Happiness and Fulfillment
Charlie Brown could not cheer Lucy up because Lucy did not want to be cheered up. These posts are about happiness as something built rather than found, the joy you get from giving it away, and what a leader can and cannot do about someone else's.
15 articles
2023
Twenty couples, a trivia night, and $2,000 nobody kept. Bryan Yager on a giving idea worth stealing outright.
6 min readArthur Brooks names three components of happiness. Bryan Yager tests them against a wedding and a Sunday interview.
8 min read2022
Wrapped by Thanksgiving, or shopping on the 23rd? Bryan Yager on the one gift you cannot buy late, or at all.
7 min readLuggage is what you packed. Baggage is what is simply still there. Bryan Yager on telling the two apart in January.
4 min read2021
2020
Even a successful workshop leaves Bryan Yager flat afterwards. On why the letdown comes, and what it explains.
5 min readShort of joy this year? Bryan Yager on the advice a homesick cadet got, and why it helps the person who takes it.
4 min readEven when the world is at its worst, you can choose to be at your best. Bryan Yager on treating that as a decision, not a mood.
4 min read2019
Lucy did not want to be cheered up. Bryan Yager on people who choose unhappiness, and what a leader can do about it.
2 min readHealth is not valued until sickness comes. Bryan Yager, prompted by a friend with MS, on the habits we put off changing.
3 min readBecky sorts every file three ways each January. Bryan Yager applies the same test to what you carry into a new year.
3 min readBryan has spent more than 45 years developing leaders, in Boise and across the country. If this is the thinking you want in the room, he works with organizations on leadership development, coaching, and team workshops, and the same thinking runs through his book, How to Transition Into Leadership.