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Sonja Lyubomirsky is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of the bestseller The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want, a book of strategies backed by scientific research that can be used to increase happiness.

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Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i. e. , seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.

Genetic, Happiness, Lying, Makeup, Seeking

It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.

Goal, Challenges, Vision, Valued, Challenging, Turns

If we observe genuinely happy people, we shall find that they do not just sit around being contented. They make things happen. They pursue new understandings, seek new achievements, and control their thoughts and feelings. In sum, our intentional, effortful activities have a powerful effect on how happy we are, over and above the effects of our set points and the circumstances in which we find themselves. If an unhappy person wants to experience interest, enthusiasm, contentment, peace, and joy, he or she can make it happen by learning the habits of a happy person.

Happen, Happiness, Joy, Powerful, Sum, Unhappy Person

Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.

Commitment, Effort, Habitual, Huge, Strategy

All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more 'natural' and 'ingrained' they will become. With time they will be part of you, and you will have made yourself into an altogether different person.

Goal, Natural, Optimistic, Practice, Required

. . . The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

Depressed, Envious, Gratitude, Lonely, Person

Women’s magazines will often ask me things like, 'All right, I need six five-minute happiness strategies. ' And I say, well, there aren’t any five-minute happiness strategies. This is something you have to do kind of every day for the rest of your life. Just like if you want to raise moral children or if you want to advance in your career. It’s a goal you pursue your whole life.

Careers, Children, Day, Goal, Whole

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

Happiness, Hands, Today, Take, Happy

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

Forgiving, Hateful, Likely, People

People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.

Events, Likely, Looking, Optimistic, People

No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or are a slim couch potato, you've probably heard or read this dictum countless times throughout your life. But has anyone told you-indeed, guaranteed you-that regular physical activity will make you happier? I swear by it.

Energy, Exercise, Guaranteed, Make, Needs, Overweight

The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.

Mood, People, Ruminate, Self, Shows, Toxic

Find a happy person, and you will find a project.

Happy, Happy Person, Meaningful, Person, Project, Projects

I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.

Joy, Life Is Good, Meaningful, Positive, Refer, Worthwhile

Write down your barrier thoughts, and then consider ways to reinterpret the situation. In the process, ask yourself questions like. . . What else could this situation or experience mean? Can anything good come from it? Does it present any opportunities for me? What lessons can I learn and apply to the future? Did I develop any strengths as a result?

Future, Learn, Mean, Opportunity, Process, Writing

In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

Behave, Found, Goal, Happiness, Set, Thinking