May 2013

Sometimes we overcomplicate life.  Sometimes we overcomplicate happiness.  Happiness and living a great life need not be difficult. Here at The Happiness Institute w've been saying for many years now that achieving happiness requires nothing more than practising a few simple disciplines each and every day.  Here are...

by Jinyoung Park What makes us happy? The famous Grant Study, which followed 268 Harvard sophomore men for more than seven decades since 1938, reveals the long sought-after secrets to happiness. This unprecedented study measured and recorded just about everything, including physical and psychological fitness, family...

In a recent article published in The Huffington Post the author, Matt Tenney, suggested that if happiness were your goal then seeking meaning might be more important than seeking pleasure (and I should note that the very interesting article covers far more than this one,...

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Check out this great article from Forbes.com -  Happiness can indeed be bought. But there’s no storefront, no web site, no vendors or purchase orders required. And the wealth isn’t wired —but it is transferred. If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for...