Happy From 9 to 5

A post by Charlie Gilkey about whether people would buy a $47 step-by-step program to achieve happiness prompted a very lively discussion.
So I started thinking, is happiness a teachable skill? And therefore, can we learn how to be happy at work despite it not filling our souls or not being our “purpose”?
To answer my own question [...]

A short time ago I heard about the 10-10-10 strategy.
What is it? It can be resumed in what consequences will your actions have in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years from now.
How exactly do you go by knowing how your decision will affect the next 10-increments in your life?
Suzy Welch, author of 10-10-10 A [...]

An article appeared on Yahoo Finance reports about the findings of the Gallup-Healthways Well Being Index on who are the happiest workers in America.Some of these results are:

Business owners are the happiest, followed by professionals and by managers/executives
Those 3 categories are those with the highest household incomes

However, not only the rich are happy.

Those working in [...]

Do you love certain subjects and want to build a side business? What about jst letting the world know about your expertise? Would that be good to build your image as an “expert” in your field?
Do you wonder how you can bring your voice to the right people who want and need what you have [...]

Supposedly, as corporate people, we are not meant to find purpose in our job. Our work, it is said, is just a means to pay our bills and a burden we have to bear to have enough to eat. Others say it is the way to pay for the life of fun we have after [...]

I was wondering… why are so many people so unhappy in their jobs?  If you look at the headlines and paid attention to the “experts,” you would think that the people WITH jobs would act like they had won the lottery… but they don’t.  What is it that makes people stay [...]