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Clearing the Path Forward: How to Use Your Strengths to Change a Habit

Refraining from continuing with a habit is just part of the equation. But if we start consciously working on forming a new habit while giving up an old one, our brain will be busy creating brand new neurological connections and will be less likely to revisit the old ones. And if we ensure that the new activity causes the release of dopamine, we’re more likely to stick to the new routine thanks to the good feeling we get from doing so.

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Strengths, Skills and Life Purpose

Humans are full of paradoxes. We will gladly spend time and energy doing things that are unfamiliar yet strangely appealing and dread the things that we’re good at but don’t enjoy. Have you ever wondered why some things, no matter how good we are at them, don’t bring us joy or prompt us to do

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5 Things I Learned from Losing Computer Data

1 Comment / Learning Curve, Positive Psychology, Spirituality / AB

Teaching moments come in the most unexpected, often painful ways. And the more painful the lesson, the greater the chance its message will stick forever. Making a mistake could be compared to being bitten by the wisdom bug. Its venom rushes through our veins and activates the production of antibodies. As a result, our immune

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How to Improve Well-Being with What Went Well?

Positive Psychology, Spirituality / AB

Can Positive Psychology help us achieve professional closure? I believe so. In this post I will show that the What Went Well method does wonders in shifting the focus from the negative onto the positive. Pause and Reflect The end of a professional relationship can be a challenging time. Especially if you enjoyed the work

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Why We Love Engagement? PERMA Model in Action

Positive Psychology / AB

When you increase the level of one element – Engagement – it will have a ripple effect on the whole system. In this post I talk how feeling engaged at work has impacted my overall well-being, as per the PERMA model. Engagement as a Gateway Who doesn’t enjoy the feeling of engagement? For example, playing

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Born to Be Happy: How to Claim What’s Yours

Positive Psychology, Spirituality / AB

Do you know that well-being and happiness are our birth right? And that feeling happy every day is not a privilege of a selected few but a state quite common and the one that’s easy to achieve for most? Because we are alive, we are meant to be happy and have a fulfilling life. All

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Be Happy, Be Grateful: The Power of Expressed Gratitude

Positive Psychology, Spirituality / AB

Want to boost your happiness level? Start by feeling grateful. By incorporating gratitude in your daily activities, you can create a ripple effect in all areas of your life. How to do it? Keep on reading… Grateful for Time Wasted Volumes have been said about the addictive nature of Facebook. Checking on your neighbourhood’s group

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Brown Leather Carrot: How to Read Synchronicities

Musing, Positive Psychology, Spirituality / AB

Synchronicities are permanently woven into our every day’s experience, although we usually call them coincidences. Have you ever thought about a friend only to receive a call from her five minutes later? Or randomly decided to take a different route to work and learn that the one usually taken had been blocked by the traffic

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Phoenix, Risks and Brick Walls: North Node in Action

Musing, Positive Psychology, Spirituality, Words of Wisdom / AB

Reading a well-written column is a treat. But reading a column that inspires you to examine your beliefs and do some soul-searching is a true delicacy. “The Last Lecture” column by Chris Peterson struck a chord with me. Firstly, by reminding the name and legacy of late Randy Pausch, a charismatic computer science professor. Mr

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Why Happy Introverts Are More Common Than You Think?

Musing, Positive Psychology, Words of Wisdom / AB

When we experience a strong reaction, it usually means some of our core values are being challenged. In this post I talk about my visceral reaction to the claim that happy introverts are a rare occurrence, unlike happy extroverts, who are quite common. Cognition Rules I’d like to think of myself as a rather reasonable

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