DaveShearon

Positive Psychology for lawyers and education leaders

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Work worth doing

Mar 2, 2010 7:53pm

Over 100 years ago, Theodore Roosevelt said, "Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." I just erased two paragraphs explaining why that statement is hitting me so hard right now. Just can't tell the stories. Even respecting anonymity,...

How happiness causes success

Feb 17, 2010 6:31pm

My monthly post is up over at PPND. Through three stories, I look at one way happiness, postivity, well-being -- call it what you will -- might cause long life, health, good relationships, and success....

Heartbreak (and other rejection) really hurts, and pain relievers really help!

Feb 3, 2010 5:07pm

Todd Kashdan, author of Curious?: Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life, has an interesting post up at his Psychology Today blog. It seems researchers have discovered that: people hate being excluded EVEN when playing a computer game with people they don't know and cannot see and whom they...

Flying High Cover

Jan 17, 2010 7:19pm

My monthly post is up over at Positive Psychology News Daily. It's for leaders implementing positive psychology approaches and deals with the necessity of "flying high cover."...

Meditation/Mindfulness - Now?

Jan 13, 2010 7:19pm

The research on the positive benefits of meditation/mindfulness is pretty powerful. Barbara Fredrickson, for one, has done some pretty serious research around it. (See Positivity.) I have felt pulled to develop more personal experience through keeping a regular, daily practice for a time. Now I see this, Winterfeast for the...

My monthly post is up over at Positive Psychology News Daily

Dec 17, 2009 8:24pm

It's a review of a book that's "right" for an audience that is suprisingly broader than it's title suggests, Martial Virtues by Charles D. Hackney, PhD....

Stand by Me!!

Dec 12, 2009 5:05am

Amazing. Uplifting. As Chris Peterson says, "Other people matter." Stand by Me from theRedPillRadio on Vimeo....

Thursday Tunes - Straight No Chaser's "12 Days of Christmas"

Dec 3, 2009 5:46am

This video is fun in several ways -- the excellence, the playfulness, and the way they handled the (probably forbidden) recording of their concert. Someone at my wife's office turned us on to these guys. Really great! For more of their videos and music, go to http://www.sncmusic.com/. Otherwise, enjoy!...

Hating Tim Ferris, Time Mangement, Lawyers & Kickboxing

Nov 21, 2009 4:37am

In researching yesterday's post, I came across this post on Penelope's Trunk Brazen Careerist. In it, she describes her highly negative reaction to Tim Ferris of The 4-Hour Workweek fame. She makes some interesting points, but not the one I am going to make here. I want to pick out...

Personal Productivity

Nov 20, 2009 7:11am

As a lawyer and, therefore, a "trained" procrastinator, I have been interested in the change in my attraction to the idea of productivity since completing MAPP. Basically, both the idea of setting goals and ways of better getting the work done to reach them struck me as offputting until just...