How Vacations Affect Your Happiness
Vacations are a chance to take a break from work, see the world and enjoy time with family. But do they make you happier? Researchers from the Netherlands set out …
Get Outside More: Happiness is Maximized at 57°
In The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor recommends spending time in the fresh air to improve your happiness: Making time to go outside on a nice day also delivers a huge …
The PERMA Model
Bringing Well-Being and Happiness to Your Life We all want to be happy. When we’re happy, we’re productive, we’re good at building meaningful relationships with those around us, and… we feel …
(Not So Great) Expectations
Expectations: use them or be used by them. The brain is finely tuned to expectations, and an expectation that isn’t met, no matter how seemingly unimportant, can sometimes pack a …
Hit the refresh button
It’s easy to fill every waking moment of your free time with smartphone apps, social media browsing, TV, books, hobbies, and more, but it isn’t always a good idea. Sometimes …
When Money CAN Bring You Happiness: 3 Cutting-Edge Researchers Share Their Secrets
By Molly Triffin – article found here. You’ve heard the refrain countless times: Money can’t buy happiness. Or love. Or class, for that matter. But a wave of new research suggests that …
Laughter is the Best Medicine
The Health Benefits of Humor and Laughter Humor is infectious. The sound of roaring laughter is far more contagious than any cough, sniffle, or sneeze. When laughter is shared, it …
Keeping Good Company: Why You Should Surround Yourself With Good People
People have a huge impact on your life. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with,” says American entrepreneur and motivational speaker Jim Rohn. …
Focus on people, not things.
The path to real happiness doesn’t lie through an iPhone or a fancy car. In fact, research suggests that people who are focused on material things are often trying to …
Cultivate optimism.
Why does winning the lottery not make people happy? In the 1970s, researchers followed people who’d won the lottery and found that a year afterward, they were no happier than …