Activities to Increase Happiness: Review the Happiness Challenge and Find What Works for You Congratulations, my amazing friend! You’ve reached the end of our year-long happiness journey, and I couldn’t be prouder of you. After 52 weeks of exploring science-backed activities to increase happiness, you’ve learned tools and techniques that can transform your well-being. But […]
How to See the Big Picture: Putting Life in Perspective Through Gratitude and Meaning Life has a peculiar way of pulling us into its details, such as the endless to-do lists, the minor irritations, and the daily struggles that seem monumental in the moment. But what if you could step back and learn how to
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Happiness Environment: How to Create a Positive Environment Marcus never thought of himself as particularly unhappy, but he wasn’t particularly joyful either. He was a 37-year-old accountant living in suburban Denver, going through the motions. Then his daughter asked him a simple question at dinner one Tuesday: “Dad, when was the last time you laughed
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How to Use Positive Affirmations for Happiness Maya stood before her blank canvas, brush trembling in her hand. “I’m not good enough,” she whispered. Her art show was in three weeks, and she couldn’t shake the belief that she was a fraud. Then something shifted. A friend suggested that Maya learn how to use positive
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How to Use Visualization to Increase Well-Being Imagine increasing your physical strength by 35% without ever setting foot in a gym. Sound impossible? Well, it’s not impossible – it’s just one of the benefits of learning how to use visualization! In 2004, researcher Vinoth Ranganathan and his colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation discovered something
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How to Practice Spirituality and Boost Spiritual Well-Being Sarah sat in her cluttered apartment, surrounded by all the trappings of success (a promotion, a new car, designer furniture), yet felt hollow inside. She had achieved every material goal on her list, but something fundamental was missing. One evening, while scrolling mindlessly through her phone, she
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How to Grow as a Person: The Link Between Personal Growth and Happiness Learning how to grow as a person is one of the most important tools anyone can ever acquire. Personal growth changes your perspective, and your perspective changes everything. Let’s start with a perspective-changing story. Imagine walking into your office one morning to
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How to Find Purpose in Life: A Deep Dive into Core Values, Life Purpose, and Meaning Imagine waking up one morning to discover your own obituary in the newspaper. This shocking experience happened to Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, when a newspaper mistakenly printed his death notice instead of his brother’s. The headline read,
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How to be Kind to Others (and Yourself): Random Act of Kindness Ideas One cold day, Bryan Anderson stopped to help an elderly woman stranded with a flat tire beside her Mercedes. Despite her initial fear, he changed her tire and refused payment, asking only that she help someone else in need. Miles down the
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