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How to Help Others the Right Way
I’ve posted a number of times about how helping others makes you happier. But I know this leaves some people scratching their heads: How much should I help others? How often? Will I be exploited? Will...
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8 Powerful Things That Will Inspire You
Eight ways to inspire yourself to get to the next level in life, with links to the research behind them: To have meaning in your life you need a story. You need to reflect on how things could have been...
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We Need to Accept Our Failures
Our resistance to thinking about failure is especially curious in light of the fact that failure is so ubiquitous. ‘Failure is the distinguishing feature of corporate life,’ writes the economist Paul...
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Here’s the Best Way to Make Tomorrow an Awesome Day
Pick an awesome first day: The first day you started a new job, opened a business, bought a new house, landed a huge customer, met your significant other… Pick a first day when you felt incredibly...
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10 Steps to a Happier Life, Backed By Research
I went through a number of great books on happiness and pulled together ten research-based tips that can help build a happier life: 1) Cut the small talk. Discuss what matters. Via Pursuing the Good...
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Parental Happiness Predicts If You’ll Have Another Kid
It’s often said that happiness often dips for parents after the birth of a first child. The diaper changes, the middle-of-the-night wailing, the exhaustion—all this and more make for a not-so-blissful...
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Car Buyers Haven’t Been This Unhappy In A Decade
Even though car sales are up, reaching towards totals not seen since before the credit crisis, all of those new car owners aren’t exactly happy with their purchases. Owner satisfaction stood at 79 out...
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Couples Who Do This Together Are Happier
Study after study has shown that laughing is good for the soul. But now we know something else: sharing giggles with a romantic partner keeps the lovey-dovey feelings going, according to a study...
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How to Be Happier Without Really Trying
You are already a happiness expert. Seriously. You’re just a bit inconsistent. You already do a lot of things that researchers recommend for increased happiness. You just don’t realize it. And that’s...
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3 Secrets of a Happy Retirement
Have a retirement plan. Sit down with an adviser or planner and come up with a savings plan that take your retirement needs into account, particularly your healthcare. Learn about Medicare and...
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Being Yourself Can Make You Happier, According to Research
I’d revise it to “be your best self.” People who deliberately exercised their signature strengths — those qualities they were uniquely best at, the talents that set them apart from others — on a daily...
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What the New Nobel Prize Winner Has to Say About Money and Happiness
Before yesterday you might not have heard of Angus Deaton, the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics. But you probably did know something about his work—whether you realized it or not. In 2010...
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Adults Are Not Way Happier Than Teens Anymore: Study
A new study, published Thursday in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, found that the old adage that people over 30 are happier than teenagers and young adults may no longer be...
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For a Happier Life, Have Sex Once a Week
In news that could flood marital bedrooms around the globe with waves of either relief or anxiety, researchers have found that sex once a week is the optimum amount for maximizing happiness. Couples...
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Need More Evidence That Mid-Life Crises Are Real? Here You Go
If that sexy Porsche in your driveway isn’t proof enough that the midlife crisis is a very real thing, here comes a new study that shows most of us hit a low point when we arrive at middle age....
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Being Happy Won’t Make You Live Longer
It makes so much intuitive sense that most people don’t question it—if you’re happy, or find ways to make yourself happier, you’ll be better off, both physically and mentally. No surprise either that...
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The 5 Habits That Will Make You Happy, According to Science
So what’s going to make you happy? Let’s get more specific: what’s going to make your brain happy? And let’s focus on things that are simple and easy to do instead of stuff like winning the lottery....
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9 Ways Money Does Buy Happiness
Whenever someone tells me that money can’t buy happiness, I am often tempted to insist they give me all of their money as a way to test this theory. Research abounds on the “Can money buy happiness?”...
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The 7-Step Morning Ritual That Will Make You Happy All Day
We read a lot about this or that morning ritual that will make you productive. But what about one that makes you happy? Research shows that being happy actually makes you more productive. So let’s kill...
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