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Practicing the Practical Power of Gratitude0
- GOOD FOR YOU Guest Experts
- July 10, 2011
By Jerry Posner More and more, I’m reading articles and scientific studies linking “happiness” to “gratitude.” This is pretty much a no-brainer: the more gratitude and thankfulness I feel, the happier I become. The more appreciation I express to others, the more happiness I spread. I don’t think we need too much research here –
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Practicing gratitude could help you live longer, according to new study0
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- July 18, 2024
Now more than ever, a message worth heeding: “Gratitude is powerful: powerful for happiness, powerful for addressing at least more minor depressive symptoms, powerful for improving health, powerful for protecting against premature death — and it is something that anyone can do.” Dr. Tyler VanderWeele, senior study author, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
READ MOREPractice Makes Perfect—And Not Just for Jocks and Musicians0
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- November 2, 2012
Rehearsing tasks, from teaching to medicine to consumer service, frees the brain for complex work. What drives mastery is encoding success—performing an action the right way over and over. The Wall Street Journal, 10/27/2012
READ MOREPowering Employees With More Than a Paycheck0
- Business
- November 16, 2013
Tony Schwartz, chief executive of the Energy Project and author of “Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live,” shares how companies can empower employees and engage them in the workplace. As Schwartz says, “Rather than trying to demand more and more from employees, employers need to invest
READ MOREPortable pools pose drowning risks for tots0
- Home & Family
- June 20, 2011
A new Pediatrics study quantified the dangers that portable pools present to small children. About two dozen children, almost all under the age of 5, drown in portable pools each year, it reported. With summer approaching and portable pools becoming a more financially friendly option, this study, analyzing a total of 209 pool-related deaths from
READ MOREPopular Lipsticks Contain Dangerous Levels of Lead0
- Health & Healing
- February 17, 2012
U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers have detected lead in 400 brands of lipstick tested by the agency. At least two popular brands had amounts of the neurotoxin above the threshold the state of California considers safe in personal care products, which is 5 parts per million. “Millions of women get a little bit of
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