Shawn Achor defines happiness as “the joy you feel moving towards your potential.” It is not pleasure which is short-lived; joy invests more deeply. In fact, you may feel joy even in those moments that are not pleasurable. For example, have you felt joy at the conclusion of a tough, nail-biting team sport? Whether you were watching or playing? Have you felt joy at the end of robust workplace conversations that have resulted in growth, development and other positive outcomes for the parties involved?
A couple of reflection questions for you:
- How do you define happiness?
- What moments have you experienced that were not pleasurable but have brought you joy?
If you’d like to see Shawn’s talk, you can find it here; it runs for less than 1.5 minutes:
- What are the "interconnections" for you?
- What memories and stories are you reminded of?
- Where do these photos take your imagination?
- What are the emotions that are evoked for you? Why these emotions?
Attached is a link to a short TedTalks (~4 mins) that we thought you might enjoy. Amongst other messages, Camille Seaman talks about "we're all interconnected" ... as I watched this talk, I thought about collaboration amongst teams/departments and more;
http://www.ted.com/talks/camille_seaman_haunting_photos_of_ice
Additional thoughts and ideas that came up for me included:
- "continuation of the past" ... honouring the work that has been done before and building upon it
- "some icebergs are 1,000s of years old, some 100's of years old" ... regardless of the amount of time in an organisation/team, we all bring new skills, knowledge, experiences and strengths
- "a different side of its' personality" ... we are all different and we all adapt
What comes up for you as you watch and listen?
There are awesome photos and an amazing video of an iceberg rolling. Enjoy!
An offer from insium for your wellbeing! Newsletter January 2016 Featured
Written by geoff Wednesday, 27 January 2016 00:00
We're at the end of January and I hope you've had a great start to 2016 ... however you define great!
This great start may have been serendipitous for you or may have been planned. We know that if we plan and have goals, we are more likely to achieve these and celebrate success ... however success is defined for you.
So what plans and goals do you have for your success in 2016?
The start of a new year often sees people considering what lies ahead for the upcoming 12 months. At insium, we'd like to see people consider their own well-being and how they can look after "self" in 2016. With this in mind, we'd like to share some Wellbeing apps (available on both iOS and Android) that we find useful:
- Values Ink helps identify values; if we live to values we are more aligned, authentic and hence, more resilient
- Buddhify 2: this is a quite targeted mindfulness app
- Mood Meter: helps identify emotions, thereby building emotional vocabulary which helps in emotional management
- Smiling Mind: a meditation app
Check them out - we hope that they may be of use to you.