Welcome to the Happiness Notebook: Your weekly encouragement with tips to help you live to your best, with less stress and overwhelm. The happiness notebook is s quick guide with ideas to help you build solutions to common problems or challenges we all face as busy professionals, so we can live our preferred and best […]

Imagine this fictional story… Janet is conscientious, which produces some anxiety. She studies hard and takes on a job with many responsibilities and, at times, becomes stressed from the long hours and expectations. She thinks this is because she’s an anxious person, however, using her conscientiousness, she starts an exercise program in the outdoors which […]

Have you ever asked yourself “why am I hard on myself but not so hard on other people?” Here are two facts that seem to contradict but coexist: You’ve achieved a lot in a successful career and life Sometimes you doubt yourself Because you’re a high achiever, it’s hard to accept self doubt as a […]

Habit 2: Using a sequence of thinking to manage setbacks and walk on with confidence We all want to be successful in the tasks we carry out but this aspiration is at times hindered by setbacks or roadblocks and is frustrating to our happiness. We need thoughts that help us stay strong and live with […]

Habit 10: living with confident and realistic self knowledge What is a trait that gives you optimism and helps you to set and achieve your goals with a calmness and hope? Confidence. Most of us like to be confident and it’s an admirable trait for goal achievement, self esteem, and better relationships. But in our […]

Foundation habit 2: Pursue self-acceptance. NB: This article forms part of a series about habits for happiness to help you live your best life. The initial three habits focus on foundation habits of happy living. These set the framework for 12 habits of happiness. last week, I wrote about self-compassion, which is an action we […]