Feeling miserable isn't always attributed to one specific cause; in fact, according to a study from the journal Kyklos, it can be a side effect of many things, from mental illness, to poverty, and ...
A job that you hate can be emotionally draining. While there’s a lot of negative discourse about professional environments these days, with many attempting to convince most workers that they have to ...
The huge number of books about how to better your career astounds me. I sometimes wonder if there really is anything new worth writing about. But last year I read a book that seemed cheesy on the ...
In Gallup's latest report on workplace engagement, Jim Clifton, Chairman and CEO wrote that “16% of employees are actively disengaged — they are miserable in the workplace." If you are absolutely ...
Patrick Lencioni, renowned business consultant and bestselling author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, knows a thing or two about organizational health. Through the story of a CEO turned pizzeria ...
Life's hard, there's no doubt about it — but we have a certain level of control over how we react to the things thrown at us. Whether that be our attitude in the morning, our decisions throughout the ...
In our daily lives it is inevitable that we will have to interact with individuals who we might refer to as miserable, bitter, gloomy, or just unpleasant. It is impossible to avoid all such people, ...
More than a half-century ago, in 1952, when positive psychology set off a wave of religiously inspired self-help in the U.S. with the release of Norman Vincent Peale’s popular bestseller The Power of ...
James Pethokoukis is a columnist at AEIdeas, the blog of the American Enterprise Institute, and a CNBC contributor. He is on Twitter. Updated September 8, 2015, 3:32 AM Market capitalism has done ...