4 Ways to Laugh More
Laughing can lower stress and improve your relationships.
How to Forgive Yourself for Your Mistakes
Self-forgiveness is about allowing yourself to move forward once you’ve acknowledged your folly and done your best to make amends.
How to Break the Pattern of Dwelling on Past Mistakes
It’s time to move on from your missteps. Use these 4 tactics to let go of negative experiences and live happily in the present.
6 Ways to Celebrate the International Day of Happiness
Be intentional about spreading joy on March 20.
How Colors Can Affect Your Mood
Choosing color that makes you feel great is such an easy way to boost the happiness factor in your life.
11 Tips to Boost Your Mood and Be Happier
How happiness experts stay centered, optimistic, grateful and satisfied in their busy lives—and how you can, too
Do These 6 Things to Be More Humble
Humility is a quality that can effect powerful positive change in your life. Use these six strategies to learn to be more humble.
It Takes Happy Habits to Make a Happy Life
How can you make your life more positive—and happier as a result? Being grateful, acting charitably, staying fit, meditating, and making time for friends and family are a few key examples. But working in a soup kitchen one time or going on a once-a-year date with your spouse will only temporarily boost your mood. The […]
Can Money Really Buy Happiness?
Do you think that if you won the lottery, you would be happy? Think again. Over the past 10 years, strong research from the field of positive psychology has shown that, universally, money adds to our happiness only up to a point. That point depends on where you live and how many dependents you have, […]
How to Exponentially Improve Your Performance
“Do your best.” We’ve heard that advice since pre-K, but how often do we really perform at our own personal best? Probably not that often if we’re in the groove of work and family life. And if we’ve been in that groove long enough, neuroscience tells us that the bar for our “best” has probably […]
6 Tips to Be a Productive Procrastinator
As a freelance writer who works from home, I spend a lot of time procrastinating (if I have ever met you, even in passing, I have Facebooked/Googled you, just FYI). But I spend even more time beating myself up about my procrastination. After all, when you think of the positive attributes of yourself or someone […]
Need to Lose a Few Pounds? Get Happier
About a decade and a half ago, I lost 50 pounds over the course of two years. People frequently asked me how I’d done it and were uniformly dismayed to hear that I hadn’t tried to. They wanted calorie-reducing tips, yoga-class recommendations and diet endorsements. Some of them probably wanted to hear how I suffered, sacrificing dinners […]
