Maurine Patten's Articles

  • Are You Resilient?
    Resilience is the ability to maintain stable, healthy levels of psychological and physical functioning in the face of loss or stress from disruptive events. It is a skill that can be learned - even at an early age. Discover how your thoughts and beliefs affect your resilience. The way you choose to cope with what cannot be changed makes the difference in how resilient you can be. You can regain your momentum and feel good about who you are.
  • You Can Stop Feeling Frustrated
    Feelings of frustration are something we may feel occasionally. Because they hamper success, it is important to know what to do when this happens. It cam happen in your personal or professional life. If it isn't stopped, it will drain your energy. You can stop feeling frustrated and experience more satisfaction and fulfillment in your life by following four steps that help stop frustration, renew energy, and enhance productivity.
  • What Positive Psychology Can Do For You
    The term Positive Psychology was basically unknown five years ago. Now there are books, newspaper and magazine articles mentioning how we can be happier and live a more meaningful life based on the research from Positive Psychology. Chris Peterson, author of "A Primer in Positive Psychology", speaks about what has been learned about how to have a meaningful life. Learn how a more satisfying life is now an option with effort and support.
  • 6 Proven Secrets for Effective Goals
    Positive Psychology research indicates that there is value in setting goals. Learn how goals direct your attention by clarifying where you are going and motivate you to take action when you follow six proven secrets for effective goal setting. Think of a goal as a dream with a deadline. Start by looking at the possibilities in your life. Choose something that is meaningful, uses your strengths, and matches your values.
  • Too Busy? Try These 6 Tips
    People talk about not having enough time to get things done they need or want to do. While being busy makes you feel important and needed, it can fool you. Discover 6 tips that will help you manage your time more effectively. Authors Loehr and Schwartz stress the need to balance expending and renewing your energy to be at your best. Following one or more of these tips, you wil find that you are accomplishing and enjoying more of what you do.
  • 3 Principles Of Success
    Success is personal. When you are successful with something, you are pleased with the outcome. Principles are guidelines to help you achieve something that is important. They simplify data so that you do not get overwhelmed. Following three principles of success from personal development experts will help you keep steadily moving forward so that you will achieve the success you are striving for.
  • Do You Want to Be Wiser?
    Wisdom is defined as judging rightly and following the soundest course of action. Some researchers believe it is a "master" strength which guides your other strengths. It is learned through experience, not taught. Wisdom grows by the successful resolution of crises and hardships. Choose from a checklist of ways to improve practical wisdom. You will benefit by having an increased sense of calmness about choices you make in your life.
  • Do You Want To End A Tough Year With Gratitude?
    Are you looking forward to the New Year? New research points to gratitude as a key to your health and happiness. Robert Emmons book, Thanks! (2007)sheds light on the benefits of gratitude. For a life changing experience, specific suggestions from Positive Psychology research are given to help you tune into what is good in your life.
  • Do You Know the Key Ingredient to Make Your Holiday Season Bright?
    Numerous religious holidays will be celebrated during a 6 week period in December and January. One ingredient, in the form of a character strength, can make your holiday bright. That strenth is spirituality which can be seen as a search for the sacred. No matter what your religious beliefs are, you can deepen your character strength of spirituality by following some of the suggestions to make this your brightest holiday season ever.
  • Do You Need to Balance Your Life?
    Living in a world that keeps changing almost faster than time itself, can cause a time crunch to get things done. To avoid being overwhelmed, it is important to strive for balance and stay focused. However, focusing on something can cause you to lose the sense of balance in your life. There is a way to consider what needs to be done and how each item is tied to your values. Six additional suggestions help create a feeling of inner balance.
  • The Route to Happiness
    Research indicates happiness can be learned or increased. It is something you make happen. Seligman defines 3 types of happiness that can lead to a pleasant life, a good life, and/or a meaningful life. Having all three leads to a full life. Positive emotions broaden your intellectual, physical, and social resources. Follow the route to happiness by learning the important internal states which can be controlled to increase positive emotions.
  • Do You Know the Key Ingredients to Feel Fulfilled?
    During the last 5 years there is increasing evidence supporting the association of happiness/fulfillment with life and being able to use your strengths. Now, there is information which tells us which strengths are necessary and the ingredients the brain needs to experience fulfillment. Do you have these five strengths? If you are not strong in these strengths, it is possible to increase them, and find the key to increasing your fulfillment.
  • Create a Meaningful Life
    Most people want their life to be meaningful. Sometimes you may struggle finding what will give you that special feeling of meaning. To begin, consider the conditions necessary to give meaning "within" life by answering two important questions. In addition, consider the three conditions Jonathan Haidt describes needed for feelings of meaning to exist. By establishing these three conditions, life becomes more meaningful.
  • What You Need Before You Are Motivated
    It is wonderful to feel motivated. In contrast, you probably have had times of feeling unmotivated. While different people are motivated by a variety of things, there are three decisions you can make that will help you be fully motivated. If you find it difficult to make one or more of these decisions, there are small, beginining steps you can take to move you in the right direction.
  • Do You Want To Ask Powerful Questions?
    We all ask questions on a daily basis. Some you direct to others and some to yourself. If you want to get the best answer to your questions, you need to be sure you have asked the right questions. Some words have more power than others. A good question provides the information you need and satisfies three requirements. If change and action are what you are looking for, asking more powerful questions can alter your perception and attitude.

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