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Living A Happier Life

When thinking about how to live a happier life, it may be useful to recall several fundamental realities. First, happiness is intensely personal. Next, happiness, like life itself, is a continuum. And finally, as Aristotle recognized long ago, “Happiness depends on ourselves.” It therefore also seems likely that a ‘reliable system for making wise choices’ is more helpful than the ‘one-size-fits-all, three-easy-steps-to-happiness’ prescriptions we sometimes see.

Developing our own personal happiness systems is what this website is all about. The Primer page describes how changes in our thinking, behavior, and circumstances can make our lives more productive and rewarding. An easy-to-use assessment tool to help identify what makes you both happy and unhappy is provided on the Appraisal page. The Decisions page lays out some common sense ideas for making decisions that you will not later regret.

For the website to be most useful, it is important that we have a common understanding of what the words used on it mean. It is not unusual for words to mean different things to various people, especially words that are not often heard or seen in everyday communications. And sometimes words simply have more than one meaning. In any event, these differences can and often do cause significant misunderstandings. So the intended meanings of some words used on this website are specifically defined. When words or terms appear like how the word primer is shown here, that indicates that hovering, clicking, or tapping on them will cause their intended meanings to be displayed. The intended meanings of all these specifically defined words are compiled on the Glossary page.

This site is a throwback to a simpler time when the internet came into being as a mechanism for sharing information and ideas. To this end, it is completely non-commercial. There are no cookies, user profiles, passwords, or advertisements. It exists as a free online resource for anyone who wants to live a happier and more successful life.