Author: Dr Happy

Simple Secret to a Happy Life

I'm well aware that happiness isn't always easy. But at the same time, happiness need not be overly complicated. Sometimes, it's the simplest things that make us happy and create a good life and one of them is almost certainly living in the here and...

29 March, 2023

Good lifts the heart and can turn passing experiences into lasting resources.

There will always be dark times. But we can still be happy. There will always be difficulties. But there will also always be happiness. This article touches on the important topic of using light to cope with dark, using happiness to get through unhappiness ...

28 March, 2023

The 4 Virtues of World Happiness

There's been quite a lot of talk recently about the happiest countries in the world. Although I personally find this fascinating, it is worth noting that "happiness" in this context is different to the "happiness" we discuss when talking about personal mental-health and wellbeing. Both...

27 March, 2023

How Smart People Can Stop Being Miserable

Does intelligence make you happier? Some research suggests it might. But there's also some research that indicates intelligent people might think, or overthink more and might, therefore, worry more and so ...

27 March, 2023

Happiness Is A Side Effect, Not A Destination: 3 Ways To Increase Happiness

There's a long standing debate focusing on whether happiness is a destination or in the journey. Is happiness something we should strive for? or something we experience as an indirect result of doing other things? To be honest, I think it's both; or different things...

26 March, 2023

The Belief That You Are Not Enough: 3 Steps to Understand and Let It Go

I'm not sure about you but I think at least on some days, most of us feel like we're not enough. I definitely feel like this; a lot. For most of my life I've felt I'm not enough ...

26 March, 2023

The secret of happiness? Embrace the boring, lay claim to the mundane and rejoice in repetition

What if happiness was not to be found in the exciting and joyous but rather, in the mundane and boring? There's much research to support the benefits of being grateful and appreciative of the little things; and this is very consistent with those ideas. If...

24 March, 2023

Expert Shares the Secret to Easily Changing Habits for Good–No Willpower Required

Habits are vitally important for happiness and life success. But changing habits for happiness, or anything else for that matter, is often seen as a difficult and challenging task that requires great willpower. Well, what if you could create happiness habits with NO willpower? If...

24 March, 2023

Four ways to engage with what matters to you.

Happiness and success largely come from habits. But for habits to become entrenched, over the long-term, they need to come from a powerful "why?" Your "why" is a reflection, in many ways, of your values and so real happiness is always driven by values ...

23 March, 2023

How Nature Can Make You Kinder, Happier, and More Creative

This article is a few years old now. But it's always good to be reminded of the benefits of nature. There's really good research to support the notion that spending time in nature makes you happier and kinder and so much more. So if happiness...

22 March, 2023