Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Mothers and happiness!

Today, another video from Marcus Buckingham. Marcus Buckingham is a British-American New York Times bestselling author, researcher, motivational speaker and business consultant best known for promoting what he calls "Strengths." Basing most of his writing on extensive survey data from interviews with workers in countries around the world, he promotes the idea that people will get the best results by making the most of their strengths rather than by putting too much emphasis on weaknesses or perceived deficiencies.


In this clip Marcus is on the Joy Behar show, and my favourite quote of the segment is when Joy describes his new book as "how Mothers can be happy without Prozac".

Enjoy and make sure you take some time today to "catch and cradle".  Thanks Marcus.

Monday, February 4, 2013

What do strengths have to do with it? Part Two


What do strengths have to do with it? Part One


Here is a great video from Marcus Buckingham about how strengths can facilitate wellbeing in your career and personal life. It is a little long but I highly recommend you taking the time to view it if you are intrigued by the notion of YOUR strengths.