Positive Discipline

We all are searching for truth, for what is true. Paul Bloom summed up our lives into this quote, “We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.” Bloom mentions the good life, which urges the questions of what is the good life and how does one achieve it.…

Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness is a self-help type of book written by writer and teacher of positive psychology, Tal Ben-Shahar. He is also a consultant, expert on organizational behavior, and teaches an extremely popular course on “happiness” at Harvard University. In Choosing the Life You Want, Ben-Shahar wants to help you do exactly that—choose the life that you want to live. It is important to note that the book is comprised of about 102 chapters, although each is…

Throughout time man is possessed with the question, what is culture? The question results in two answers. There is one with positive feedback or one with negative feedback. Culture is dependent upon the influences of people and how they interact with each other in their said culture and others in a different said culture, by which they create societal norms for people to categorize themselves. The interpretation of what culture is or should be like differs upon each individual’s own beliefs.…

In the article “The Happy Secret to Better Work”, Shawn Achor talks about the reality of being happy and what it can do to your career. Achor relates happiness and positivity to a theory called positive psychology which is an outlook that can help people in the long run of their careers. Achor talks about happiness and how being creative and different can help their lives having skills in a variety of things. Achor wants people to fulfill their potential and succeed in life at their careers…

Finding Happiness Through Adaptation Bountiful theories have been developed overtime by students, journalists, scientists, and more on how to find joy. Some argue that you can’t force happiness while others insist that it is a feeling to be made. Whether happiness comes naturally or must be made depends on the temperament and perspective of each person who seeks it. When obstacles are thrown into peoples’ paths some get hung up while others brush them off as temporary eyesores in an overall…

1. Executive summary Blanchard and Hodges’ work on the ‘leadership’ is entirely focused on leadership which is selfless and only aims to serve the people who are following the leader. The true leadership is defined as an act of servant-ship to the people. This is the reason why the book is titled as “the servant leader.” The book aimed at creating an understanding of the ethical leadership which is completely selfless. The authors have tried to convince the audience with the idea of Jesus…

respect of everyone around you or if no one listens to you, you can have the title, but it would be fruitless. Through experience and attitude, good local leaders prosper into national and global leaders. One of my outlooks in life is to make a positive impact everywhere I go, even if it is a small impact. My leadership experience started at a local level in the first internship opportunity that I have ever had. During the summer of my senior year in high school, I interned at UnitedHealth Care…

Money and happiness, two completely separate things, that people tend to relate to each other. In other words, some believe that money can buy happiness. However, that is not the case. Happiness can be achieved in a million different ways, and everyone has a different type of happiness. Money might have to do with some people’s happiness, but to be truly happy one cannot depend on one’s paycheck. So, happiness is not determined by what one’s bank account can afford, but it is about the small…

I definitely agree with this quote, and any others like it. Happiness isn’t “outward things,” happiness isn’t worldly possessions. Happiness is found in the most organic aspects of life, in the sky, the flowers, the sunny days, friends and family, and in love. Money will always leave you wanting more, as well as power, or clothes, or a work position. Like Pahom in Leo Tolstoy’s short story, “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” Phaom had a nice plot of land, and for awhile he was under the illusion…

Many people think that life must be dancing in field of sunflowers happy for it to be worthwhile. That, however, is not the case. Dr. Kilpatrick explained that actually we only truly live when we accept that life is not always dancing in a field of sunflowers but can involve real adventure. Real adventure consists of real peril, real prohibition, have real decisions, and must bear the consequences of these decisions. Although these four things may not seem like the characteristics of a truly…