“As a neuroscientist, I really like the idea of the program….” – a user review
Measure your happiness. Track Your progress. And record what goes well each day.
Daily awareness and tracking of emotions is one of the first steps toward lasting, sustainable happiness
Two decades of research show that focusing on what goes well, and why, helps you build your life around authentic sources of happiness
Application includes an introductory video from Prof. Martin Seligman, of the University of Pennsylvania
Our Mission: We inspire people to be happier.
happier.com inspires people to be happier and more resilient every day. Through assessments and exercises to measure, track and improve happiness, thousands of users have experienced a meaningful improvement. Easy-to-use applications, both online and for the iPhone, provide users with the tools they need to be happier.
Everything we offer is based on leading research. We partner with psychologists including Dr. Martin Seligman, author of “Learned Optimism” and “Authentic Happiness” and the founder of the field of positive psychology.
We just came back from the First World Congress on Positive Psychology in Philadelphia. At the Congress, many practitioners expressed frustration at the lack of ways to market their practice and attract new clients. Existing directories are not focused enough on positive psychology, and practitioners get lost among the legions of traditional therapists and life-coaches without an underlying scientific approach. And, let’s face it, the best practitioners often don’t have time to build up their own web presences, let-alone market themselves. That’s where the happier.com practitioner directory comes in.
Publicize your practice to the largest and most-current group of people interested in using positive psychology in their lives
Get paying clients
Let us take care of the technical
Hosted at directory.happier.com
Link to your blog or personal web page
Benefit from fast-growing traffic to happier.com
Rank high in Google and other directories
We will publicize your listing via Twitter, Facebook, LInkedIn, and in our own email newsletters and blog posts
Unlimited leads for one cost
Google ad words, search engine optimization, email campaigns and link building
Build an identity within the happier.com community
In the last week, the directory has doubled in size! More than 40 practitioners have already joined (many listings are still awaiting editing). Think you should join too? Check out our special pricing and site features.
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.
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.
We think the happier.com exercises are pretty cool. And, the last thirty years of research show that making a commitment to doing these exercises as a part of your daily and weekly routines will increase your happiness, decrease your pessimism, and improve your resilience. But, don’t take my word for it – the happier.com user community has spoken. A group of users was asked to rate several exercises on a scale of one to five (1 – poor, 2 – not very good, 3 – good, 4 – very good, 5 – excellent) and the average was 4 – or, “very good.”
Not surprisingly, three good things was rated the highest of the first three exercises with a 4.5. This exercise is easy to use and has been proven to yield immediate results. I do this exercise every night on happier.com. No matter how bad my day is, this always make me feel better. And, I love the fact that I can look back over time to see what I am most grateful for in my life. (Just for the record, it’s family, exercise, work, and friends. So, now I make these priorities for me.)
The next highest rating was awarded to have a good a good day (3.9 out of 5). have a good day allows users to take a quick look at the activities of the day, rate the day on a scale of 1 to 10, and then determine which activity was the “best.” According to happier.com consultant Dr. Chris Peterson, do this exercise every day for about a month and you will learn what makes a “good day.” “In my own case, I discovered that a good day was one in which I finished something that had been nagging at me, either at work, for example, sending off letters of recommendation for a student applying to law schools, or at home, for example vacuuming my living room,” says Peterson. happier.com makes this incredibly easy by allowing you to look at your activities and days from multiple views.
Next on the list is the control negative thoughts exercise (3.9 out of 5). Working at a growing start-up company (even one that is focused on happiness) brings its stressful moments. This exercise has helped me stop the negative spiral on more than one occasion. What is really powerful about the happier.com version of this is that I can look at my negative thoughts over time and see patterns. By recognizing patterns, I have become more mindful which has allowed me to control the negativity before it really affects my mood and ability to function at a high level.
Which exercise is your favorite? Please feel free to leave a comment. (If you cannot see the comment section, click here then scroll down.)
Over the course of the next couple of weeks, we will ask members of the community to rate the remaining exercises. After that we will build a rating system right into happier.com (much like that of Amazon.com) where users can rate exercises at any time, provide full reviews, and even tell us if you found the review to be helpful.
Since April 22, 1970, people all over the world have been celebrating their commitment to building a safer, cleanier, healthier planet for all of us. And, while there is only one official day each year that we focus on our planet, the team at happier.com has committed to celebrating Earth Day every day.
To show our dedication to the environment, we have taken several steps to reduce our own carbon footprint. First, we hired a solar-powered web hosting service – www.aiso.net. That’s right, our servers are powered by the sun, so getting happier means no harmful pollutants are pushed into the atmosphere by the electricity needed to power the data center.
happier.com is 100% powered by the sun
Second, we have changed our own routines by shutting down our office and going virtual. Your happier.com team works remotely and uses the available technologies that allow us work from home and avoid commuting to a physical office.
Next, we use public transportation as often as is possible when it’s absolutely necessary for us to meet in person. Our staff is located on the East Coast of the United States and we do our best to take the train, ride a bus, or just hop on a bike if we’re all in the same city. (Yours truly drives a Prius since there isn’t much public transportation where I live…)
So, what does this approach have to do with inspiring people to be happier? Dr. Martin Seligman talks about true happiness having three major components: positive emotions, engagement, and meaning. Being more conscious of our own environmental impact and sharing this information with others makes us feel good – plain and simple. We all take joy in knowing that we’re taking some positive steps. When discussing this as a team, we all experience some level of meaning and engagement. We know that our actions (as small as they may be) are making an impact on something larger than ourselves.
So, from the team at happier.com to all of our visitors, friends, family, and colleagues all over the world, we wish you all the positive emotions, engagement, and meaning you can handle on Earth Day.
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