How to Measure Progress in Your Personal Goals: Daily, Weekly and Monthly 5.1K Flares Filament.io 5.1K Flares × Although there are some people who advocate for dropping all your goals or focusing on systems instead of goals, I’ve never managed to fully give up on setting goals for myself. In fact, I just finished my monthly review today, where I looked at how well I did on the goals I set for myself last month and set some new ones for the month ahead. As I was doing this, I started to wonder whether I was doing myself any favors by reviewing my progress monthly. I had a look into the science of measuring progress towards your personal goals and how it affects your well-being, as well as some examples of ways to track your own progress. The science of measuring progress towards personal goals Firstly, I found a couple of studies that found that improvements in well-being, satisfaction and happiness can come from making progress towards your personal goals. The caveat here is that your goals need to be in line with your inner needs and motives. 1. 2. That’s it. 3.
Positive Psychotherapy: 5 Exercises and Tools for Counsellors and Therapists Positive psychotherapy: the term almost seems self-contradictory. The word “psychotherapy” often evokes images of nerve-wracked patients reclining on couches, a stern therapist with furrowed brows and a notepad, and a deep uneasiness linked to the identification and analysis of every childhood trauma you have suffered, whether you remembered it before the session or not. Of course, this is an outdated and largely inaccurate idea of psychotherapy, although it still may seem counterintuitive to combine positive psychology with psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is typically reserved for those with moderate to severe behavioral, emotional, or personality issues, not people who are normally happy and healthy but struggle with occasional stress. How can this type of therapy, which deals with such serious and difficult subject matter, possibly be considered “positive”? The Positive Psychology Toolkit Become a Science-Based Practitioner! What is Positive Psychotherapy? Positive Effects Gratitude Journal
21 Habits of Happy People “Happiness is a habit – cultivate it.” ~ Elbert Hubbard Happiness is one aspiration all people share. No one wants to be sad and depressed. We’ve all seen people who are always happy – even amidst agonizing life trials. 1. Be thankful that you woke up alive each morning. 2. Surround yourself with happy, positive people who share your values and goals. 3. Accept others for who they are as well as where they are in life. 4. Keep up to date with the latest news regarding your career and hobbies. 5. Don’t wallow in self-pity. 6. Some statistics show that 80% of people dislike their jobs! 7. Take the time to see the beauty around you. 8. Don’t take yourself – or life to seriously. 9. Holding a grudge will hurt no one but you. 10. Develop an attitude of gratitude. 11. Always make sure your loved ones know you love them even in times of conflict. 12. Honesty is the best policy. 13. Meditation gives your very active brain a rest. 14. Concentrate on creating your life the way you want it. 15.
La créativité: 18 choses que les gens créatifs font différemment des autres CERVEAU - La créativité opère de manière mystérieuse et souvent paradoxale. La pensée créative est une caractéristique stable qui définit certaines personnalités, mais elle peut aussi changer en fonction du contexte. On a souvent l’impression que l’inspiration et les idées naissent de nulle part et qu’elles disparaissent au moment où on a le plus besoin d’elles. La pensée créative nécessite une cognition complexe qui est néanmoins complètement différente du processus de réflexion. La neuroscience nous propose une image très complexe de la créativité. Psychologiquement parlant, les types de personnalités créatives sont difficiles à repérer, car elles sont en général complexes, paradoxales et qu’elles ont tendance à éviter l’habitude ou la routine. S’il n’existe pas de profil créatif "typique ", on trouve cependant des caractéristiques et des comportements révélateurs chez les personnes extrêmement créatives. Selon Kaufman et la psychologue Rebecca L. Ils prennent le temps d’être seuls
Do Happiness Interventions Really Work? Do you long to be happier? From the science of happiness to self-help books there seems to be no-end of suggestions of how to be happier. But does any of it really work long-term? It was my childhood dream to grow up and finally be happy. So you can imagine my disappointment when despite my best efforts of racking up career achievements, building a fort of financial security and creating a loving community of family and friends, I still wasn’t consistently happy. Don’t get me wrong there were many moments of real joy, contentment and gratitude on my journey. So is it really possible to be happier? “It’s easy to believe that you’re either born with happiness or not, or life has dealt you happy circumstances or not,” explained Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky, from the University of California and author of the best-selling The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness when I interviewed her recently. Feeling happier has been found to have many advantages.
The Benjamin Franklin Effect: The Surprising Psychology of How to Handle Haters “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, “so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” But given how much our minds mislead us, what if we don’t realize when we’re pretending — who are we then? That’s precisely what David McRaney explores in You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself (public library) — a “book about self-delusion, but also a celebration of it,” a fascinating and pleasantly uncomfortable-making look at why “self-delusion is as much a part of the human condition as fingers and toes,” and the follow-up to McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart, one of the best psychology books of 2011. McRaney, with his signature fusion of intelligent irreverence and irreverent intelligence, writes in the introduction: The human mind is obviously vaster and more powerful than any other animal mind, and that’s something people throughout all human history couldn’t help but notice.
Communication non verbale: des techniques... Comment être convaincant à l'oral, avoir plus de présence, faire des interventions plus marquantes? Il faut avant tout structurer son intervention d'une manière adaptée. Mais ensuite, ce qui fera la différence passera plus par ce qu'on appelle le "non-verbal". Apprendre à respirer Pour un grand nombre d'entre nous, apprendre à maîtriser sa voix améliore de façon étonnante l'impact à l'oral. Pour certains, le déclic viendra de la découverte du côté physique de la prise de parole en public : l'ancrage au sol, les différents appuis, la manière d'aller chercher de l'énergie en soi pour la transmettre à son public... Chez d'autres, cela passera par une meilleure utilisation du regard, du sourire, des silences. Avoir confiance en soi Mais il faut faire attention à ne pas se contenter d'accumuler des techniques en croyant que cela nous donnera du talent. Une bonne intervention orale passe toujours par une prise de confiance.
6 Exercises for Positive Emotions: Start Your Upward Spiral Today Home » Positive Emotions » 6 Exercises for Positive Emotions: Start Your Upward Spiral Today Over the past few years, many researchers have found new and scientifically proven ways to increase positive emotions and well-being. From Martin Seligman to Barbera Fredrickson, from Jon Kabat-Zinn to Amy Cuddy. All of them have discovered and shared a number of different practices to help increase the level of positivity you can experience in your life. The six techniques described below have all been shown to boost positive emotions, albeit with a certain amount of commitment and practice. Depending on your preferences, you might find some techniques suit you more than others but let us introduce six exercises. 1. This classic gratitude exercise is recommended by Seligman (2011) in his book “Flourish”. This exercise has been shown to improve symptoms of depression over a timeframe of a few months, but really all of us can benefit from reflecting on what went well each day. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
12 Things You Are Doing To Sabotage Your Future I have mentored, counseled, encouraged, discouraged, hired and fired hundreds of people over the past 25 years. Oftentimes failure is less about a lack of talent or ability, and more about self sabotage. These are frequent road blocks I see in people, myself included. 1. You are lazy. Most of us default to indolence. 2. You start out great. 3. No one is going to pluck you from obscurity or discover you working at a diner. If you were going to advance your goals with the help of the people you hang out with right now then you’d already be on your way. 4. You know the answer to the question posed above: “What have you got to lose?” 5. Many of the cases I have won and most of the money I have made is because someone on the other side gave in. Know this: there are very few obstacles that cannot be overcome. 6. Stop complaining. 7. There was a busboy at one of my favorite restaurants who wanted to be a chef. 8. “You’ll never get that job.” 9. There’s no such thing. 10. 11. 12.