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As he's done so many times before, Ross Gittins, the well known and well qualified economics writer for the Sydney Morning Herald has again, today, clearly and succinctly summed up the relationships between money and happiness.  He begins with the simple question...

06 July, 2011

A recent Huffington Post article titled "Surefire steps to a life of happiness and joy" piqued my curiosity. I'm always a bit concerned when I read words like surefire, guaranteed, secrets and the like.  But upon further reading I found this particular article quite interesting and...

05 July, 2011

by Marina Watson Pelaez from Time Magazine A recent survey by Harvard professor Robert Epstein found that 25% of our happiness hinges on how well we're able to manage stress. The next logical question is, of course, how best can we reduce our stress? Epstein's study, which...

04 July, 2011

One of the most important contributors to happiness is good quality relationships.  Many of us can learn how to enjoy more happiness by understanding what happy people do and finding a way to do something similar ourselves.  So if we can learn from the best, the happiest...

30 June, 2011

Happiness; smiling, laughing, joy.  You've probably all heard that you can "fake it until you make it" but here at The Happiness Institute we believe you'll enjoy far more enduring positive emotions if you keep it real and run with genuine, authentic emotions of all kinds.  Not...

29 June, 2011

Here at The Happiness Institute we've promoted this philosophy for about a decade now. Happiness is good for the happy person; but happiness is also good for all those people around that happy person! Because happiness is contagious; it spreads, virally, creating positive cycles that benefit...

28 June, 2011

Only 4 years ago Ash Rosshandler was working in advertising writing ads selling Toyotas and 2 minutes noodles. Today he is responsible for rescuing gorillas and finding cures for cancer. He also aids in clearing landmines and educating kids. As founder and CEO of the...

27 June, 2011

We recently received some lovely feedback about our weekly eNewsletters and about our work generally but the writer also noted that she was struggling to stay happy given that she felt she was surrounded by so much negative media, cold weather and grey skies, and,...

23 June, 2011