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Those of you who follow my/our work here at The Happiness Institute know that central to much of what we recommend for happiness is clarity around life goals, direction and purpose. What's really important? What are your priorities for life? Know the answers to these...

14 December, 2010

Happiness is about much more than solving problems and overcoming obstacles but that being said, we all face adversity in life and learning how to deal with this in a positive and effective way can be fantastically useful. So this week we bring you an...

13 December, 2010

As I've written many times before, noone should expect happiness all the time. It's appropriate and OK and heathy and normal to experience a range of emotions, including positive ones such as happiness and joy and pride and love BUT ALSO including the so-called negative...

12 December, 2010

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down _ãÄhappy._ã_ They told me I didn_ã_t understand...

09 December, 2010

You might think that something as amorphous as country-wide happiness would be hard to gauge, but demographers have given it a go nonetheless. The results of several studies are gathered in The Happy Planet Index. Probably the key studies in the lot come from the 2005...

09 December, 2010

Happiness isn't always knowing all the answers, sometimes it's asking the right questions; so on this Wednesday I thought I'd suggest a few happiness boosting questions for you to ask yourself and/or your family, friends and colleagues...

08 December, 2010

from the blog of Jeremy McCarthy In the last several years, psychology has been flipped on its head with the growth and popularity of positive psychology. While psychology traditionally has focused on studying things we want less of such as depression and mental illness, positive psychology...

08 December, 2010