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People should be able to track their happiness in a similar way they track their fitness goals.
Apps tracking happiness effectively served as a glorified research project. The conclusion: people are happiest when they stop their minds from wandering.
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Map out your happy places
There are very few tools that can help us research, track and plan our own happiness. Online services now let users map out their happy places and discover where others have felt happy.
In theory, you can find the happiest spots in any part of the world where you could feed off...
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Not just a feeling
Happiness isn't just a feeling that should be left entirely to chance. There are specific factors that influence your happiness, which can be easily tracked with the right tools.
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The thoughts in your mind
We are so intimate with our thoughts that we never really stop to pay close attention to our wandering minds. When we do look at our thoughts, they turn out to be more interesting than we imagined.
A 2013 review points to huge individual differences between people in how much time they...
Cherish the current happy moment
Research has recently shown that people tend to feel unhappy whenever they focus on what brings them happiness in the long term.
However, if they chose to stay in the present moment, their happiness would not be in any way affected. Therefore, if you really want to feel happy, try focus...
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Pursue intrisic goals: Achieving goals that you are intrinsically motivated to pursue, particularly ones that are focused on personal growth and community, can help boost happiness. Research suggests that pursuing these types of
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