Good Life Tip: Your Space

Tips, advice, and pointers for living a happy life by mastering your space, gleaned from the latest research of positive psychology

The new and growing field of positive psychology offers much good advice with loads of tips to help your pursuit of happiness and the good life.

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Good Life Tip:

Researchers find a correlation between an individual's level of happiness and one's feelings of mastery over the environment.

Consider your personal space and take control of it, arranging it to your satisfaction. Whether a small cubicle at work or an entire home, your space is yours to arrange, decorate, and maintain as you please. Take pleasure in this opportunity.

Though you have little control over much of your environment, exercise control over the part you can. This might be concientiously recycling as your contribution to preserving mother earth. Though a small contribution, it is a contribution and exercising it in accordance with your beliefs is satisfying.

Your environment includes more than your physical space. It also includes your mental space. Recognizing the choices you have over what you think about is empowering and satisfying.

Source: Positive Psychology and Coaching P.A. Linley, Class Notes, Fall 2006