Author: Stephanie Hills

  • Three Bits of Silliness

  • Support at the Supermarket

    Keisha writes: “I had to run to the supermarket to pick up a few items. I noticed the woman ahead of me paying with her benefits card begin to put almost two bags of items back on the conveyor belt, while the cashier deducted the items from the total. Her back turned to me, as […]

  • Humour at Work

    Isn’t it uplifting when you work alongside someone with a sense of humour! Some people have a natural gift for making you laugh at just the right moment; others are great at appreciating humour, sharing cartoons and lightening the mood with their laughter. (Of course, I’m talking here about upbeat or silly humour, not the […]

  • Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out

    by Marci Shimoff, with Carol Kline Being truly happy means: having a sense of lightness or buoyancy; feeling alive, vital, energetic; having a sense of flow, openness; feeling love and compassion for yourself and others; having passion about your life purpose; feeling gratitude, forgiveness; being at peace with life and being fully present in the […]

  • Mother’s advice

    John: You know, it’s moments like these when I wish I’d been listening           to what my mother was always trying to tell me. Jill: What did she say? John: I don’t know, I wasn’t listening.

  • Bring out the Best

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  • Staying upbeat despite the moaners

    Two long term studies of couples showed that partners’ happiness scores tend to become more similar over time.  That’s not surprising, but what’s alarming is that it’s the happier one whose mood declines to match their partner’s, while the more miserable person remains relatively stable. Many of us have probably experienced this at work too, […]

  • Best man for the job

    Mick and Tom both applied for the same job. Since both applicants had similar qualifications, they were asked to take a test by the interviewer. When the results were in, both men had scored 19 out of 20. The interviewer went to Mick and said, “Thank you for coming to the interview, but we’ve decided […]

  • Neighbourly acts of kindness

    Steve writes: “Often, little things make an enormous difference – the lady over the road from me will bring a box of oranges, and eggs from her chickens occasionally, and I am so thankful for that.” Knowing that someone cares enough about you to bring you a gift, is valued even more than the material […]

  • Nature, nurture or circumstance?

    At New Year we often think about changes we’d like to make in our lives. To do so, we need to believe that we are not destined to stay the same forever. In other words, we need to have a ‘growth mindset.’ If you believe that people are born either good or bad at something […]