The Happiness Report

Free Ebook: 16 Happiness Strategies That Work

In this free 45-page report, you'll discover:

  • The 5-Minute a Day Activity That Can Boost Your Long-Term Well-Being by Over 10%
  • The Happiness Basics That You've Been Skipping Over
  • The Most Effective Strategies For Permanently Increasing Your Happiness
  • And much, much more!

The Power and Vestigiality of Positive Emotion – What’s Your Happiness Ratio?

October 24, 2012
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A marriage with 5x more positivity than negativity is significantly less likely to result in divorce.1 A business team with 5x more positivity than negativity is significantly more likely to make money.2 College students with 3x more positivity than negativity are significantly more likely to have flourishing mental health.3 In general – when a human [...]

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Self-Compassion – For Real Men.

September 25, 2012
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Afraid of public speaking? You’re not alone – more than 70% of Americans suffer from speech anxiety. The butterflies, light-headedness, sweaty palms, fidgety legs, shaky knees, and incoherent mumbling? All normal. But accepting that it’s normal? Not so normal. By skipping, ignoring, and even resisting the truth that failure is normal, we’re losing out on [...]

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The 6 Fraudulent Schemes We Mistake as Dreams

August 17, 2012
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The Great American Dream – anyone can rise up from poverty to become rich and beautiful. These dreams come from our culture – work hard, get a great education, work even harder, make lots of money, become attractive, marry a beautiful spouse, have kids, retire in a beach house. Generally, our culture is good. It [...]

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How Grateful Are You? Interactive Quiz + Seven Strategies for Cultivating Gratitude

July 23, 2012
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Gratitude increases our happiness, improves our relationships, and makes us healthier. And it does so reliably. Over 40 research studies have shown the same thing – gratitude rocks. So how can we get more of it? It depends. How grateful are you already? Let’s figure that out. The quiz below only takes 30 seconds.

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The 31 Benefits of Gratitude You Didn’t Know About: How Gratitude Can Change Your Life

July 16, 2012

Do you want more from your life? More happiness? Better health? Deeper relationships? Increased productivity? What if I told you that just one thing can help you in all of those areas? An Attitude of Gratitude What the heck? Gratitude? Is this a Christian blog? No. I’m not even religious. When I first started looking into gratitude, [...]

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The Inside Job: How Happy Happens

May 22, 2012
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Joy begets joy. You probably know at least a few people who are eternal, effervescent bundles of bliss: no matter how tiring or challenging their day, they just exude happiness. And whenever they enter a room, every person inside it lights up like a holiday tree, catching some of their pleasure, if only momentarily. Ever [...]

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THE PARENT TRAP: Do Procreation Drives Trump Happiness? Surveys Reveal Less Happy, More Stressed Parents—but New Science Disagrees

May 14, 2012
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“A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.”—Mark Twain, American Humorist, 1825-1910 Got kids? Survey after survey reveals that people with children are less happy, more stressed, and less sympathetic as marriage partners. So why is it that most of us believe that bearing (or adopting) and raising children is a direct path to happiness and the most [...]

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29 Happier Humans Share The Secrets To Their Joy

May 6, 2012
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If it was easy to become truly happy, you’d already be there. But it’s more than that – conventional wisdom is often wrong, misguided, unscientific, or outdated. HappierHuman is about taking the science of positive psychology, where double-blind, placebo controlled studies have proven what actually works, and making it accessible to all of you. But I’ll be [...]

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The 5 Excuses You’re Using to Sabotage Your Happiness

May 5, 2012
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This is the first in a series of posts that explores a question that deserves a lot more attention than it currently gets. Why don’t we more actively pursue happiness? We think hard work and delayed gratification will get us there. We think its selfish. We think we see the world as it really is. [...]

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