Words of Wisdom – Page 16

The Science of Happiness

Last week I re-read a great article in The Sun magazine, “The Science of Happiness” by Barbara Fredrickson. Fredrickson is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has spent more than 20 years investigating the relatively uncharted terrain of positive ...

The Joy of Simple Pleasures

This post is about simple pleasures. As an example, I enjoy hanging laundry out in the back yard. I take much pleasure in this activity. I enjoy hanging the clothes just right, so they get maximum sun and breeze. Once dry, I like taking the clothes down, folding them ...

Learning How To Learn

It’s been a long time since I last learned how to do something brand new, and I have to say, I’m really not fond of being a novice. I’m one of those people who grows quickly impatient if I can’t do something well right out of the gate. I ...

Business and Busyness

This post comes from the Harvard Business Review blog. I’m sharing the post, “Is Busyness Bad for Business?” written by Susan David, who is the founder and co-director of the Harvard/McClean Institute of Coaching and a member of the Harvard faculty, in its entirety: “Michael is busy. For weeks ...

The Importance of Team Work

We hear the word “teamwork” so often that I think we forget how much it affects our lives. When people try to accomplish a common vision, mission or goal, they engage in teamwork. It can be as complicated as the teamwork accomplished by the NASA team members who recently ...

Practicing How To Let Go Of Things

This post is a lesson I learned from a book entitled, “The Book of Awakening”, by Mark Nepot. The subject is about learning how to let go of things. All Fall Down “It was a snowy night, and Robert was recalling the time two springs ago when he was ...

Words From Thoreau – The Benefits of Doing Nothing

This is the final weekend of August. Summer is rounding the bend into autumn, and again the seasons will change. With that change, summer vacation comes to an end. As an adult, I’ve always kind of resented having to work in summer. Those three months off from school at ...

Do Unto Others

Have you ever noticed how many of us constantly try to influence others to adopt our point of view? We try to convince others that the way we see something or the opinions we have are correct. We want others to see or think of something in the same ...

Good Suggestions When You’re Being Hard On Yourself

This has been my week to berate myself. It’s not something I do often, but when I do, it really feels awful. A discontented state of mind hangs over me like a stormy day and can be accompanied by nasty thoughts of judgment and negativity that shoot at me like ...

The Benefits of Exposing Yourself to Other Cultures

This post is about expanding our thinking and the benefits of exposing ourselves to other cultures. I clearly remember when my husband was in China on business. He spent four days in Shanghai and two days in Beijing. While away, he sent me a number of e-mails that I ...

The Importance of Body Language

I recently read an article about the importance of body language and what it communicates about us. I’ve long known that our body language often communicates far more than our tone of voice or the actual words we speak. For example, I sat in a meeting last week where one ...

Benefits of Travel

Whenever I’ve gone on a journey out of the country, I always ask myself three questions: What did I learn about the world? What was the greatest gift I received? What did I learn about myself? This post is my attempt to answer these questions. Traveling to foreign places ...

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