How to use our program
What you will need
The commitment to use our program a little each day
How much time is totally up to you. Some days you might just have enough time to write a few lines or a quote in your daily happiness, motivation and empowerment journal, something we will teach you how to use in this program. Other days you might want to spend a little more time reading about, writing about and setting goals that use something in our program that you really connect with and want to make part of your life. How much time you spend each day is totally up to you. Consistency is what really matters
What you will need
A daily journal
While you can use a spiral notebook we really suggest that you use our amazing 365 day Happiness, Motivation and Empowerment Journal (printable) and our journaling manual “Using a Daily Journal to Significantly Increase and Sustain Happiness, Motivation and Results in Every Area of Your Life”In our journaling manual we teach you to write about areas that you want to see change in and actions we teach you to incorporate into your daily life and many other things that will really change your life. . (See “Our HME Journaling Program” on the site menu to learn more about this amazing journaling program.)
Laying a strong foundation
To build any structure that will endure, you first need a strong foundation. If the foundation is weak, the structure will collapse.This includes creating a strong foundation of basic concepts and actions that will increase and sustain happiness, motivation, personal growth and results in every area of your life.
Why start with the basics
There is a vast amount of research in Positive Psychology. The sheer amount of information and topics can be overwhelming. But fortunately, the top experts have identified a small number of essential, core elements that significantly increase and sustain human happiness and thriving that anyone can understand and apply to build a happier, more effective life. We begin with a foundational course- an amazing mini course that you can take at your own pace. It’s the first step in becoming a daily happiness, motivation, and empowerment learner—a process that will really change your life.
Once you finish this course you can branch out and add new things to your life in an individualized manner.
Why Start with the Basics?
Our foundational course
Thriving: Increasing and sustaining meaningful and authentic happiness, motivation and effectiveness in every area of your life
What’s in the Foundational Course?
In this amazing mini course we will:
Learn some essential concepts in positive psychology
Look at the declining happiness level in America and where and why this is taking place.
Understand the tremendous benefits of working on increasing and sustaining “meaningful and authentic happiness” in every area of your life.
Look at the happiness myths we have been taught in our society- beliefs about what increase and sustains happiness that in reality don’t work or don’t give us the sustainable happiness we were taught to believe that they do.
Learn to re-frame these myths to support lasting happiness. (We don’t have to stop doing all these things but we need to put them into perspective and focus on what really does increase and sustain meaningful and sustainable happiness.)
Define happiness and well being in the most meaningful terms based on significant research in positive psychology and explore the core beliefs, principles, and actions research shows do work.
Create a daily process for putting these core beliefs, principles and actions into action in your daily life a little each day and turning them into habits of thinking and taking action…a part of who you are. This process is:
Fun and inspiring
Flexible and individualized
Designed to fit into even the busiest schedule
After completing the foundational course:
Choose the areas you want to work on in our program based on your own unique life.
Use our tools to take specific actions in the areas that matter most to you.
Track your growth using a daily Happiness, Motivation, and Empowerment Journal.
In Summary: How the Program Works
Build your foundation: Understand what real happiness is, challenge myths, and learn what works.
Become a daily learner: Access quick daily materials and build powerful habits.
Personalize your journey: Choose your focus areas and use tools that match your goals.
This approach is simple, research-based, and transformative—and it can start changing your life today.
Why start with the basics
There is a vast amount of research in Positive Psychology. The sheer amount of information and topics can be overwhelming. But fortunately, the top experts have identified a small number of essential, core elements that significantly increase and sustain human happiness and thriving that anyone can understand and apply to build a happier, more effective life. We begin with a foundational course- an amazing mini course that you can take at your own pace. It’s the first step in becoming a daily happiness, motivation, and empowerment learner—a process that will really change your life.
Once you finish this course you can branch out and add new things to your life in an individualized manner.
Our foundational course
There is a vast amount of research in Positive Psychology. The sheer amount of information and topics can be overwhelming. But fortunately, the top experts have identified a small number of essential, core elements that significantly increase and sustain human happiness and thriving that anyone can understand and apply to build a happier, more effective life. We begin with a foundational course- an amazing mini course that you can take at your own pace. It’s the first step in becoming a daily happiness, motivation, and empowerment learner—a process that will really change your life.
Once you finish this course you can branch out and add new things to your life in an individualized manner.
Thriving: An introduction to Positive Psychology
Core concepts and actions that will change your life
Our foundational course will lay a strong foundation for increasing and sustaining
"meaningful and authentic happiness", motivation and effectiveness in every area of your life
In this amazing mini course we will:
- Look at the declining happiness level in America and where and why this is taking place.
-Understand the tremendous benefits of working on increasing “meaningful and authentic happiness” in every area of your life.
-Examine the happiness myths we have been taught in our society- beliefs about what increase and sustain happiness that in reality don’t work or don’t give us the sustainable happiness we were taught to believe that they do.
-Learn to reframe these myths to support lasting happiness. (We don’t have to stop doing all these things but we need to put them into perspective and focus on what really does increase and sustain meaningful and sustainable happiness.)
-Define happiness and well being in the most meaningful terms based on significant research in positive psychology and explore the core beliefs, principles, and actions research shows do work.
-Create a personalized daily process you can use a little each day for putting these core beliefs, principles and actions into action in your daily life a little each day and turning them into habits of thinking and taking action…a part of who you are.
After completing the foundational course:
Choose the areas you want to work on in our program based on your own unique life.
Use our tools to take specific actions in the areas that matter most to you.
Track your growth using a daily Happiness, Motivation, and Empowerment Journal.
In Summary: How the Program Works
Build your foundation: Understand what real happiness is, challenge myths, and learn what works.
Become a daily learner: Access quick daily materials and build powerful habits.
Personalize your journey: Choose your focus areas and use tools that match your goals.
This approach is simple, research-based, and transformative—and it can start changing your life today.
Thriving: An introduction to Positive Psychology
Core concepts and actions that will change your life
How to Use Our Program: Building Happiness, Motivation, and Empowerment Your Way
Our daily happiness, motivation, and empowerment learning program is not just another course or self-help book you read and forget much or most of what you read in a few weeks or so. It’s a life-changing ongoing daily journey based on the powerful and research-based field of Positive Psychology—the study of what makes life most worth living.
But here’s something important to know: there’s a lot of material in this program. More than you’ll ever need to use all at once—and that’s a good thing. This program is designed to grow with you. Think of it like a personal toolbox: you’ll use some tools every day, some occasionally, and some only when a specific need arises.
So how do you make the most of it without getting overwhelmed?
1. Start with the Foundation
Every strong building starts with a strong foundation—and so does your happiness. Before you dive into specific interest areas, begin with the core principles of Positive Psychology:
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What is real, lasting happiness?
Learn to define happiness in meaningful and sustainable ways, not just fleeting pleasures. -
Identify common happiness myths
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These are false ideas many of us have been taught about what leads to happiness (like “I’ll be happy when I get rich,” or “Success comes before happiness”).
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Learn the key areas of well-being
You’ll be introduced to core frameworks like the PERMA model (Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Achievement), and how to steadily increase happiness in all of them, a little each day.
This foundation will guide everything else you do.
2. Practice the Core Habits
There are a few daily principles, beliefs, and simple actions we suggest everyone use—no matter what your goals are. These are research-backed and apply to almost every life area. They might include things like:
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Practicing gratitude
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Identifying Using your top character strengths
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Setting meaningfua using l goals
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Strengthening relationships
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Being kind to yourself
These practices can be done in just a few minutes a day, but over time, they build a happier, more empowered life.
3. Personalize the Rest
After you’ve laid your foundation, you can add new things to the process day by day using our program and your daily happiness, motivation and empowerment daily journal that you really connect with and want to make a part of your life
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Each student will have different needs and interests. You may want to focus on:
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Building self-confidence
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Strengthening relationships and your daily happiness, motivation and empowerment journal.
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Improving work or school happiness
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Or something else entirely
That’s why we encourage you to go where your interest and energy naturally lead. You’ll be growing in all the core areas of life over time—but at your pace, in your way.
4. Focus on “Fit”
In Positive Psychology, the idea of “fit” is essential. The tools you use need to fit you—your values, your preferences, your lifestyle.
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If journaling helps you reflect, use it.
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If you’d rather speak your thoughts aloud or listen to short audios—do that.
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If you dislike gyms but love walking outdoors or dancing in your living room—choose that.
There’s no one-size-fits-all path to happiness. What matters is choosing habits and strategies you’re more likely to enjoy and stick with over time.
5. Avoid Overwhelm—Start Small
When we present a main topic or sub-topic, we’ll often offer 5–10 ways you can increase happiness in that area.
But don’t try to do them all at once.
Choose one or two that appeal to you and try them out. See what works. Then, come back for more when you’re ready.
This program is designed to fit into your life—not take it over. Just a few minutes a day can make a powerful difference when you’re consistent and intentional.
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How to uswe our program
What you will need
How to use our program What you will need The commitment to spending even a little time with our program each day How much time is totally up to you. Somedays you might just have enough time to write a few lines or a quote in your daily happiness, motivation and empowerment journal, something we will teach you how to use in this program. Other days you might want to spend a little more time reading about, writing about and setting goals that use something in our program that you really connect with and want to make part of your life. How much time you spend each day is totally up to you. Consistency is what really matters A daily journal While you can use a spiral notebook we really suggest that you use our amazing 365 day Happiness, Motivation and Empowerment Journal (printable) and our journaling manual “Using a Daily Journal to Significantly Increase and Sustain Happiness, Motivation and Results in Every Area of Your Life” In our journaling manual we teach you to write about areas that you want to see change in and actions we teach you to incorporate into your daily life and many other things that will really change your life. . (See “Our HME Journaling Program” on the site menu to learn more about this amazing journaling program.) Laying a strong foundation “To build any structure that will endure, you first need a strong foundation. If the foundation is weak, the structure will collapse.” This includes creating a strong foundation of basic concepts and actions that will increase and sustain happiness, motivation, personal growth and results in every area of your life. Why Start with the Basics? There is a vast amount of research in Positive Psychology. But fortunately, the top experts have identified a small number of essential, core elements that anyone can understand and apply to build a happier, more effective life. We begin with a foundational course- an amazing mini course that you can take at your own pace. It’s the first step in becoming a daily happiness, motivation, and empowerment learner—a process that will really change your life. Our foundational course Thriving: Increasing and sustaining meaningful and authentic happiness, motivation and effectiveness in every area of your life What’s in the Foundational Course? In this amazing mini course we will: Look at the declining happiness level in America and where and why this is taking place. Understand the tremendous benefits of working on increasing “meaningful and authentic happiness” in every area of your life. Look at the happiness myths we have been taught in our society- beliefs about what increase and sutains happiness that in reality don’t work or don’t give us the sustainable happiness we were taught to believe that they do. Learn to reframe these myths to support lasting happiness. (We don’t have to stop doing all these things but we need to put them into perspective and focus on what really does increase and sustain meaningful and sustainable happiness.) Define happiness and well being in the most meaningful terms based on significant research in positive psychology and explore the core beliefs, principles, and actions research shows do work. Create a daily processs for putting these core beliefs, principles and actions into action in your daily life a little each day and turning them into habits of thinking and taking action…a part of who you are. This process is: Fun and inspiring Flexible and individualized Designed to fit into even the busiest schedule After completing the foundational course: Choose the areas you want to work on in our program based on your own unique life. Use our tools to take specific actions in the areas that matter most to you. Track your growth using a daily Happiness, Motivation, and Empowerment Journal. In Summary: How the Program Works Build your foundation: Understand what real happiness is, challenge myths, and learn what works. Become a daily learner: Access quick daily materials and build powerful habits. Personalize your journey: Choose your focus areas and use tools that match your goals. This approach is simple, research-based, and transformative—and it can start changing your life today.
Why a daily process?
CREATING HABITS OF THINKING AND ACTION THAT STICK
Reading a self help book or taking a self help course is great and can be really inspiring. But how many times have you read a book or taken a course in school and in a few weeks forgotten much or most of what you learned. I know that I have had this experience many times myself. We only learn and turn what we learn into actual habits of thinking and taking action through accessing, reinforcing, expanding and applying the essential principles, beliefs and actions that increase and sustain happiness, motivation and effectiveness and empowerment day by day a little each day. Also because we are human our motivation to become our best and happiest selves and create our best and happiest lives can fade from day to day and sometimes for longer periods of time. Being a daily happiness, motivation and empowerment learner and practitioner a little each day using our amazing program and daily support system will really keep you excited, motivated and inspired to become your best and happiest self and create your best and happiest life every single day.
How much time does it take?
even a little time each day is fine
Some days you might just have time to write a few sentences or a quote in your daily happiness, motivation and empowerment journal, something we will teach you how to use in this program that will really change your life. Other days you might spend more time on something you really connect with in our program reading about it, writing about it in your journal and setting goals that use it in your life. The key is consistency. We want to teach you to make working on becoming your best and happiest self and creating your best and happiest life something you really enjoy and look forward to doing a little each day like it was your favorite hobby.
What the process involves
The daily process includes: - accessing our materials a little each day and putting the beliefs, attitudes and actions in our program into action in your life day by day in an individualized way as we will teach you. (See "How to use our program" on the site menu.) - using a daily happiness, motivation and empowerment journal to write about and set goals with things you really connect with in our program and want to make part of your life and evaluate your actions based on results. In our program we have an amazing journaling program that includes a printable 365 day happiness, motivation and empowerment journal and an amazing journaling manual “How to Use Daily Journaling to Significantly Increase and Sustain Happiness, Motivation and Effectiveness in Every Area of Your Life”. You can learn more about it on the site menu tab “Our HME Daily Journaling Program” - attending our online weekday evening happiness, motivation and empowerment workshops and discussion groups when you can.
The power of consistency
why small daily steps really work
A Harvard University professor of Positive Psychology mentioned that when it comes to creating significant change in life in any area of our lives- emotionally, physically, in relationships, career success, financial well being and wealth building or in any area of life there are three kinds of people. The first kind of person is one who thinks that creating significant growth and change requires tremendous effort and self discipline as well as "natural ability" and because they feel they just do not have either don't set really challenging goals for increasing happiness, personal growth and results in life. The second kind of person believes that self discipline and effort is essential and starts out putting out tremendous effort when they want to accomplish something. This is the kind of person however who goes to the gym every day for an hour and a half to lose weight but who burns out in a week or two, and quits. The third kind of person is someone who realizes that taking small consistent daily steps toward a big goal and for creating real growth and change in their lives is the best way to accomplish the personal growth and results that they really want in life. Taking small steps increasingly builds your skill set and confidence as you begin to see increasing results. Small consistent steps lead to bigger and bigger steps and to significant personal growth and results.