Search for Meaning: 3 Questions to Make Life More Meaningful
What gives YOU (yes, you personally) a sense of meaning in life? And what leads to moments in which life doesn’t feel so meaningful? One of the most challenging puzzles within positive psychology is the one of living a meaningful life. It seems like it is easy to figure out what makes life meaningful once […]
The key to courageous, meaningful life
Do you have a life vision? How well is it working for you? Really. Take a moment to think about it. Might seem a bit of a silly question… but see, one of the most powerful things to understand about the life vision is: It’s not about what vision is… it’s about what vision does. […]
5 tips to move from languishing to wellbeing
LANGUISHING is all the buzz these day. It is that place between being unwell, and full wellbeing. It is away from suffering or depression, but it is also not flourishing. That gray area, where you can’t say that something is super wrong, but that doesn’t feel super right either. It is marked by having trouble […]
Your own Life Design: 7 easy exercises that will help you re-focus
Life Design is a mindset, decision and a process of taking an intentional, deliberate, and motivating approach to building the life that makes you happy, fulfilled and that feels “right” for you. Here you can find 7 free tools and resources from Happiness Academy to help you create a life you love. And if you […]
Rewrite your story, change your life
“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.” — Susan Statham How are you telling the story of your life? And no, I don’t mean what is your pitch or brand or how are you presenting yourself to others. I mean, how are you telling your own story to yourself? Who are you? What is your […]
Not sure what you want from life? Rocking chair exercise might help
Are you a bit indecisive about what you want from life these days? What do you wish to create, learn, and who with? And perhaps what are your priorities? Or perhaps you have a big life decision ahead of you and you are not sure what is the better option for you? This exercise might […]
How to be the master of your own self-development: 4 practical exercises
Whatever we do in life – learn something new, read a good book or article, have an mind-boggling conversation, go through an unusual experience, act on something new – in a way, we are working on our continuous self-development. But how can we bring a little bit more of intentionality in our self-development – first […]
Powerful story to improve your thinking
You know those stories that make you think – perhaps depress you a tiny bit but also encourage you to more your butt and do something better? This is one of those…. A story of elephants, ropes and choices. “When I was a small boy, I loved going to the circus. Animal acts were my […]
Live more, need less: The link between minimalism and happiness
“Disciplined pursuit of less”, “focusing on what really matters” or “simply owning only stuff we love” is how some of the leaders of the minimalism movement (more about them a bit later :)) describe the idea in the core of minimalism. Today’s topic at first might seem a bit of a surprise – it is […]
Want to refocus your life? Try this 3-minute exercise
How are you doing these days? If by any chance you feel like your life is ok, yet there are definitely small things that make you grumpy – and perhaps you are not even sure what they are – this exercise will be a great way to bring you straight back to balance. It gives […]