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 [...]

My last 2 nights of sleep have been awful and right now I’d give up my kingdom for a cozy, quiet room with a nice bed (I don’t want to go back home as my neighbours downstairs are way too noisy and they never let me have my siesta on weekends).
I already said that I [...]

Have you ever been fired? I have. Twice.
Once because after 2 weeks in the job my manager decided he didn’t like me and that there was a “skin feel” issue (words used by the HR manager).
The second it was plain downsizing, me and many more were fired during a recession (and 2 days before my [...]

We live in a visual world where perception is everything. It’s not so much what you are but what the others see about you that can eventually make or break your career. It’s not enough being the best person for the job, you also have to look like it. Becoming a master of perception is [...]

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 [...]

Many people go after the holy grail of “Life Purpose”  thinking that until they’re not into the big thing, they can’t even start applying it.
Lots of my clients are stuck in the “I’m aimed for big things… but right now I’m stuck in this dead end job” So they end up doing nothing: they don’t [...]

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 [...]

This week it was refreshing to hear how Marie Forleo has been talking about those truths Gurus will not tell you.
Until not too long all I was hearing was that if you couldn’t go from zero to multimillions in 30 days, you didn’t deserve to be an entrepreneur: that you had “issues” blocking your way [...]