Also, as I discovered when I took the Newcastle Personality Assessor, which measures personality according to the Big Five model (openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness...
All I did was read a book, and that action unleashed an enormous force: the Strategy of the Lightning Bolt.
According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income...
A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it’s often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit. Neither a scientist nor a philosopher but a novelist, Lisa Gr...
A regular work schedule can help procrastinators because progress and engagement relieve their anxiety.
A University of Exeter study showed that people who have control over their workspace design are happier at work, more motivated, healthier, and up to 32 percent more productive.
When we give more to ourselves, we can ask more of ourselves.
We all know the secret of dieting—eat better, eat less, exercise more—it’s the application that’s challenging. I had to create a scheme to put happiness ideas into practice in my life.
To do the intellectually demanding work of writing, I leave my home office and my three beloved computer monitors to work at the wonderful old library that’s just a block from my apartment. The atmosp...
Plainness was not necessarily simplicity, Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned. Elimination, therefore, may be just as meaningless as elaboration, perhaps more often is so. To know what to leave out and what...
It struck me, in fact, that all of my work on habits and happiness was meant to help us construct, as much as possible, just that: everyday life in Utopia. Everyday life with deep, loving relationship...
It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.
In other words, habits eliminate the need for self-control.
In other words, even though one coin certainly isn’t sufficient to make a man rich, a man only becomes rich by adding one coin after another.
If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometimes, it requires enormous self-control.
I'm not tempted by things I've decided are off-limits, but once I've started something, I have trouble stopping. If I never do something, it requires no self-control for me; if I do something sometime...
I should tailor my habits to the fundamental aspects of my nature that aren’t going to change. It was no use saying I’ll write more every day if I team up with another writer, and we race to see who c...
I should make one healthy choice, and then stop choosing.
I pegged her as a highly considerate UPHOLDER/Obliger. She’s able to meet inner expectations without outer accountability, but only when outer expectations don’t interfere.
I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.