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Helping other people to be happier is the very best way to help yourself to be happier, too. Acts of kindness positively affect your mental, emotional and even physical well-being, with studies demonstrating that it can lower both your blood pressure and cortisol. Even people w...

Here’s a common trap we fall into when setting goals.

We come up with an idea of the thing that we want — our end goal. Then, because we know we need to break our big goals into smaller ones, we come up with a short-term goal. With all of our energy, we pursue that short-term goal.

Sometimes, un...

The single most important factor for happiness is our relationships with other people.

And, yet, I think we can also all acknowledge that our relationships frequently get put on the backburner, deprioritized in favor of goals and responsibilities and deadlines.

In your next interaction, you can...

Look around: everything you see was once just an idea that someone envisioned and turned into a reality.

You, too, have your own ideas and they're within you for a reason: they want you to make them a reality. In order to do that, you have to overcome the greatest barrier there is: your own f...

You expect yourself to do a million things today, and to do them all perfectly, and to never upset anyone, and to make sure everyone loves you, and to do it all without ever feeling stressed or overwhelmed or grumpy or tired.

And you wonder why you're so tired.

Old Happy — our society's...