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Learning to be optimistic

Would you say you’re a pessimist or an optimist? And does it matter in the workplace?
I have just read both Authentic Happiness and the earlier Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman (see 3D HR Bookstore). Having spend years practicing ‘normal’ psychology of helping people move from say -6 to -2, Seligman posed the question [...]

Past future and present

The New Year is traditionally a time to take stock, to look forward, to make resolutions. Experience shows how useful or useless this tradition is. What I have found helpful is a three-stage process of

Process the past
Plan the future
Action the present

If I live orientated towards the future, always making plans and setting [...]