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 [...]

U2 once said “Some days are better than others”. What happens when all your days feel pretty bad? What can we do to slow down our brain in the middle of a chaotic day?
I do have chaotic days both at the office and in my side business (on many occasions on the same day). Often, [...]

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 [...]

I never drank coffee until I started working in an office. My previous jobs had been in less ordinary facilities like hotels and airports, but never inside an office. Thank God, I never liked coffee as much as to become a habit.
However, there are lots of enthusiasts out there who can’t live without their caffeine [...]

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 [...]

Brazil’s flag says (in Portuguese) “Order and Progress”.
A few years ago I worked with a person that I couldn’t stand. And she couldn’t stand me. However, I learnt a very important lesson from her: to organize my desk (or my space) from time to time. My colleague called it “order and [...]