People who say they have a best friend at work are seven times as likely to be engaged in what they’re doing. And if they don’t have a best friend at work, the odds of...

If a school makes an effort to provide kids the right foods and help them to be more active, this benefits the student and the family’s health. If you embark on a program to improve...

Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now – but instead what continues to grow long after you’re gone

I’ve seen the same thing emerge in the research around the interaction of sleeping and moving and eating: if you get a good night’s sleep, you are significantly more likely to make the right choices...

Washington is not a city that takes great pride in being a healthy place, necessarily. Now, I have no data. That’s just my own observation.

If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year’s insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet...

Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.

Make it easier to do things that increase your wellbeing before you have to make a choice because a lot of our choices, though they seem small in the moment, have a big effect.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

Regardless of your age, you can make better choices in the moment. Small decisions – about how you eat, move, and sleep each day – count more than you think. As I have learned from...

What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths – and can call on the right strength at the right time.

The most important thing executives can do is send a very clear message to their employees that they care about each person’s overall wellbeing and that they want to be a part of helping it...

What works for one person’s needs is almost always very different from the next.

When we asked people if they would rather have a best friend at work or a 10% pay raise, having a friend clearly won.

No matter how healthy you are today, you can take specific actions to have more energy and live longer.

People with high levels of wellbeing have been careful to work out early in the morning and not to have heavy meals throughout the day because you kind of fall off a cliff in terms...

Positive defaults protect you from yourself – and that helps you to make decisions in the moment that are better for your long-term interests.

There is certainly some predisposition to wellbeing, based on the research I’ve looked at. There are people who have a lot more natural discipline. But for most of us, it takes a lot more in...

followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope

Figure out what you really love doing and use your strengths on a daily basis.

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

Don’t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental tasks actually improves your creativity and productivity. Skipping breaks, on...

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments – and relationships are crucial in business.

Team members care about one another, listen, share secrets, talk about the latest news, have heated arguments, are sometimes jealous of each other, and even cry together.

When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.

There’s a conventional wisdom that says that strategic thinking is much more important than relationship building, which doesn’t seem to be nearly as highly valued as it should be, based on what some of the...

the key to human development is building on who you already are

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

You can intentionally choose to spend more time with the people you enjoy most and engage your strengths as much as possible.

I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you’re infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it’s not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won’t do...

The right choices over time greatly improve your odds of a long and healthy life.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

I’ve seen people be effective, even among local teams, by offering something that improves wellbeing in a small way – people who get passionate about smart investment strategies and managing finances for retirement, for example.

When you ask people about what they enjoy doing, time spent with the boss is even worse than time spent cleaning the house. So this suggests that there are a lot of leaders out there...