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The 4 Questions That Flip How You Approach Change (opens the original)
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Dear Happiness Seekers,I am struggling to sleep well right now. I wake up multiple times a night, head spinning. And the thing about sleep issues, for me at least, is that there is no shortage of advice, and the more I try it, the less it seems to work.In the past, that is exactly where I would have stayed: focused entirely on the problem. What is wrong, what am I doing wrong, why isn’t this working.This month, I am trying something different because in the episode #235, I sat down with Aderonke
The Question That Beats "What's Wrong?" (opens the original)
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Hello Happiness SeekersFor me personally, September has a way of feeling like a fresh chapter — back to school or work after holidays, that first cooler morning and signs of autumn. Psychologists call this the fresh start effect: when a moment gets framed as a new beginning, it creates a kind of line between your past self (who slipped, or got distracted, or didn’t follow through) and your future self (who feels more capable of trying again). Dai, Milkman, and Riis (2014, Management Science) fou
When Did You Last Look Up At the Sky? (opens the original)
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Dear Happiness Seekers,When was the last time you looked up at the sky? I hope your answer is “recently” because on the 12th August, we had one of the most remarkable sky events in a generation: the solar eclipse, with roughly 90% to 96% of the Sun covered by the Moon. It was the largest solar obscuration seen from the UK since 1999, and, of course, as many I was completely unprepared for it.I was travelling in the UK and the solar eclipse was not high on my agenda. My first instinct — wrong, an
Five Ways to Come Back to Work More Intentionally (opens the original)
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Dear Happiness Seekers,And we are back… Holidays are over, routines return, and inboxes begin filling faster than we would like.I think many of us feel tempted to dive straight back into “catch-up mode”—responding to every email, attending every meeting, and trying to regain momentum by simply working harder.But what if this September, instead of coming back to work by default, you came back more intentionally?Last September, on The Happiness Challenge podcast, I
Feeling Left Out This Summer? (opens the original)
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Dear Happiness Seekers, The other day I was sitting in my hairdresser’s chair when he started telling me about his upcoming holiday in Greece. In his story, he depicted crystal-clear water, lazy afternoons in the sun, fresh seafood by the sea….It sounded absolutely dreamy.And, if I am honest, I felt a little pang of Fear of Missing Out (FOMO). I think summer seems to have that effect. Our social feeds become endless highlight reels of sunsets, festivals, beach days, mountain hikes and cocktails
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