Success Skills: Positivity

An important key to success is positivity -- the quality of being confident, optimistic, and cooperative. This is a personal attribute that can be enhanced and strengthened by your own efforts. You can also learn optimism and happiness.

In psychology a new field of positive psychology has begun to explore this factor and to offer suggestions and programs for increasing your positive feelings and happiness. Martin Seligman leads this effort that has the support of the American Psychology Association.

This lens views the subject from the perspective of an ordinary, grumbling, mumbling pessimist.

The Underpinnings of Success

Brian Tracey and Jim Rohn

Listen to a quick and persuasive explanation of the core of success:

Self-discipline - self-esteem - self-confidence = success

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Online Resources for Learning to Be More Positive

Reflective Happiness: A subscription site for access to the latest thinking on the subject of happiness based on the concepts of positive psychology and operated by Martin Seligman. Monthly mailings of exercises, readings, FAQs, bookclub and so on.
Consumer site.
Authentic Happiness: Free news about positive psychology, free tests including the VIA Strengths Survey which indentifies your greatest strengths. Subscribe to the newsletter. The official Seligman site to promote the book Authentic Happiness. Consumer-oriented
The Positive Power of Negative Thinking: How to use your pessimistic thoughts to balance your positive actions and avoid making boo-boos.
Julie Norem wrote a book of the same name as her web site.
Human Happiness: This is an online book by MICHAEL W. FORDYCE, Ph.D. on the nature and attainment of happiness. But don't be mislead -- it is not boringly academic. Read this practical info and apply it to your life.
Assets-based Thinking: Watch the video about working from your strengths, then visit the website.

Success Skills Workshop

Positivity is just one of the lenses in the Success Skills Workshop at Squidoo. Visit this lens to learn about the others.

Success Skills Workshop: This is the umbrella site and the Agenda for all the modules of the online Success Skills Workshop.

Positive Psychology: The REAL Science of Success Blog

by Stephen Kraus, Success Scientist, PhD. in Social Psychology

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