More Reasons Work Makes Us Happy
On Tuesday we explored some research showing that work actually makes us happier than we think it does. While people regularly tell researchers that they prefer home to work, they tend to be happier at...
View ArticleLooking on the Bright Side
Here at Optimize Your Life we are spending 2018 improving our lives. Each month gets its own theme, and April’s is the science of happiness. We’ve already learned that 40% of our happiness is fully...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Life
We’ve spent the month of April around here exploring the science of happiness. We’ve covered a lot of ground in a short period of time. (A Tuesday/Thursday schedule only produces eight articles in...
View ArticleMoney CAN Buy Happiness
Here at Optimize Your Life we are spending 2018 systematically working through different topics in an attempt to design and live a better life. For May, we will be exploring the topic of money and...
View ArticleHow Much Does Happiness Cost?
On Tuesday we took our first dive into the intersection between money and happiness. We’ll build on this foundation for the rest of May. What we found was that some amount of money allows us to spend...
View ArticleMaterialism and Happiness
Last month, while exploring the science of happiness, we learned about hedonic adaptation. Hedonic adaptation is one of the key forces that prevents us from becoming happier. It misleads us into...
View ArticleGetting More Happiness out of your Stuff
When looking into the relationship between money and happiness, as we are this month, there are a number of different approaches to take. First, we can get a big picture overview. We did that last week...
View ArticleThe Best Happiness Bang for Your Buck
We’re spending the month of May exploring the intersection between money and happiness. We’ve already learned that money CAN buy happiness, but that you’re probably spending it wrong. One way to get...
View ArticleBuying Happiness by Giving Away Your Money
This month at Optimize Your Life we are exploring the intersection of money and happiness. We spent the first week of May learning the basics and how low income can cause unhappiness. Last week we...
View ArticleWhen More Money Will Make You Less Happy
We’ve been spending this month exploring how best to spend our money to get the most happiness. We’ve covered a lot of ground already, including a few ways to get more happiness out of the money that...
View ArticleBalancing Money and Happiness Over Time
As we close out our month exploring the intersection of money and happiness, we’ve learned quite a bit. We’ve learned how money and happiness are linked and how a threshold level of income avoids...
View ArticleGetting Healthier!
Here at Optimize Your Life, we’re spending 2018 figuring out how to live our best possible lives. Each month, we’re examining a different topic that helps us get there. In January we learned about life...
View ArticlePlanning for Better Health
We’re spending the month of June exploring health. Specifically, we’re going to spend much of it looking at nutrition and exercise. I explained in the last post that this month will be from a more...
View ArticleExperiments in Eating Better
Focusing on my health was never really a priority for me. That is, of course, a privilege for which I have been quite lucky. My health has always been good enough that it never had to be a priority....
View ArticleExperiments in Exercise
In my quest to improve my health, I have been working on improving my nutrition and my exercise routine. I expected nutrition to be hard. I expected exercise to be easy. Well…maybe not easy, per se,...
View ArticleGo To Bed. Seriously.
We can’t leave our month of talking about health without hitting on sleep. We already looked at sleep in the context of productivity and time management. There are lots of great productivity reasons...
View ArticleBetter Life – Second Quarter Update
2018 is a year of self-improvement. I’m spending each month exploring a different area of life and figuring out how best to improve and optimize. So far we’ve covered life planning, personal finance...
View ArticleFeeling Less Negative
In our quest to explore a new topic for improving our lives every month this year, we’ve already touched on happiness twice. First, we looked at the science of happiness. Building upon that foundation,...
View ArticleFinding Serenity
We’re spending the month of July looking for keys to happiness in philosophy. Today, we’re going to explore one specific quote. There is often a great power in quotes. When someone can distill an idea...
View ArticleWhen Bad Things Happen to Good People
We are continuing our exploration of happiness and philosophy today with a topic that cannot be addressed with science and data. Why do bad things happen to good people? This is a question that is...
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