The Dark Side of Strengths: How Too Much of a Good Thing Can Undermine Your Best Efforts
My client morosely shared the professional woes he’d experienced in recent years as I scanned his VIA Character Strengths Survey results and listened carefully. He said... Read More
When Are Your Strengths Your Weakness? Facebook Live
Caroline hosted a Facebook Live event on Tuesday, December 12, 2017 about how she uses the VIA Character Strengths Survey with clients, organizations and others... Read More
How Do You Get More Grit and Why Does It Matter? Facebook Live
On November 29, 2017, Caroline held her Facebook Live event, and she shared for thirty minutes about how she believes anyone can learn how to... Read More
Throw out what you know about ‘SMART’ Goals… The Most Effective Goals Have These 8 Things in Common
By Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP One of the most common misconceptions about goal setting is that there are only a few things we need... Read More
9 Ways to Stop, Savor, and Smell the Roses (& How Doing So Can Boost Your Wellbeing!)
By Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP Savoring is a key quality that many happy and well-adjusted people naturally have in abundance, but not everyone enjoys... Read More
5 Proven Ways to Pump Up Your Happiness — and Your Grit!
By Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP It was the fall of 2005 when I was in the MAPP program at Penn, and I was reading... Read More
How to Do Hard Things & Struggle Well (& Why It’s Worth It!)
By Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP The Tong Leong School of Martial Arts is the last martial arts academy many would expect to find in the... Read More
How These 9 Simple Actions Can Help You Feel Happier (& Get More Grit!)
By Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP When I entered the positive psychology field, one of the embryonic areas was called “positive interventions,” which was the identification... Read More
How to Get More Grit: 10 Traits That Every Authentically Gritty Person Needs
By Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP The Good, the Bad & the Authentically Gritty // Part 3: Authentic Grit To qualify for the label of authentic... Read More
How to Know When Achieving Goals Turns from Grit into Just Plain Stupid
By Caroline Adams Miller, MAPP The Good, the Bad & the Authentically Gritty // Part 2: Bad Grit – Stubborn Grit Cautionary tales about how... Read More