Posts Tagged ‘happiness’

• Learn to Live!

  • April 2nd, 2024
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: Tags: Barbara Gassaway, happiness, health, perspectives
    

  Education is emphasized in today’s society as an empowering avenue one must take to advance their career, and consequently their life. Statistics equate education and income to career success, albeit less often to happiness. Many influential experiences occur outside of… Read More

• Emotions in Control

  • February 6th, 2024
  • Posted in Blog, Market Research, Perspectives, Self Improvement, The Research Group, Uncategorized
  • Tags: Tags: Baltimore Market Research, Barbara Gassaway, focus group, happiness, market research, perspectives, qualitative research
    

  Emotions govern our lives. How we feel contributes to every decision, act, interaction, and outcome. Experiences are more complex than merely positive or negative. The game changer: we all possess emotive choice and research indicates those choices greatly affect physical… Read More

• Outcome By Design

  • October 3rd, 2023
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  • Tags: Tags: Baltimore Market Research, Barbara Gassaway, focus group, focus groups, happiness, market research, perspectives, qualitative research
    

  Personal goals: Think back to the last time personal goals were top of mind. Remember how quickly those goals became irrelevant once life’s commitments distract us? Thinking about future accomplishments may be easy. However, once we set our goals, following-through can be the… Read More

• Essentialism- Life on Your Terms

  • July 11th, 2023
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: Tags: Baltimore Market Research, Barbara Gassaway, happiness, health, market research, perspectives, qualitative research
    

  What is Essentialism? Essentialism is a concept popularized by Greg McKeown’s book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. To put it short, being an Essentialist is like being a minimalist on a mental level. This hyper-focused state of being produces more freedom in… Read More

• Failure: NOT an Option!

  • May 2nd, 2023
  • Posted in Blog, Market Research, Perspectives, Productivity, Self Improvement, The Research Group, Uncategorized
  • Tags: Tags: Baltimore Market Research, Barbara Gassaway, focus group, focus groups, happiness, market research, perspectives, qualitative research
    

  This environment is testing emotions, significantly changing behavior, and generating authentic fear in the fiercest of people!  Many of us need to be reminded: We are human!  However dark the world appears, we can choose to embrace the changes ahead!  Joyce… Read More

• A Peek Into Non-Verbal Communication

  • April 4th, 2023
  • Posted in Market Research, Perspectives, The Research Group
  • Tags: Tags: Baltimore Market Research, Barbara Gassaway, focus group, happiness, market research, perspectives, qualitative research
    

  The media, HR professionals, law enforcement agents, and of course qualitative market research moderators use non-verbal communication to discover the underlying feelings of human beings. Understanding body language is complex and often undervalued in mainstream communication.    Learning to use nonverbal communication… Read More

• Change Your Life? Change Your Thoughts!

  • March 7th, 2023
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: Tags: Baltimore Market Research, Barbara Gassaway, focus group, happiness, market research, perspectives, qualitative research
    

  Fact: the body manifests what the mind focuses upon. There is a direct correlation between mind and body: how we think affects the way we feel! How many times is our attitude influenced by the news? Or our physical diagnoses based on… Read More

• Savor Happiness

  • June 7th, 2018
  • Posted in Perspectives
  • Tags: Tags: happiness, health research, market research, perspectives
    

  Savor! According to Webster, Savor is defined as to delight in, enjoy. When was the last time we really enjoyed a moment? Reacted with a belly laugh? Experienced a genuine gratefulness for a loved one’s embrace or delighted in the scent of… Read More

• Meaningful or Meaningless?

  • November 28th, 2017
  • Posted in Perspectives
  • Tags: Tags: happiness, market research, meaning, meaningful existence, mindfulness, perspectives
    

  How we choose to spend time is often influenced by others’ priorities. Ever regret an activity because the pressure to say, yes, seems greater in the moment? To achieve a meaningful life, it is important to establish one’s own personal values or… Read More

• Happiness Supreme

  • March 7th, 2017
  • Posted in Perspectives
  • Tags: Tags: happiness, mood, positive psychology
    

  Dr. Martin Seligman, the pioneer of positive psychology, coined that theme in 1998 when he was president of the American Psychological Association. Positive psychology is the branch of psychology that uses scientific understanding and effective intervention to aid in the achievement of a… Read More