Us adults are great, but we waste a lot of time on status management, worrying about how we appear to everyone else. We can learn a thing or two about teamwork from kindergarten kids - who get stuck in, experiment, and rapidly improve.

Our culture encourages us to chase after the wrong duos - like money and fame. But the real building blocks of happiness are connection and purpose.

Life feels hard at the moment. But Martin Seligman’s explanatory styles can help us to avoid learned helplessness, and get into a better headspace.

Ours is a culture of rush, grind and burnout. It’s a legacy we’ve inherited from the Industrial Revolution, which coupled time with money, rather than money with output. But it doesn’t have to be this way . . .

Happiness might seem like a silly thing for a business to focus on. But there’s a very clear link between how your people are going, and how your business is going.

We talk time scarcity, and how to get past it.

The Governor of the Reserve Bank has made it clear - New Zealand is heading for a recession, or period of negative economic growth. It’s not a rosy time, but there are three unconventional, evidence-based, life-affirming tactics we can use to help us get out of this mess - job redesign, more flex, and reexamining the relationship between love, capitalism and Christmas.

The toxic positivity movement has pathologised normal feelings - so a bad mood often comes with a side of self-judgment. But there are a few powerful antidotes, like empathy, remembering to ‘HALT’, and laying down the b-s so you can be more real with others

Do you know what you want? Not for lunch or dinner, but in a big-picture sense? It’s a question that’s surprisingly hard to answer. Here are 4 evidence-based steps to help you get clarity and get going.

The cat in the hat was right. It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how. Do you?