Entries Tagged as ‘Life satisfaction’

June 23, 2008

Answer to Barack Obama Question about American Competitiveness

I’ve written this answer twice to a LinkedIn question and had the connection be reset when I tried to save it. So I think I’ll do a third brain dump here where I know I can save it! (If you can’t see the question and other answers, I suspect you need to register [...]

December 12, 2007

Growth Mindsets and Marriage

A friend asked me what positive psychology can tell us about marriage. When I went digging around through my notes and books, one of the things I found was Carol Dweck’s chapter, Relationships: Mindsets in Love (or Not) in her book, Mindsets: The new psychology of success.
Dweck argues that people tend to have [...]

August 24, 2007

Changing the time of day

All of us have weak areas in our work at home or on the job. Some of these involve tasks where it takes more energy to make ourselves do them than the tasks themselves require. Marcus Buckingham has some very practical advice about dealing with these, including this statement that I have found [...]