14 Proven Ways To Increase Your Happiness Today

Learn how to improve your happiness today.

Steve Spring
The Startup
Published in
9 min readJul 25, 2018

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Happiness… the one thing people want so much, is the one thing they know so little about…” — Michael Fordyce

Happiness is the thing that most people want out of life.

The fundamental reason why happiness is so important is that it’s vital to your success in achieving your most important goals in life. Most people believe that success leads to happiness, but research by Sonja Lyubomirsky suggests that happiness leads to greater success in life.

You need to be happy if you want to be successful.

One of the first psychologists to focus on the study of happiness was Dr. Michael Fordyce. During his three decades of studying happiness, he created a set of scientifically proven ways to increase happiness.

“Each of these fourteen happiness traits, according to the research, make a significant contribution to the happiness that the happiest individuals enjoy.” — Michael Fordyce

These fourteen ways, or “fundamentals” as he called them have been “scientifically proven to noticeably improve the happiness of virtually everyone that has chosen to apply them.” If you choose to apply them to your life your will be happier too.

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Steve Spring
The Startup

Husband, Father, Christian, coffee lover. Writer for Live Your Life On Purpose, The Startup, Better Humans, BeYourself and The Ascent.