40 Tips for a Happier Life
05/03/11 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in:
Happiness
Since the end of the 90s a new branch
of the science, also known as Positive Psychology has been dealing
with the essentials for happiness. In order to help you find out
which happiness potentials are maybe lying idle with you, I have
summarized the 40 most important insights on the subject
“happiness” in an abbreviated format in the following “checklist”.
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Do what you enjoy doing!
The American psychologist Mihály
Csikszentmihályi did research on the subject of happiness in
the middle 70s and came to the conclusion that people experienced
the most happiness when they were in a state that he called „Flow“.
Flow means that we are totally immersed in an activity
while everything else becomes secondary. Time and space,
even our own needs recede and lose their significance. We are
totally concentrated, the task completely absorbs us, and we merge
with whatever we are doing, so to speak. This is indeed an
important character strength for the achievement of your happiness:
Enthusiasm! Enthusiasm represents the ability to meet the world
with excitement and energy, to be totally involved with what one
happens to be doing at the time. Continue
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How to find a job that makes you happy
05/08/09 by Felicitas Heyne | Filed in:
Career
On iPersonic we do offer you important
resources for your dream job search with our career test and our iPersonic Career
Profile. An article I recently came across demonstrates the
desperate need for this. Its content with the heading “Every third
person dislikes his/her job” shocked me. The results of a
representative survey conducted on behalf of the German Labor Union
gives food for thought:
Of the 6168 questioned on average only 12% described their work as “good”, 54% as “mediocre” and for 34% it was just “bad”.
The numbers fluctuated somewhat depending on the professional branch; when asked the unskilled laborers – who is surprised – were especially dissatisfied. Not one of them liked his/her work and 61% responded to the question with “bad”. Temporary workers turned out to be above average unhappy, as well. One the other hand, engineers and members of professions involving natural sciences were satisfied with their work 23% above average while 21% were the most seldom dissatisfied. According to the study they have a “high measure of influence- and development opportunities, meaningful work, a minimum of physical and emotional stress, a commensurate income combined with a high degree of professional security and supportive, development- and learn conducive work organizations- and environments.” Continue reading ...
Of the 6168 questioned on average only 12% described their work as “good”, 54% as “mediocre” and for 34% it was just “bad”.
The numbers fluctuated somewhat depending on the professional branch; when asked the unskilled laborers – who is surprised – were especially dissatisfied. Not one of them liked his/her work and 61% responded to the question with “bad”. Temporary workers turned out to be above average unhappy, as well. One the other hand, engineers and members of professions involving natural sciences were satisfied with their work 23% above average while 21% were the most seldom dissatisfied. According to the study they have a “high measure of influence- and development opportunities, meaningful work, a minimum of physical and emotional stress, a commensurate income combined with a high degree of professional security and supportive, development- and learn conducive work organizations- and environments.” Continue reading ...