There are many factors that contribute to happiness. Happiness can come from setting and working towards meaningful goals, it's connected to your physical health and wellbeing, and happiness is most definitely associated with hope and optimism and gratitude, as well as positive relationships and, well,...
I've said it before and I'll say it again, because it's so important and so often forgotten or ignored, but happiness means different things to different people. Which isn't all that surprising because even if you ask the "experts", they'll have different definitions of happiness....
It might not surprise any of you to read that I spend a lot of my time reading and studying, thinking about happiness and positive psychology. Psychology generally, and more recently positive psychology and happiness, have been my life. I love learning and I love...
In another episode of "Ask Dr Happy", this week's selected question is from Margot who asks ...
I write a lot about mental health and happiness and when I do, I don't usually like to be too prescriptive. That's because, we're all different. And happiness will look and feel different for different people. Even for the same person, happiness can and will...
I've written about many happiness boosting strategies, and habits for happiness, many (if not most) of which you've probably been familiar with. When I write about creating more happiness and improving your life by practising healthy living, fostering optimism, engaging in gratitude and more, I've...
More often than not, we look towards addition if we're trying to create more happiness in our lives. That is, we look at what we can DO more of, HAVE more of, BE more of in order to FEEL more joy and positive emotion. And...
We all want to enjoy happiness, even if just a little more happiness. But we all, also, have stressors in our lives. So although happiness might be our goal, a reasonable goal, it's also normal and appropriate to feel, and important to accept, stress and...
Like many, I find it hard to "do nothing". For me, "doing nothing" means wasting time, being unproductive, laziness and more, all of which don't do much for my happiness. Well, in truth, they do; they make me very unhappy because I often feel unworthy...
It may well surprise some of you to read the heading to this post. More often than not, we think of happiness coming from achievement and stability and success. Which it can do. But ...