DaveShearon

Thursday Tunes

I've never been as much a music person as some, but I've really come to enjoy Rhapsody, iTunes, and Youtube!  Sure makes paying bills more fun! But what really got me hooked was an exercise in the MAPP program where we had to create a portfolio to help us experience an emotion we selected.  Barbara Fredrickson talks about this exercise in her new book, Positivity, and suggest the exercise of developing such a portfolio for each of the ten positive emotions.  I like that idea and plan to do it myself. 

In any event, I've enjoyed getting back together with old songs I've loved for years, plus learning new ones (my boys are great for that!).   Here's one of my all-time favorites, but done in an earlier version, and with a little Johnny Cash thrown in!

Thursday Tunes

I always liked the ambition and youthful enthusiasm in this song.  A little over the top?  Yep, but compared to being short on enthusiasm, dreams, and energy, I'll take it.  Enjoy.

Love is ...

My monthly post is up over at Positve Psychology News Daily, and it's got pictures! I look at the 10 positive emotions identified by Barbara Fredrickson in her new book, Positivity.  "Love" is the tenth -- last not because it is least, but because of it's relationship to the others.  Dr. Fredrickson's research presents a different way of thinking about love that helps highlight pathways to increasing love in close relationships, or as love is known in the work world, caring, compassion, or "high quality connections."