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July: A Whole Month of Happiness and Wellbeing
Posted on 01. Jul, 2011 by Julia Barnard.
July is the seventh month of the year and is named after Julius Caesar. This month there really is a reason to be happy as International Happiness Day is celebrated. As such I will provide you with some simple tips to help you not only celebrate this day, but to be used at any time. [...]
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10 Time Saving Strategies That Will Also Increase Happiness
Posted on 25. May, 2010 by Julia Barnard.
We all hope to get more time from our day. Most of us, I imagine also want to be happier. This article discusses ways to better manage your time that will help increase your overall mood. 1 Limit television watching to one hour a day By setting this time restriction on your habit, you have [...]
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Be More Patient
Posted on 24. Mar, 2010 by Julia Barnard.
How patient are you? How do you cope when the person ahead of you in the queue at the supermarket cannot find their purse, forgets their pin, rambles on to the shop assistant and still doesn’t leave once their transaction is complete? How about with yourself? Do you get annoyed when things end up being [...]
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Get Energised
Posted on 24. Dec, 2009 by Julia Barnard.
“The difference between one person and another is not mere ability, it is energy.” Thomas Arnold You can have the best plans in the world. You can be full of ideas and inspiration. But if you don’t have the energy to actually implement your ideas, you’re not going to get very far. Even worse, your [...]
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The Life of a Panda can be Yours!
Posted on 24. Dec, 2009 by Julia Barnard.
Two giant pandas have recently arrived in Australia for their ten year vacation at Adelaide Zoo. They are called Wang Wang and Funi. Pandas are one of my favourite animals, so I’m looking forward to being able to wander down and visit them. When I reflect on the life of a panda, it occurs to [...]
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The Benefits of Lifelong Learning and Discovery
Posted on 20. Apr, 2009 by Julia Barnard.
Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Louis E. Boone Do you enjoy learning? Is it a pleasure to discover new things, or do you associate the word ‘learning’ with being sat behind a [...]
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An Introduction to Person Centred Therapy
Posted on 14. Dec, 2008 by Julia Barnard.
Person Centred Therapy was pioneered by Carl Rogers. Originally known as nondirective counselling in the 1940s, it was renamed Client-Centred Therapy in the 1950s and finally renamed Person Centred Therapy in the 1970s. Rogers caused a shift in thinking away from medical models of mental health, where people were regarded as sick and in need [...]
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Putting off Happiness
Posted on 14. Sep, 2008 by Julia Barnard.
There’s always something to do right? Everyday something new comes along to take up your energies. You have a huge list of tasks to do and you say to yourself that once these are done, then you will do the things that bring you pleasure. How often has it happened that you never quite get [...]
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Stop Ruminating: Life’s Too Short
Posted on 14. Sep, 2008 by Julia Barnard.
We worry about many things, from the small to the large, things from our past, future happenings and current situations. For some, this is a time to ruminate. The worries are going around their head and there does not seem an end to it. They just cannot stop thinking about it. There is no thought [...]
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The Character Strengths of Transcendence
Posted on 28. Aug, 2008 by Julia Barnard.
If you want to increase your happiness, one way is through nurturing your character strengths. Positive psychologists have identified 24 strengths which can be divided into 6 distinct virtues. In this article I will talk about the strengths which make up the virtue ‘transcendence’: appreciation of beauty, , , spirituality and playfulness and humour. In [...]
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