1. The pursuit of happiness is our biggest roadblock on the way towards it.
2. Put your phone out of sight when talking to someone.
3. Try to take 10,000 steps a day.

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There are many books, movies, and entire cultures built around the pursuit of happiness. It’s what fuels the American Dream (and life in most other Western countries), and while there’s a lot of debate around what it should look like, hardly anyone questions the premise itself:

Have you ever seen two people in a restaurant, sitting opposite each other, each staring at their own smartphone? It’s a nightmare. The only thing that’s worse is when just one person stares at their phone, and leaves the other one hanging.

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A 2014 study found that conversations, where no phone is visually present, are significantly superior to those, where a phone is on the table, in someone’s hand, or otherwise in sight .

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It sounds like a lot, but it really isn’t. 10,000 steps equals roughly 5 miles (or 8 km) a day. According to Tom, walking increases your energy levels by 150%, and since I started paying more attention to it, I feel he’s right. Do this to make sure you hit your 10,000 step goal each day:

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The 32 year old consultant on his race towards his next pay raise, the 54 year old mum, who’s fascinated with her discovery of Instagram and can’t put her phone down, and anyone who spends most of their weekend walking from the couch to the fridge and back.

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Is happiness even something that must be pursued?

Well, Tom Rath isn’t “hardly anyone”, so he raises just that question. He believes thinking that, as long as we spend enough time chasing it, we’ll eventually find happiness is one of the biggest misconceptions of the

Have you ever seen two people in a restaurant, sitting opposite each other, each staring at their own smartphone? It’s a nightmare. The only thing that’s worse is when just one person stares at their phone, and leaves the other one hanging.

I’ve always tried to avoid using my phone in conv...

Are You Fully Charged shows you the three keys to arriving at work and life with a battery that’s brimming with happiness and motivation, which are energy, interactions and meaning, and how to implement ...

You might have already learned that external motivation ruins internal motivation . But if Tom Rath is right, this means it actively makes you unhappier , instead of just not increasing your happiness.

He says happine...

"There is nothing wrong with working on important individual milestones, as long as you understand that they may not be memories you treasure 25 years from now."

-Tom Rath

Here’s a crazy fact: You sit more than you sleep . On average, people sit for 9.3 hours a day, while sleeping only for 7.7 . According to Tom Rath, this is what happens when you sit for extended perio...