Let me extend my best wishes for the New Year.

I think you’ll have to agree that these are interesting times.  It
doesn’t take a lot of effort to find things to be concerned about
these days.

I’ve been impressed with the amount of distress I see in people.
It is certainly understandable in someone who’s lost their job or
home (or both), but I see it even in people where that isn’t the
case.

Most people’s day to day life isn’t that different now than it was
a year ago, yet their sense of well-being has plummeted.

Maybe their home no longer has the market value it had a year ago
and their retirement savings have shrunk, but they still have their
home, their health, their loved ones, worthwhile work, and so on.
Really, their day-to-day life, what they actually experience
personally, is no different than it was a year ago.

Even so, their quality of life has changed because of a change in
mindset. Continue Reading » Using Positive Psychology

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