Happiness/Joy

It’s not a rat race for money, success and achievement. The quest for true happiness has far more value – for you and everyone around you.

Commuters who bike to work are the happiest — and have the highest sense of overall well-being — compared with those who drive cars or use public transportation, according to a Portland State University study.

Enhance joy with gratitude. Write and share a heartfelt letter. Discover how.

Ideas on obsessing less about happiness from author Oliver Burkeman’s best-selling new book.

To boost your happiness, use continuative verbs when recalling positive events.

Why couples who focus on mutual core values are happier.

Here are tips on how to cultivate a healthy attitude towards foods — and get rid of the “good food”/”bad food” syndrome.

Although we tend to think we are happiest in our leisure hours – most satisfied when we are relaxed with absolutely nothing to ponder – the truth is quite the opposite.

For as little as these locations have in common, they share one delightful trait: Their residents rate among the happiest in the world. Find out what they know, and what they can teach the rest of us, about living well.

At work, at home and on the go, you probably spend hours enmeshed in the Web. Is it time to pull more of your life free of its sticky grasp?

Marci Shimoff, author Happy for No Reason, offers feel-good advice on positive-psychology wisdom.

In an environment of economic contraction, many of us are looking for meaningful ways to cut back. Here’s good advice on how to get by with a little less, and enjoy it more.

When we set aside the stereotypes we have about raising teenagers, we can better approach the real challenges that arise – and rediscover the joy in our relationships with our children.

More than a decade ago, authors Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez helped launch the voluntary-simplicity movement with their ideas for living more richly — by spending less. Today, for many, that penny-wise approach seems smarter than ever.