Want to build resilience and strength? Don’t “just step out of your comfort zone”
When we talk about resilience, one of the most common advice is to “face your fears”, “just step out of your comfort zone”, “just do it”. Even though this approach…
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”…
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…
7 traps on the way to happiness
The path of a happy life is full of traps. Every now and then, some of these traps messes up our happiness a bit – and often we don’t even…
Too good for your own good?
Brain trap #7: giving too much to others and too little to ourselves Are you one of those people who get lost in making everyone else happy, and forget to…
Happiness? It’s all in your head
Brain trap #6: how our thinking dictates our happiness Nothing – seriously, nothing – impacts our happiness as powerfully as our thinking patterns. The way we internalise our experiences, the…
The fragile balance of happiness
Brain trap #5: why getting just the right balance between the big picture and the moment is so damn difficult Did it ever happen to you that you are wonderfully…
Damn you, Joneses: how comparison steals our happiness
Brain trap #4: how comparison is the best way to diminish your happiness Did you ever have an amazing day – just to get it trashed by seeing a acquaintances…
Why we fail at predicting what will make us happy
Brain trap #3 or why we are notoriously bad at predicting what will make us happy Did you know that we humans are notoriously bad at predicting what will make…
Why everything is great and you are grumpy anyway
Brain trap #2: hedonic adaptation or how our brain learns to get used to good things a tiny bit too fast Do you ever have a feeling that your brain…