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santosha
Santosha – A mantra for balanced progress

Santosha is a Sanskrit term that, loosely translated, means contentment in the moment. When used in the discipline of Yoga, it refers to a point you’ll find while attempting any challenging pose. Stand up for a moment, trust me, doing this will be a turning point in your life if…

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Positivity books
Positivity – A new way to thrive

I read a lot. My latest book is one of my favorites, Positivity by Barbara Fredrickson. I’ve been aware of her work for a long time, but reading her book has brought her research to life and really highlighted why positivity is so important! Below I’ve summarised what I found…

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prayer flags
Annapurna – A Nepalese adventure

It was 5am and freezing cold as we shuffled into a taxi that looked like it had already driven across china and back, that morning. When I say it was average, I mean the brakes were supplemented by the hand brake as the hills got steeper and the suspension was…

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Kindness
Kindness Crew – A new idea for your advent calendar

Jodie Cooper and Stephanie Meades developed the kindness calendar in 2016 as a simple way to promote kindness in schools, homes and workplaces. Together they formed the Kindness Crew and are on a mission to make kindness a priority in the lead up to Christmas. Each calendar has 24 Random…

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Kokoda
Kokoda – A journey within

In the year 2000 I was in the Army Reserves and an opportunity came up to go to PNG and walk the Kokoda trail. Me being me, I’d trained for months before we left, I’d hike up Sublime point from Austinmer to Bulli tops with a 15kg pack, sometimes twice…

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A peek into my life – Positive habits for productive people

Like most busy professionals, I get a lot done. I also manage to enjoy large parts of each day. I prioritise time for my family and friends and exercise religiously to support my wellbeing. I’m not some sort of super hero or energiser bunny, and I’m certainly not perfect (trust…

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Laura at School
Why Positive Education is taking the World by Storm

OK, So you may not have heard about Positive Education YET, but believe me, it’s coming to a school near you! Positive Education is an offshoot of Positive Psychology (the study of well-being) and quite simply is the application of Positive Psychology into an educational setting. It’s well researched and…

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Sean and Laura Cooper
Positive Leadership – A snapshot!

My husband was recently accused of bullying…. By our six-year-old daughter. Laura came home from school telling me how she learned all about bullying at School. Later that evening when my husband, very respectfully I might add, asked her to put her pyjamas on for bed, she turned around, put…

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The Shoeshine Boy

This is a beautiful book about a young boy in South America that’s a shoe shine boy in an airport. Two American businessmen see him and begin to teach him some of the essentials of both life and business. Without going through the whole story I wanted to share some…

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what is positive psychology by Jodie Cooper
What is Positive Psychology?

What is Positive Psychology? To answer the question of what is positive psychology, first we must understand traditional psychology. Imagine for a moment that we all reside on a mental wellbeing scale of minus ten to positive ten. Minus ten indicates someone with poor mental health who is struggling to function…

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Thinking for success - Jodie Cooper positive psychology coach
Thinking for Success

Recently I was asked how I help people to think for sucess. Weather it’s success at work, or success in life, these simple ideas will help you.   We all arrived where we are today as a result of the thoughts we have had in the past. Are the majority…

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