Why make happiness a priority?
It’s not selfish to love yourself and to make your happiness a priority, it’s necessary.
Mandy Hale
One of the things I have learnt over the years is that if we are to be well, we need to make our …
After the book launch: What happened and what’s next?
Since our Hobart launch of Finding Happy Ground: A practical guide to hope and happiness on the 5th of May, quite a few people have asked me how I felt at the event, how I think it went, and …
Finding Happy Ground – OUT NOW!
Finding Happy Ground is a practical guide to hope and happiness and it is AVAILABLE NOW from a range of online booksellers, including Barnes and Noble, Booktopia and Book Depository.
The book contains the essence of what Ivan …
Achieving heart centred happiness
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
These days the benefits of meditation are relatively well known, and they include reduced stress …
Reduce your complaints and feel happier
Most people complain at some stage or another about life’s trials and tribulations, whether they be negative experiences of the past or perhaps ongoing issues in the present. In fact some people can become persistent complainers and struggle to get …
How technology can create stressful work cultures
As someone who has been in the workforce for well over twenty years, I remember a time when email was only in its infancy and there were no mobile phones. You would go to the office, sit down at your …
Why happy workers are good for business
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy outperform the less happy.
Gretchen Rubin
Having spent over twenty years in a …
Bring hope to 2017
Hi everyone,
Dani here. The first blog of the year. Something tells me 2017 is going to be a very memorable one! For me this year is definitely about building hope. While Ivan writes most of the Happy Ground …
How to thrive at Christmas
Christmas can bring up all sorts of feelings for people. Some of us are reminded of happy childhoods and fun times spent with families. For others, Christmas was more difficult, given when our family got together, they didn’t always get …
Why it is good to be idle sometimes
I don’t know if I can relax. Relax, I can’t do. My brain, on idle, is a bad thing. I just get weird. I mean, not weird. I get, I get antsy.
Johnny Depp.
It seems to me that these …