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the scientific reason why smiling works
This week in Sunday Life I smile Recently reader Richard wrote to say he didn’t like that in the photos of me as a kid (I believe he’d been Facebook-stalking my family albums) I’m always scowling....
View Articlemy Sunday Night interview with the Dalai Lama
I interviewed His Holiness for Sunday Night on Channel Seven. Here it is… I mentioned on Twitter at the time…afterwards I was in the hotel lobby working on my laptop and he and his entourage bustled...
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how’s this new happiness trick: do the opposite
This week in Sunday Life I do the opposite Photo by Angela Boatwright George Costanza is not one of life’s most inspired or bountiful contributors. But there are two things I give him full props for:...
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I find what happy women get right
This week in Sunday Life I’m unbalanced Photo by Eugene Tan via Aquabumps I believe I’ve found the very latest first-world lament. “I’m so sick of trying to get enough ‘me time’,” my friend Sal shared...
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a *fresh* technique for working out your life values
This week in Sunday Life I find my sweet spot Photo by klaus pichler It always surprises me when I come back as a “glass half full” type in aptitude tests because there are few people more down on...
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are you all dress rehearsal, no play?
It’s hit me just recently: this is the rest of my life. This awareness has arisen because I’ve had to face a few realities lately. Image by Ben Javens I’ve led my life thinking it would look a certain...
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happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens
I’m facing a big challenge at the moment. It’s something that’s been building up for a while: finding out what life is like – and what I’m like – when there is no “something next”. When nothing is...
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Why my battle to tame my wandering is a good one
A thought. I was reading the follow-up to a wellbeing study I’d heard about ages ago that uses a phone app to track real-time moments in happiness. Image from serialthriller.com Psychologist Matthew...
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Each of us is responsible for everything
I’ve been reading Simone De Beuvoir’s The Blood of Others. It’s a grating read. It cuts to the pain of an ethical quandary that I feel should grate at us all – are we responsible for everything? Or...
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new words for happiness and love
I’ve been tracking a bunch of lovely, evocative words that have no English equivalent for a while. There’s a joy to learning these “loanwords”. They remind us that there are still things out there that...
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