Archive for December 2009
Book of the month
Well, it had to be Martin Seligman’s best seller Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realise Your Potential for Lasting Fulfilment. Pymble, Australia: Simon and Schuster, 2002. A good, inspiring read that could be read by even the most hard-boiled and cynical pessimist, that will get you thinking about those intentional activities that…
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“Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in…
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Sometimes, it is hard to take each new mega-scare story seriously when you don’t have the job of advising governments or preparing hospitals for the worst case scenario. With so much spin whistling around and everyone required to watch their backs knowing, if they are in the public eye, that whatever they say, someone will…
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