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There is no downside to being more positive
Holiday Season is Hug Season!
The most pleasurable method of increasing oxytocin is in human touch, most frequently exhibited in hugging. Giving someone a hug leads to higher levels of oxytocin and a greater sense of well-being.
Gratitude, a fundamental key to personal happiness
Whatever you are grateful for will grow in your life to create more things to be grateful for. Gratitude and more importantly, the practice of gratitude is a primary key to becoming truly happy, experiencing enhanced life satisfaction, and overcoming down or bad days....
Stress Relief for the Holidays or Anytime
There is no question that the Holiday season can add stress to our already stressful lives. Unmanaged stress is the number one overall health problem in the US according to the CDC, NIH and other health organizations. They say it drives 75 to 90 percent of our doctor...
Embracing a Positive Mindset at Work
Some days at work are going to feel like the office is on fire and you have to walk through burning hoops to get your job done. It’s these times that you’ll probably struggle the most to maintain a positive attitude. You may be good under pressure, but when the odds...
Stress Makes Us Less Effective
The business benefits of being good at stress. Does it make sense for a small- to medium-sized organization to engage in a stress management program? We know the big companies have stress management programs so it must return a tangible value to the company. Let’s...
A Gentle Kick to The Heart
Sometimes it takes a gentle kick to the heart to remind me of what is truly important. I was watching, or more accurately listening to the news when the Clemson Tigers visited the White House after winning the national collegiate football title. I must admit I wasn’t...
Mindfulness Moment – Savor something today
Savoring is a fun mindfulness practice. Savoring is one of my favorite mindfulness practices. I don’t call it an exercise because exercise means work. Perhaps I will have to try savoring exercise to create a more positive mindset about it. Savoring is simply deciding...
The Tetris Effect: How to Raise the Positivity Ratio
If positivity and happiness are to become a part of the culture at your company these suggestions must be modeled, mentored and coached by the leadership team if an effective transformation of a workplace is to happen so. I also don’t want to suggest that this is all...
How to Create a More Positive Workplace or Family Culture.
Do this: The Losada Ratio: Make sure you, as a leader are creating positive interactions and feedback. Start actively looking for your team members doing the right thing and doing what they are supposed to be doing and praise them for it. Praise them verbally, in an...
Using Science and Positive Psychology
In our quest to build more positive workplaces and families, science helps. In terms of human training, managing and supervising, psychologist and mathematician Marcial Losada has done research on the number of positive to negative interactions in business setting...
What Do Great Dog Trainers and Great Leaders Have in Common?
Long before I ever thought about training people and coaching executives and managers I wanted to be a dog trainer. We got our first family dog when I was about one year old. An Irish Setter named Shamrock that my dad trained. Shammy was to be my companion for the...