A couple of months ago I wrote about Julie Powell – the real Julie from the Julie & Julia movie (you can read my earlier post here). Julie’s year long cooking project, and the blog she wrote about her project, is such a cool example of how quirky, creative (very broadly defined) personal “projects” or [...]
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The University of Canterbury Magazine article I mentioned in yesterday’s post can be read at the link below
Just the article
University of Canterbury Magazine – interview with Dr Alice Boyes by Breeze Robertson
Full Magazine
If you’d like to look at the full magazine or past editions of the magazine, you can find them here
http://www.comsdev.canterbury.ac.nz/canterbury/archive.shtml
I’m in 2009 Vol [...]
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Last week I did a phone interview with world-leading Positive Psychologist (i.e. happiness scientist) Professor Barb Fredrickson.
Martin Seligman has called Barb Fredrickson “the Genius of the Positive Psychology Movement”.
Barb is author of the 2009 book Positivity: Groundbreaking Research Reveals How to Embrace the Hidden Strength of Positive Emotions, Overcome Negativity, and Thrive.
Here’s our conversation. [...]
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This is the third “Make Your Own Kind of Music” Interview. This time the interviewee is Publicity Expert for Creative-Types and Independents, and quirky New Yorker, Stephanie Schroeder.
I met Stephanie through “House Swapping”. She stayed at my sister’s flat in London while my sister stayed at her apartment in Brooklyn. I got the chance [...]
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This is the second interview in the “Make Your Own Kind of Music” series.
I’m very excited to share it because the interviewee is freakin awesome!
Stephanie Griest has written two travel memoirs:
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This is the first article in the “Make Your Own Kind of Music” Interview Series. You can read about the other interviews at the link.
If you know Jen already, skip down to the Interview. The interview includes lots of personal behind-the-scenes info about Jen and Ryan, and about the Transmission (I also asked about Hawaii [...]
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It’s been an exciting last couple of weeks. Here’s why.
Something I’ve noticed in my work as a clinical psychologist is that lots of people don’t have a clear picture of what their dreams are: they don’t know what they really, really want for themselves and their relationships.
This especially is common when people are experiencing problems [...]
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You can get the unabridged audiobook version of The How of Happiness (download it to your computer in a few minutes) COMPLETELY FREE with this free trial of Audible The How of Happiness Audiobook.
The How of Happiness: A new approach to getting the life you want.
Reading time for this article: 10 minutes (there is [...]
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