‘Tis the time of year for resolutions. Whether it’s making them, keeping them, or, more often than not, breaking them. The Internet is flooded with recommendations for what to do and how to do it. But ...

Editor’s Note: Grace Ueng is the founder of Savvy Growth, a noted leadership coaching and management consulting firm, and an expert on happiness and human performance. Grace writes a regular column on ...

Pursuing happiness too intensely can lead to less wellbeing. Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels. We all want to be happy. At least that seems to be the message that we get from society: Pursue ...

Today’s Happiness Break Guide: Spring Washam, is a meditation teacher based in Oakland, California. She is also the author of the book, The Spirit of Harriet Tubman: Awakening from the Underground. We ...

Bestselling author and columnist Arthur Brooks is inspiring people through his writing to embrace happiness. The behavioral ...

Ms. Grose is a Times Opinion writer and the author of a Times newsletter on culture, social change and the American family. Aug. 8, 2024 Three times a day my phone pings with a notification telling me ...

Have you ever felt motivated to improve your own happiness—but had trouble finding practices for doing so? To help people find what can work for them, we at the Greater Good Science Center created a ...

If you studied economics or business, you might be familiar with Goodhart’s law. Named after British economist Charles Goodhart, it states “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good ...

Sometimes that’s true. Sometimes success is a driver of happiness. But the opposite is more often true. As a review of over 200 happiness studies published in Psychological Bulletin found, happiness ...

If you thought happiness was a warm puppy or a good tax refund, think again. According to the U.N., it’s a data point on a chart topped by Finland and mysteriously featuring Mexico and Israel in the ...