The Power of Hope

Hope can alter how you view yourself

Hope structures your life in anticipation of the future and influences how you feel in the present. Similar to optimism, hope creates a positive mood about an expectation, a goal, or a future situation. Such mental time travel influences your state of mind and alters your behavior in the present. The positive feelings you experience as you look ahead, imagining hopefully what might happen, what you will attain, or who you are going to be, can alter how you currently view yourself. Along with hope comes your prediction that you will be happy, and this can have behavioral consequences.

Hope shapes your methods of traversing your current situation. The cognitions associated with hope--how you think when you are hopeful--are pathways to desired goals and reflect a motivation to pursue goals (Snyder, Harris, Anderson, & Holleran, 1991). Better problem-solving abilities have been found in people who are hopeful when compared with low-hope peers (Change, 1998), and those who are hopeful have a tendency to be cognitively flexible and able to mentally explore novel situations (Breznitz, 1986).

How Do Executives Survive?

by Carl Beuke, Ph.D

Eight lessons your manager can teach you about thriving at work 

Life as a senior manager is harder than most people think. Long hours, crushing workloads, multiple and constant pressures, and incessant conflict and unpopularity often come with the job. Yet executives are typically healthier and happier than the rest of us. How do they do it?

The myth of the fat, lazy executive 

Some people like to stereotype managers as lazy fat cats who earn a living by passing on all the hard work to other people. Undoubtedly a few such individuals exist, but they are not typical. Managers work longer hours than most other occupations, with around 45% of all managers working at least 45 hours a week. The average manager starts each Monday morning with a to-do list containing around 200 items. Nor is the work always easy - by some estimates, the average manager spends 20 to 40% of their time dealing with conflict, and 50% of managers fail. The typical manager also has family responsibilities in addition to coping with his or her workload.

The ‘fat' part of the stereotype of managers is also overstated. American male managers have an obesity rate of 25%, while females have a rate of 20%, compared to an average of 25% for the rest of the population and 28% for the middle aged (probably a better comparison group). More importantly, managers are healthier and happier than the average for the population. How do effective managers meet the challenges of their roles while staying sane and in good health?

Trik Jadikan Pekerjaan Ladang Kebahagiaan

PEKERJAAN dan kebahagiaan, dua hal yang sebagian orang menganggapnya berada di kutub berbeda. Dengan beberapa trik, Anda bisa merasakan kebahagiaan lewat aktivitas pekerjaan sehari-hari.

Untuk menulis bukunya, Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way, Dan Buettner bekerja sama dengan psikolog dan ilmuwan untuk mencari orang-orang paling bahagia di dunia. Beberapa pelajaran yang ia berikan lewat bukunya mungkin bisa menjadi jawaban pencarian Anda terhadap ladang kebahagiaan lewat pekerjaan. Berikut ini, seperti diulas Yahoo: