The New Happy Newsletters - The New Happy

If you want to be happier, there is one profoundly simple strategy for more happiness, so obvious and effective, and yet that almost no one uses, all because of ​Old Happy conditioning​.

Said strategy: find happines...

A healthy relationship requires a healthy balance: of giving and receiving, of listening and speaking, of giving feedback and taking it, of helping and being helped.

To discern your balance, you can’t look to a single day. You have to zoom out and look at it from a broader perspective. Some days, you’...

In relationships, conflict is inevitable.

John and Julie Gottman, the leading researchers in the science of romantic relationships, have discovered that even the happiest couples experience conflict. What's more, nearly 70% of this conflict cannot be resolved; it's based upon fundamental differences b...

Old Happy: I can’t do it.
New Happy: I will do it, if I take it one step at a time.

When John Steinbeck was writing The Grapes of Wrath, he kept a ​daily diary​, planning to use it to track his...

You want that person to change. You want the past to have gone differently. You want the future to go your way.

One of the hardest things about being human is that at the end of the day, we don’t have a lot of control over what happens to us. This is incredibly hard on our w...