Oct 5
2008

Is Career Happiness Up to You?

By Sherri Fisher Sherri Fisher's website Sherri Fisher's email

How much of your happiness is up to you? Three-and-a-half slices worth. You are probably familiar with Ken Sheldon, David Schkade and Sonja Lyubomirsky’s pie chart depicting where our happiness comes from. If the pie has eight slices, it’s four slices of heredity, half a slice of life circumstances and three-and-a-half slices of intentional choices that you make. So the answer to the question in the title of this piece is that to a very great extent, your happiness, or well-being (a more chronic level of happiness) is in your hands […]

Topics: All, Exercises, Goals, Habits, Optimism and Positive Thinking, Positive Emotions (Positive Affect) 4 comments 4

Apr 3
2007

“Three Good Things”: A 7 Year Old’s View on Three Blessings

By Jen Hausmann Jen Hausmann's website Jen Hausmann's email

On the nights I am lucky enough to put my son to bed, I have learned to treasure a ritual that we established over a year ago, during my first semester as a student in Penn’s MAPP (Master of Applied Positive Psychology) program. Always looking for the “A” in MAPP, I was almost single mindedly […]

Topics: All, Gratitude 9 comments 9

Jan 3
2007

The Right Fit Makes a Difference

By Jen Hausmann Jen Hausmann's website Jen Hausmann's email

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Not everything works in every environment. This we know. All of us have committed a faux pas at one time or another: told the wrong joke in the wrong place, congratulated someone on a promotion they didn’t actually get, shared with a friend how much we loved […]

Topics: All, Business, Optimism and Positive Thinking, Positive Emotions (Positive Affect), Strengths, _3 Positive Organizations 9 comments 9