Billy has been writing blogs for Happy since 2017, covering mindfulness, stress management, confidence building and emotional intelligence as well as offering handy tips for Office 365 users. He's also an established arts, culture and lifestyle writer.
One of the perks of being an Office 365 subscriber is Microsoft’s regular unfurling of new features and updates for the software’s constituent apps (Access, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio and Word).
A look at the major findings in Liz Wiseman’s bestselling book, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter.
I’ve always been fond of the precept “Do unto others as you’d have them do to you.” Being phrased so simply, it sounds pretty easy to achieve. I’d be a liar, though, to claim pious adherence to this bit of sage advice.
Learning how to give and receive constructive feedback is an essential tool in both your personal and work life.
As we draw to the end of 2017, it’s a great time for reflection and review of the year. But despite a year of change and tragedy, we are ending this year on a positive note. In this blog, Billy explains that it’s not all doom and gloom – despite what the headlines might tell you.
How do you use your free time? Do you often feel exhausted at the end of the weekend? Billy has some great advice for making the most of your evenings and weekends – so you can go back to work feeling refreshed.
Your experience at work will be enhanced – in terms of performance, personal satisfaction and long term behavioural benefits – by building trust and becoming more assertive. Find out more in this blog by Billy Burgess.
Intelligence doesn’t secure happiness. Neither does financial well-being, creative satisfaction or a healthy marriage. Heck, even winning the lottery won’t slap an immutable smile on your face. But despite these hard truths, Raj Raghunathan argues that happiness is our natural state. The problem is that several aspects of socialisation lead us astray. In If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Happy?, Raghunathan offers plenty of critical insights to get us back on track.
Ruby Wax recently released A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled – we were intrigued by the book, and asked Billy Burgess to write a review of it for us. Here are his thoughts.
Processing the rapid rate of change in our lives can be exhausting, but we needn’t let it overwhelm us. In this blog, Billy talks about different types of change and offers four tips to help you manage change positively.