Reading Material

Choose the Life You Want: The Mindful Way to Happiness
Positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar draws on the latest psychological research on how choices have a direct, long-lasting impact on our happiness.

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Stanford University psychologist Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. shows how success in school, work, sports, the arts and almost every area of human endeavor can be influenced by how we think about our talents and abilities.

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation
With the integration of brain science with psychotherapy, Dr. Dan Siegel offers an extraordinary guide to the practice of “mindsight,” the potent skill that is the basis for both emotional and social intelligence.

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
Dr. John Ratey explores the connection between exercise and the brain with evidence demonstrating that aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg explains why habits exist and how they can be changed from exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive and achieving success.

10 Step Brain Power-Up Guide
From the website Be Brain Fit, this guide offers 10 steps to boost your thinking, memory, mood and focus.

12 Choices to Help You Step Back from Burnout
From the website Edutopia, one educator shares active choices you can make to help prevent burnout.

25 Tiny Changes That Will Make You a Happier Person
Lolly Daskal, President and CEO of Lead From Within offers changes you can make to make you happier at work.

45 Simple Self-Care Practices for a Healthy Mind, Body and Soul
From the website Tiny Buddha, this article offers self-care practices for the mind, body and soul.

121 Employee Wellness Ideas
A list of 121 fun employee wellness program ideas that you can easily implement in your building or department.

American Mindfulness Research Association
This organization shares evidence-based practices for the process, practice, and construct of mindfulness as well as standards for the use of mindfulness research and its applications for professional development.

Be Brain Fit
Read articles and other research on ways to boost your cognitive and mental health and fitness.

Change Your Habits. Change Your Life
James Clear provides self-improvement tips based on proven scientific research.

Do You Hate to Rush?
This article provides 11 tips for getting ready faster in the morning.

Eating Better than Before
Check out these habit-changing strategies to help you improve your eating habits.

Exercising Better than Before
Find habit-changing strategies in this article to help improve the exercise and movement you get each day.

Five Ways to Be Fully Authentic
Included are tips to stay true to yourself without letting others down.

Great Dream: Ten Keys to Happier Living
This article offers ten factors important to our well-being and what we can do to influence them.

Healthy Workplace Food and Beverage Kit
This toolkit, created by the American Heart Association provides a guide with management and resources for creating a healthier workplace environment.

How Can Districts Help Teachers Develop Social-Emotional Skills?
District leaders share insights that in order for teachers to be effective for their students, they must take care of their own social emotional well-being.

How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain
Learn more about the research on how gratitude works to improve our mental health.

How to Eat Organic on a Budget
This article includes over 75 tips for eating organic when you're on a budget.

Meet on Your Feet
Not all meetings must take place in an office or conference room. In fact, many of the most creative moments can take place outside of them.

Recipe for Wellness
Tips to keep yourself motivated and stay on track to eat healthier.

The Better Than Before Habits Manifesto
Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before, provides 12 tips for a habits manifesto.

The Four Tendencies Quiz
Take this quiz, developed by Gretchen Rubin, author of Better Than Before, designed to help people learn how they respond to both outer and inner expectations.

The Pursuit of Happiness
Find articles written by psychologists, philosophers and educators from science-based information on life skills and habits needed to enhance well-being, build resilience against depression and anxiety, and pursue a meaningful life.

Tips to succeed in staying physically active
Learn tips to succeed such as your "why" to help you say physically active. See a complete list of gym discounts to support your journey as well.

Why You Should Take a Relaxing Lunch Break
This articles shares the newest research on how purposefully detaching from work to enjoy a real break can help us concentrate better and feel less stressed.

Working Better than Before
This article outlines the different ways individuals approach creativity and productivity and how to use these distinctions to help you work and feel better.

Your Healthiest Self: Wellness Toolkits
Each person’s “healthiest self” is different. We have different bodies, minds, living situations, and people influencing our lives. Use this wellness toolkits to find ways to improve your well-being in any area you’d like.