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“I thought it was too simple to be effective,” said motivational speaker and executive coach,
Caroline Adams Miller, 44, of Bethesda, Md. “I went to Harvard. I’m used to things being
complicated.” Miller was assigned the task as homework in a master’s degree program. But as a
chronic worrier, she knew she could use the kind of boost the exercise was supposed to deliver.
She got it. “The quality of my dreams has changed; I never have trouble falling asleep and I do feel
happier,” she said.
Results may vary, as they say in the weight-loss ads. But that exercise is one of several that have
shown preliminary promise in recent research into how people can make themselves happier — not
just for a day or two, but long-term. It’s part of a larger body of work that challenges a long-standing
skepticism about whether that’s even possible.
Caroline Adams Miller, 44, of Bethesda, Md. “I went to Harvard. I’m used to things being
complicated.” Miller was assigned the task as homework in a master’s degree program. But as a
chronic worrier, she knew she could use the kind of boost the exercise was supposed to deliver.
She got it. “The quality of my dreams has changed; I never have trouble falling asleep and I do feel
happier,” she said.
Results may vary, as they say in the weight-loss ads. But that exercise is one of several that have
shown preliminary promise in recent research into how people can make themselves happier — not
just for a day or two, but long-term. It’s part of a larger body of work that challenges a long-standing
skepticism about whether that’s even possible.
| TIMING OF POSITIVE THINKING LINKED TO HEALTH BENEFITS |
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They stopped making
the "Whale of a Dad"
cake and replaced it
with this "Fudgie the
Whale Cake"
the "Whale of a Dad"
cake and replaced it
with this "Fudgie the
Whale Cake"