Your Happiness Calendar for September 2020
This month, process your emotions and connect with what matters.
Episode 73: How to Switch Off Your Critics
Do you obsess over negative feedback? Shereen Marisol Meraji, of NPR’s Code Switch, tries a better way to cope.
Seven Ways to Find Your Purpose in Life
Having a meaningful, long-term goal is good for your well-being. Here’s how to find one.
Find Purpose by Connecting Across Generations
Relationships with people of different ages can bring meaning, joy, and a better world.
How Purpose Changes Across Your Lifetime
Purpose is not a destination, suggests research, but a journey and a practice.
How to Connect with What Matters to You
In the face of a crisis, this exercise can help you identify your most important values. Based on the podcast episode "How to Deal with…
What Is Your Purpose as a Father?
New studies suggest that having a sense of purpose makes dads healthier, happier, and stronger in the face of challenges we're all facing.
Episode 69: What’s Your “Why” in Life?
Adrian Michael Green asks big questions designed to help teens—and adults—find more meaning and purpose in their lives.
How to Find Your Purpose in Life
Are you struggling to discover your purpose? That may be because you feel isolated from other people. Here's how you can overcome that.
How to Help Teens Find Purpose
Teens are naturally driven to seek new experiences—and that may be the key to helping them develop a sense of purpose in life.
Is a Happy Life Different from a Meaningful One?
A scientific controversy about the relationship between meaning and happiness raises fundamental questions about how to live a good life.
How to Find Your Purpose in Midlife
New research shows that a sense of purpose in life is important for midlife and older adults, not just for kids.
How to Talk with Teens about Purpose
A Q&A with Kendall Bronk about instilling purpose in teens—and the emerging research showing why it's so important.
How Awe Can Help Students Develop Purpose
Research suggests that inducing awe in the classroom might inspire kids to find a sense of purpose in life
Could Stress Help You Find Your Purpose in Life?
Stress can serve as both a barrier and a motivator to purpose development in youth of color.
Can Purpose Keep You Alive?
Young people: Do you want to live longer? Try finding a sense of purpose in your life.