If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got. If you're happy with what you've got, or what you're getting, then that's fine. But if you want more happiness and more success, or less unhappiness and less,...
Sometimes, happiness and joy are easy. Sometimes, happiness and joy can take a little bit of effort. Sometimes, happiness and joy can seem totally impossible! But it never is ...
We'd all like to get everything right and to have everything go well. We'd all like to be happy and maybe even enjoy happiness all the time. But neither of these is possible. Success and happiness are possible. But not always. Which is why if...
Happiness is about more than just happiness. At least, living a happy life, a thriving and flourishing and good life, is about more than just positive emotions. Positive emotions like happiness are great, but they need to sit on a solid foundation of meaning and...
Research into happiness, and Positive Psychology research into thriving and flourishing more generally, has come a long way in 20 or so years. From it's birth and simplistic focus on positive emotions, like happiness, Positive Psychology and the study of wellbeing have evolved to explore...
Happiness can be thought of as a positive emotion. Happiness is a form of pleasure or joy, satisfaction or contentment. But these positive emotions are relatively fleeting. So, real happiness, or thriving and flourishing as Positive Psychologists refer to it, also involves something deeper and...
The science of Positive Psychology has been dominated, somewhat, by the positive emotion of happiness. Happiness is great. But so too are other positive emotions such as gratitude and joy, satisfaction and calm. In addition to these, and without diminishing the importance of happiness, there...
Happiness obviously comes from creating more opportunities to enjoy positive emotions and experiences. But happiness also requires managing and ideally reducing the inevitable negative emotions and experiences. Real and enduring happiness requires both, but today, the focus is on identifying what might be causing unhappiness...
The pursuit of happiness is a tricky one. There's no doubt some research suggests that self-development and attempts to improve promote happiness and wellbeing. But there's also research that suggests if we try too hard to be happy, especially if our expectations are unrealistic, it...