Gratitude

Positive interventions such as capitalizing, savoring and expressing gratitude have the potential to intentionally and explicitly cause a favorable change in subjective well-being. Capitalization is about sharing positive events with …

Think of some of your life’s achievements.  It’s okay.  No one’s watching.  Go ahead.  What accomplishments make you proud of yourself? Now think about how many of these life accomplishments …

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 …

Try. Fail. Try. Fail better. As I drove my youngest sister home from her first SAT exam a few weeks ago, this maxim surfaced in our conversation and it got …

I have just arrived back from sharing my work around the connection between Positive Psychology and gratitude with 180 people on the “Ocean of Gratitude Cruise,” which was a fabulous 8-day opportunity …

For twelve years I have begun my day with the same positive ritual. I wake up and head for the nearest window. I open the curtain and look outside. I …

It was a little over a year ago and I had just returned from a family vacation.  I sat down at the computer to read my email.  I had “unplugged” …

I recently gave notice at the job I have held for the last eleven months.  I place special emphasis on the word “job” because the actual day-to-day work in no …

Last weekend, I was at a gathering of college friends when one of them mentioned that her daughter had attended an Orthodox Jewish day camp one summer where she’d learned …