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My first reaction to unpleasant news is usually in frustration quickly followed by more positive thoughts, but what are some thoughts, practices, or phrases that may help me slow down before reacting or change the way I perceive things and react to them?

Startup founders face loneliness, and challenges like staying focused. I think Positive Psychology can help.

I'm developing a product (already launched) to help people with Executive Coaching, its AI but also helps find human coaches. I'm having a hard time finding executive Positive Psychology coaches, if you offer this, can I interview you, to learn more about what you do? I'm interviewing potential clients and hopefully get to interview some coaches to learn what the pain points are so we can develop the right product.

I need some help here. I either keep my mouth shut or open it up and sound like a jerk.

About me, first generation American from an immigrant family. Expressing yourself if it contradicted my parent was viewed as being disrespectful. Was raised to keep my eyes and ears open, and my mouth shut. We grew up blue collar and we’re told to listen to the boss cause he is the expert.

Resultingly, I have very poor assertiveness skills. My options are: A) keeping my mouth shut or B) express my thoughts but doesn’t come out well. Either aggressive, cold, direct, too on the nose. Too heavy handed.

Any advice or training to learn better communication skills to get my view out there but not a front anyone.

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I read Seligman’s chapter on GRIT in Flourish, seems to be a powerful concept but there wasn’t any advice how to increase it. Can anyone point out any research on this or any books? And if anyone is interested in running a research study I have a platform to do that.

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Thank you. 😊

I just got out if a friendship/situationship. Went two weeks no contact and was doing great! Then he texted me out of the blue. I asked for him to not reach out to me again but now I feel like I'm starting healing all over. Really want to go home andnclimb in bed and feel sorry for myself after but know that's not helpful and I should go exercise, see friends, etc... Any one have any tips for staying my positive, happy self through this? Podcasts? Book suggestions???

what do you think? do good things come through energy, manifesting or for doing good things? let me know what you think because I've been blessed by the universe and I don't know what I did right to deserve this luck.

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Hey all,

Are you interested in Positive Psychology?

I am conducting a 2-week positive psychology intervention titled; The relationship between the character strength of Appreciation of Beauty and well-being. There is a plethora of research outlining that practicing appreciating beauty daily can increase well-being and decrease depressive symptoms.

If you are interested in positive psychology or simply want to work on some self-development, please do participate! Participation involves answering a simple survey (about 10mins). You will receive guidelines aiding you in how to practice appreciating beauty, which you must do every day for two weeks. At the end of the two-weeks, you will be required to complete a post-test survey.

If you participate and do not adhere to the study every day, that’s completely fine! Please feel free to continue participating and complete the survey at the end.

This is a really cool way to work on some reflection and admiration, while also providing benefits for your mental health and well-being. You can also learn a lot about your personality, behaviour and emotions by answering the questionnaires involved. I would really appreciate any volunteers to take part! Thanks!

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I know that Quenza is HIPAA compliant, but what about other tools? Are Positive Psychology coaches 'covered entities'?

The tagalog line: "kung gusto, maraming paraan, kung ayaw, maraming dahilan" which I translated into "If you can, you have a way, if you can't, you have a reason".... btw what does mean? Also how can I overcome reason and make into a "way"?

I want to use positive psychology research to improve my happiness. Is there a book you can recommend that will give me recommendations I can use in my life? Also is there a way one can hire someone hourly like we hire doctors or psychologists? I’ve read Sonja Lyubomirsky, I might just buy one of her books again, the one I read had recommendations. Also I hate to say it but ChatGPT has been super helpful. Perhaps there are some research papers showing things to do to improve my outlook and wellbeing. I want proven recommendations for things to do in my life.

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I’ve always dealt with perfectionism and it shows up in all aspects of my life career, study, relationships beauty etc I want to be perfect, and I’ve always listen to the new age psychology experts consider perfectionism as a weakness, and that you should aim to kill it in life. But I really consider that might perfectionism allows me to progress in life and allows me to achieve the really big things that I have achieved so far. The term realistic standards. It always pisses me off, increases anxiety within me, because I’d rather strive for that great thing and achieve a rung or two below rather than being mediocre in life…

Gabriella Rosen Kellermann has presented the mattering map at a conference yesterday. Does anybody have papers on it or knows if she further explained it in any book?

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Hi everyone!

I teach a semester high school class on positive psychology and need some lesson plan ideas. We just finished learning about hedonic adaptation and how we can combat it through interruption of consumption and variety. We’ve discussed reference points and social media. We’ve explained the importance of experiences over materialism.

I need a lesson or two on interruption, variety, and/or social media. Something that shows them that by breaking up monotony and reducing reference points, they enjoy moments more.

Any thoughts?