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 [...]

What do you do when you are uninspired?
 
For several reasons, lately all I’ve done is work, eat and sleep. Ok, add to that commuter time, hygiene and a rock concert.
 
The fact remains that I’ve been utterly uninspired to write. I’ve been reading way too many technical things and all I could write about was just [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

 Life is a constant change, and so am I. Since joining David Neagle’s Recession Rescue with Rapid Results things have been moving at warp speed for me and my business. The best part of that program is the forum. The way we all network is amazing and there is an atmosphere of trust an confidence.
Seeing [...]

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 [...]