Allow Your Business To Grow By Finding Your Flow
On this first Sunday evening of December 2011, I’m asking myself how I can start doing more of what I’m good at and stop doing all the other stuff I feel I need to do… I get into my flow when I do what I love doing and what I know I do well; and [...]
Do you take pride in your work and thoroughly enjoy what you do at work each day? Well, many would say that they just do a mundane job, and that there is little to enjoy in their responsibilities. Not correct! And I can prove it… Just visit the men’s arrival wash rooms at the Johannesburg [...]
The joy of working in the entrepreneurial space can be endless, as early stage investor Permjot Valia wrote in his recent blog after attending Seedcamp. The objective of Seedcamp is to connect “next generation entrepreneurs” with mentors from “a top-tier network of company builders” in Europe. “I am feeling very happy right now, despite having [...]
It’s amazing that the degree of fulfilment and joy we experience – including in our work and productive tasks – is wholly determined by the way our brains are wired. And what’s more amazing is that we can improve these experiences by changing this wiring! While there isn’t a foolproof prescription for making yourself a [...]
Happiness is a workplace issue and should be firmly entrenched in all management strategies for productivity. Happiness and life satisfaction, observes Ray Williams of Success IQ University in Psychology Today, is increasingly measured by economists and psychologists, and should no longer be seen as an abstract concept. So why should we be focussing on how [...]
Random acts of kindness make the person performing the kind act happier when they’re grouped together within a shorter time period. Experimental psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky found in her happiness research that doing something for other people five times in one single day makes you happier than if you spread out those five acts over a [...]
Chip Conley, CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality. says we need a new way to count. GDP measures tangibles for countries, and profit does the same for businesses. But if we aim to create customer loyalty, committed staff and satisfied investor, what should we really be measuring to ensure success? See this very informative TED [...]
How can you experience more happiness in your life? Easy, says psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky. Here are eights steps she suggested to Time Magazine readers a while back: 1. Count your blessings. One way to do this is with a “gratitude journal” in which you write down three to five things for which you are currently [...]
People who once a week write down five things they are grateful for are happier than those who do it three times a week. “It’s an issue of timing or frequency. When people do anything too often it loses the freshness and meaning. You need to have optimal timing,” according to Sonja Lyubomirsky, an experimental [...]
Is it useful at all to measure happiness? And if it is, what are the metrics we should use to provide meaningful insights that will help people to improve the quality of their lives? I just completed the Authentic Happiness Inventory test myself and scored 4.04. It does not really help me much to know [...]
“Christoff Oosthuysen has the ability to bring you back to basics in a nice way and ensure that these basics are covered properly before moving on and getting too far ahead of yourself. He has valuable insights into how entrepreneurs think, and therefore act accordingly. Flow Finders is a great way of bringing this to the fore.”
