21 HABITS OF HAPPY PEOPLE THAT YOU SHOULD TRY C’mon, everyone, get happy! If that sounds too hard, maybe you’ve been going about it all wrong. It’s time to stop waiting to hit the jackpot, meet Mr. or Ms. Right or land that sweet job. True happiness doesn’t come from externals like that. Instead, take …

We all have times when we show up as our “best selves.” We are hopeful and optimistic, confident and resourceful. Our thinking is clear, we have high emotional intelligence, and what occurs to us to say is wise and right on point. Life looks and feels good. But life is not always like that. To …

1. Change is hard. So is listening. A lot of current research talks about how best to lead and manage change in people and organizations. We naturally become entrenched in habits, especially if they have been successful or rewarded in the past (which is one reason habits are so hard to change). Through a “listen-first” …

Think you have to be a tortured soul—à la van Gogh, Kurt Cobain or Sylvia Plath—to be truly creative? You don’t. In fact, the more cheerful you are, the likelier you are to be imaginative and innovative. The research of the late pioneer of scientific psychology Alice Isen, Ph.D., found that a positive “affect” (what …

Neuroscientist Moran Cerf has made a living studying how people make choices. Turns out, humans are pretty lousy decision-makers. We fall victim to bias, let emotions cloud our judgment, and tire of making choices pretty quickly. But Cerf has also learned that making a handful of really smart choices at the right moment can eliminate …