We need some good news We start the new year with all kinds of dire predictions about 2019. Well, here is some good news – The Happiness Course is running again! You’ll remember that I ran The Happiness Course last September here in SE London. It was a great success, and some of the comments […]
Growth and development
So – how did The Happiness Course go?
The Happiness Course in London Over the past weeks, I’ve been running The Happiness Course in Sydenham, SE London. I always enjoy such times, but on this occasion it was a little bit special. There were twelve participants, aged from twenties to seventies, and ethnically very diverse – always a recipe for fun and fruitful […]
Happiness – or joy? (Part 2)
Joy – the story so far In Part 1 of this post, we began to explore the differences between happiness and joy. For a start, the two words began life a long time ago from very different standpoints. Happiness seems to have arisen through the rather random experience of luck (“It just happened to turn […]
Happiness – or joy? (Part 1)
Happiness – what we all appear to want You can’t listen to the news or read magazines and articles for long these days without coming across something to do with happiness. We seem to be almost obsessed with the subject. If you do a Google search on the word, you get 645 million results (at […]
The next Happiness Course
It’s been a while… It’s been quite a while since I last advertised The Happiness Course, but I can now announce the next one. It will run for 4 weeks on Tuesday evenings, from 18 September until 9 October, in Sydenham, SE London. What’s it all about? Read on… Everyone wants to be happy! But, […]
Live full – die empty
I was in the gym some time ago and saw this slogan It was on someone’s t-shirt: “Live full – die empty.” I liked it – or at least half liked it… I liked the idea of living life to the full. I presume what he had in mind was… The experience of enjoying every […]
