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Could You Cope? Managing Stress: Part 2

July 7, 2008

I wanted to try to move this series onto a more practical level. So I have made up a hypothetical Character, Tom and shown three diary entries.

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Time Heals: The Grieving Process

May 28, 2008

One of the most common phrases people say to others in some form of grief is, ‘time heals’ or ‘it takes time’. It usually does, but time is not the healer. There is a certain process that has to be gone through in order to move things from being painful to being accepted. And this [...]

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Practising Happiness: Why Is It So Hard To Live What We Know?

May 23, 2008

This post about practicing happiness is the second point raised in Brian’s questions. The question of how to apply what you know. I talked a while back about the 10,000 hour principle. The idea that to become a true expert at something takes 10,000 hours of practice. That’s true in every area of life.

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Is Letting Go To Allow Suffering?

May 19, 2008

Thanks to those people who took the time to comment after reading the Happiness 2.0 Report. Brian asked some questions that I think we all struggle with from time to time. I’m going to address the first one here and follow on with the second.

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My Biggest Regret And Your Biggest Opportunity

May 1, 2008

Sometimes I’ve been asked ‘what my biggest regret is’. I used to think I didn’t regret. I’m not the sort of person to look back. Perhaps there is a mild feeling of regret that particularly in my past business, that I allowed myself to be talked out of strategies that instinctively I knew were right, [...]

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Why Meditating Will Make You Happier Than Succeeding

April 2, 2008

This is Part 3 of a 3 part series.  (Part 1 – More Doesn’t Lead To Happier, Part 2 – Happiness And Political Correctness) When I was young and we were going on holiday my Dad would put our suitcases etc on the roof rack.  And he would strap them down securely with those elasticated [...]

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Stop Reading And Start Thinking. The Problem With Self Help.

March 5, 2008

I guess I live in the self-help genre. I don’t like a lot of what I see there though. There’s a lot of nonsense and hot air. There’s seems to be a lot of falseness. My main beef with it though is that people buy into it from emotional insecurity and become more insecure the [...]

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What Are You Great At?

February 28, 2008

This post is a follow up to Jenny’s comments about bettering myself. Perhaps the major barrier that holds people back is feeling unworthy. There are many forms of it, but it’s what a lot of issues boil down to.

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Should We Be Better Or Happy As We Are?

February 22, 2008

After the last post I was asked a couple of questions. I love these questions because they force me to explain more clearly and precisely. Here I’m answering Craig’s question, there will be a separate post for Jenny’s. But for now here’s Craig’s comment.

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