“How much positive emotion do we need to flourish?” is a question posed by Dr. Barbara Fredrickson, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and author of the book Positivity. She says it can be answered by what she calls the Positivity Ratio.
He’s funny and has had a brilliant idea, which he’s taken to market. It’s called DryBath™ – a product that allows millions of people who don’t have access to clean water to bathe. It’s a cheap, convenient lotion that you rub on your skin.
Other than the fact that the Thanksgiving holiday has provided me with a bit more time than usual to relax and play, as well as be creative (writing, cooking and successfully making pecan pralines...
Grab a beverage, sit back and enjoy this video (4:22 mins) about procrastination by Zig Ziglar. Hilarious, but it’s so true what he’s saying! “The people who wait for Aunt Matilda to move out,...
Whenever you have internal resistance, it helps to use this self-reflection exercise to get motivated and back on track again.
It’s time for the fourth and final factor that I wanted to discuss in this four-part series about what holds us back. Like I mentioned in part three of the series, having a lack...
In part two of “What’s Holding You Back?” I pointed out that events such as illness, loss and huge changes, in general, can steer us off course from achieving our intended goals. And sometimes...
