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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

No matter if you commute or if you work at home, “leaving” work for many people, specially entrepreneurs, is hard. It goes well beyond time mangement and it has more to do with how high we set our own boundaries.
If you’re working your life away, these 10 tips to de-stress from work will surely give [...]

Maybe you didn’t hear about Slow Food. If you have, you’ll know what this is about.
If you haven’t, here’s the scoop: get your meals made from scratch with locally grown ingredients.
What do you need to have local ingredients? Farmers. If you live in the countryside and you like growing things, this could be your thing. [...]

When people ask me how they can start to be happy at their workplace -especially in these days-, I tell them the answer is more than just one thing. You will need a holistic approach to your life and career before you can stop feeling like you’re flying in a wrecked plane in turbulent air. [...]