Building optimism and positivity just got easier. I am proud to announce that happier.com has added one new exercise (What Door Opened?) and another highly-validated test (Positivity Test) to its growing library of tools to inspire you to be happier and more resilient.

What Door Opened?

“The first step in learning optimism is to realize that in your own life, every time a door closed, another door opened,” says Dr. Martin Seligman, consultant to happier.com.

What Door Opened helps you:

• make accurate, realistic descriptions of past adversities
• find the silver lining in things that have gone wrong
• learn lessons from bad events
• build optimism when facing adversities in the future
• discover lessons of resilience in the real-life stories of others

Positivity Test

Dr. Barbara Fredrickson has discovered that experiencing positive emotions in a 3-to-1 ratio with negative ones leads people to a tipping point beyond which they naturally become more resilient to adversity and effortlessly achieve what they once could only imagine.

With the permission of Dr. Fredrickson, happier.com can now offer the test that makes it possible to determine how much positivity exists in your life. The Positivity Test is only 20 questions long and is designed to be taken every day. You get instant results and you can track your progress over time.

Positivity Portfolio

To take advantage of our new test and all the other great tools on happier.com, we have developed a new feature to help you keep all of your positive activities in place – the Positivity Portfolio. Think of it as your own, personal recipe book for generating positivity. With the Positivity Portfolio, you can label your entries from various exercises which empowers you to take a broader view of the activities that give you the most positivity and engage them more frequently.

And, one last reminder…

To get the most out of your experience on happier.com and see real change in your life, we highly recommend that you set up some reminders to help you remember to use your favorite tests and exercises.

happier.com is a personal trainer for your happiness. With more than a dozen tools and tests to help you measure, track and improve your happiness, you can trust the happier.com experts to help you reach your goals. Exclusive videos and a popular blog mean there’s something new to learn every day. Download the free iPhone application or find what you’re looking for with the Positive Psychology Practitioner Directory. happier.com is on Facebook, LinkedIn, and twitter and has meetup groups in Washington, Philadelphia, and Portland, with more planned. Click here for a social media press release from our launch.