by Madelaine Weiss | Jul 31, 2023 | Emotion, Happiness, Mind Mastery, Stress, Success
What is Happiness? Happiness is something that happens in the brain involving the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, anterior cingulated cortex, and insular cortex, and neurotransmitters such as endorphin, dopamine, serotonin, nor-epinephrine, and melatonin....
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Hedonic Treadmill Too many people think things like money, career success, romantic relationships… are the key to their happiness. I hear it a lot in the early days of my work with a client. Typically, they have been trying as hard as they can to make these things...
by Madelaine Weiss | Sep 27, 2022 | Happiness, Play, Stress, Success, Time, Work
What Free Time? Last time we talked about post pandemic ‘time warping’: “All of a sudden everything went on stop.… We could not be the people we were used to being in the world anymore,” says health psychologist Alison Holman of the University of California, Irvine....
by Madelaine Weiss | Aug 21, 2022 | Emotion, Happiness, Success, Time
What is Procrastination? Procrastination is “to put off intentionally the doing of something that should be done.” On average, people spend 2 hours and 25 minutes/day procrastinating, much of it fooling around on the internet, even though 94% say it is adversely...
by Madelaine Weiss | Mar 15, 2021 | Decisions, Emotion, Life, Mind Mastery
International Day of Happiness is March 20th. But happiness isn’t something that happens to us once a year on the calendar. Happiness is something we do, and there is plenty good reason to do it more often than many of us do. Who Cares About Happiness? Aristotle...
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