Ideas, behaviours that enable, enrich, empower, enlighten
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 18/09/2010 - 9:38am
It's to me quite amazing how much we can ignore some simple concepts that are so hugely important to our wellbeing.
In a LGGO meeting recently we got talking about what "great outcomes" really mean.
Submitted by Steaphen on Wed, 15/09/2010 - 7:46am
Last night as I watched a televised studio-debate on sexual harassment in the workforce, I found that I was feeling increasingly troubled. This trouble I sense is of particular relevance and importance to those who want to get great outcomes (This post was originally written as a blog article on my Belief Doctor website - hence its long-winded style, but is now read-only to the LGGO Groups).
During the debate about how bad and uneducated the perpetrators were it seemed to me that a great big elephant in the room was being steadfastly ignored.
Submitted by Steaphen on Fri, 10/09/2010 - 5:06am
While chatting with a very interesting, dynamic entrepreneur and scientist, the subject of fear was discussed.
While initially the idea that death was our greatest fear, I remembered that studies reveal our greatest fear, or at least what is held at the forefront of our cares and concerns, is public speaking.
It seems to me that public speaking is indicative of our fear of others, not of death. Thinking and chatting on it in more depth, we realised that it is fear of what others think that mostly constrains or limits our behaviours.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Wed, 22/02/2012 - 6:47am
Any conception of happiness that focuses on 'me' and 'my wants' is ultimately barren, Ross Gittins explains.
Most of the academic study of happiness relies on surveys that ask people to rate their satisfaction with their lives on a scale of, say, one to 10. That's a bit broader, but recent research suggests people's answers to such a question are too greatly influenced by how they were feeling at the time they were asked.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 17/12/2011 - 5:58am
MOST couples assume having children will make them happier. But time and again researchers find parents are no happier than childless couples. More often children seem to bring unhappiness.
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Husbands and wives both ''benefit when they embrace an ethic of marital generosity that puts the welfare of their spouse first," write the researchers Elizabeth Marquardt and W. Bradford Wilcox in the Atlantic magazine.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Fri, 02/09/2011 - 10:08am
A healthy social life may be as good for your long-term health as avoiding cigarettes, according to a massive research review released Tuesday by the journal PLoS Medicine.
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those with poor social connections had on average 50% higher odds of death in the study's follow-up period (an average of 7.5 years) than people with more robust social ties.
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The immune systems of people with lots of friends simply worked better, fighting off the cold virus often without symptoms.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sun, 31/07/2011 - 2:30am
FINANCIAL stress is the equivalent of a cold shower.
A survey by Relationships Australia has revealed that people's sex lives improve along with their income - and that the magic number for satisfaction starts at about $80,000.
Only 44 per cent of people with a household income under $60,000 a year are sexually active, compared with 81 per cent of people with a household income of more than $80,000 a year.
