully my work on the Dinner gave...
-
I'm working on a talk I will be giving next week to NAMI San Diego. This will take place the night before our annual Inspirational Awards Dinner. What, I wondered did the six individuals we will be honoring have in common? Ah, topic for a talk. A...
-
(Originally posted as a guest blog on Happiness Inside, which is now closed) Earlier this year, I pursued a passion that was long buried inside of me. I didn’t even realize how long it was buried until I began to unwrap it on my 44th birthday last year...
-
The other day I was talking with a neighbor about a mutual friend. This neighbor made the comment that our mutual friend had totally turned around her countenance after many of the worries she had been facing were beginning to work themselves out. My...