What is happiness, anyway?
What is happiness? How would you define it? Defining happiness is the first step towards building more of it. But that doesn’t mean it is a simple task! Within the science of positive psychology, you can find quite many definitions of happiness. Most of them agrees on some basic foundations (the ones we will also […]
This is how resilience works – and an exercise to strengthen it
A great way of understanding how our resilience works is to think of it as a POOL of resilience, similar to a big natural pool of water. Similar to a pool, resilience is a CAPACITY – something that at each given moment we have to a certain level full (or that at times gets empty […]
5 tips to move from languishing to wellbeing
LANGUISHING is all the buzz these day. It is that place between being unwell, and full wellbeing. It is away from suffering or depression, but it is also not flourishing. That gray area, where you can’t say that something is super wrong, but that doesn’t feel super right either. It is marked by having trouble […]
Build the unshakeable, steady confidence with these tips and tools
When we are confident, we feel safe and relaxed. We feel encouraged to step into new challenges and raise the bar for ourselves, which in turns leads us to learn more and achieve higher results. Confidence is a cornerstone of resilience, as well as an essential ingredient in our wellbeing, as it shapes how we […]
Want to build resilience and strength? Don’t “just step out of your comfort zone”
When we talk about resilience, one of the most common pieces of advice is to “face your fears”, “just step out of your comfort zone”, “just do it”. Even though this approach can give you a boost in resilience, it has a danger hidden in it: if you jump into action and it doesn’t go […]
Your own Life Design: 7 easy exercises that will help you re-focus
Life Design is a mindset, decision and a process of taking an intentional, deliberate, and motivating approach to building the life that makes you happy, fulfilled and that feels “right” for you. Here you can find 7 free tools and resources from Happiness Academy to help you create a life you love. And if you […]
Rewrite your story, change your life
“Your life is your story. Write well. Edit often.” — Susan Statham How are you telling the story of your life? And no, I don’t mean what is your pitch or brand or how are you presenting yourself to others. I mean, how are you telling your own story to yourself? Who are you? What is your […]
7 traps on the way to happiness
The path of a happy life is full of traps. Now and then, some of these traps mess up our happiness a bit – and often we don’t even know what happened! Let’s explore them, understand our brain a bit better – and learn how to avoid them 🙂 Why would our brain want to […]
Too good for your own good?
Brain trap #7: giving too much to others and too little to ourselves Are you one of those people who get lost in making everyone else happy, and forget to make yourself happy? Stuck with being a really nice and a good person to everyone in your life (or at least to loved ones)… to […]
Happiness? It’s all in your head
Brain trap #6: how our thinking dictates our happiness Nothing – seriously, nothing – impacts our happiness as powerfully as our thinking patterns. The way we internalise our experiences, the way we tell stories to ourselves about events in our life, the way we assign meaning to things, the way we take (or don’t take) […]