Showing posts with label barbara fredickson. Show all posts
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Friday, August 12, 2011

IPPA, Love and Gary Russo

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A year ago I was attempting to yet again clarify the message I bring to my work and my clients.  This is what I wrote in my journal on August 12, 2010:
Science has proven what we instinctively knew – love is the answer no matter what the question, forgiveness is the key difference to creating a successful life lived forward or a distressful life stuck in the past.  atg 081210
At the IPPA Second World Conference, Positive Psychology luminary, Barbara Fredrickson, clarified what the emotion 'love' is when referred to as an emotion that builds and broadens well-being or happiness in an individual's life.  Love is the experience of positive emotions which are noticed in the momentary increase in the well-being of another, causing a sychronistic response that builds over time.*
Defining love in this manner explains why an entertainer -- like Gary Russo -- can feel love when he performs on his lunch hour to a group of people he does not know. 
Now here is something incredibly cool.  The photo in this blog was taken a few weeks ago at Barbara Fredrickson's presentation at IPPA.  The shadow of the mic is part of the original photo.  It just so happened that where I was sitting all of my photos of the slides had the mic in the way.  I was originally disappointed. Now that I am writing Don't Die with Your Song Unsung with Gary Russo, and the theme of that book is love, it feels more like it was meant to be there all along. 

*This is my interpretation of the slide presented.  The actual research is yet to be released. 

Happy singing, Andrea
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DrSuccess@ServingSuccess

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Love is a Business Attribute

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PositivityDr. Success Challenge:  As you go about your business day -- and the business of your life today -- consider sharing joy.  The groundbreaking research of Positivity found 'joy' to be an attribute of 'love'. 

Before the research was ever conceived, two prominent minds contributed these words of wisdom:

"To get the full value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with."  Mark Twain
and

"When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.  Soren Kierkegaard
Thank you to my friends at Heartmath, leaders in developing systems to help us enjoy the relief of  stress and greater life love.

Andrea T. Goeglein, PhD
DrSuccess@ServingSuccess.com
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