Happiness comes from within.

So the three keys to happiness include:

1. Knowing who you are - your strengths, your success patterns, your desire to serve others, make an impact, and leave a legacy. At Thrivable You, knowing yourself  is developed in the Thriving Skills of EXPLORE-ability and SERVE-ability.
2. Creating a mindset for the future you want - a clear understanding of your aspiration, the attitude you have today, and your thoughts about the tomorrow you want to live. We teach a Thrivability Mindset that allows you to give yourself permission to cultivate the happiness you want.
3. Living in your wholeness - fully expressing yourself as you are created. Culturally, we have a habit of shrinking ourselves to make room for the world's expectation of us. This state of neutral makes it hard to be happy. We help people transform their life experience from neutral to extraordinary.

The science is clear. Money buys happiness in a short-term dopamine-hit way. The euphoria is brief. And in the euphoria, one's behavior remains consistent with how they behaved with less money.

So it's likely that both the euphoria and the money won't last.

Humans are subject to the hedonic treadmill, which simply means that good things don't last.

For example, a new car is exciting at first, but it soon becomes just a mode of transportation (that requires maintenance and insurance). A new job brings feeling of accomplishment and progress, positive emotions that wane as the work demands increase.

Most lottery winners end up in the financial position they were in prior to purchasing the winning ticket.

Why? Because sustained happiness takes concerted effort over time, and requires adopting new identities demonstrated in aligned routines and habits. This is very difficult for any person to do without guidance and support.

Thrivable You can help you make happiness easy by building thriving skills. When you're thriving, you come alive and experience the extraordinary...which is more than money can buy.

Many people search for happiness, hoping to find it.

However, deep fulfillment and authentic joy must be cultivated within oneself.  Thriving Skills are the process of doing that internal work to become a cultivator of the happiness you desire.

When you're thriving, happiness comes easily.

As human beings, we experience a wide range of emotions. Striving to be happy all of the time prevents us from the wisdom all emotions provide.

Emotions are energy in motion, signals for us to interpret so we can choose action to create personal alignment with how we want to feel.

At Thrivable You, we can help you build skills to recognize all your emotions and respond to them for the outcomes you want in life. Thriving Skills can help you handle what's tough (the negative emotions) and stack up more joy (cultivate positive emotions) to live a life you love.

Research shows that happiness and health are correlated.

Happiness contributes to:

• Greater longevity
• Stronger immune system
• Better sleep
• Improved diet
• Regular exercise
• Pain relief
• Better decision making
• Stronger relationships 

Happier people do better in nearly every aspect of life.

Living a fulfilling life is unique to each person. 

It requires knowing yourself and how you cultivate moments of joy. When you identify the experiences that generate positivity, that use your strengths, that connect you with others in meaningful ways, you begin to recognize what is fulfilling to you.

To live a fulfilling life is to prioritize those moments in your life -- to enjoy more of those moments, and to cultivate new moments of joy.

It's in our human nature to seek fulfillment. We are meaning-making machines.

Fulfillment is a combination of accomplishment, life satisfaction and contentment. It rises from a sense of expressed purpose.

To find fulfillment is to cultivate experiences of your unique, authentic joy that produce those desired feelings. 

Fulfillment is subjective, unique to each human being.

So, to know if you're living a fulfilled life requires self examination over comparison. Ask yourself  questions like:

Do I feel joy regularly? When? How does it come about?

Do I engage my strengths regularly? Do I engage them in new ways?

Do I make a positive difference in the lives of other people? How?

For a more analytical measurement, see the scientific questionnaires available at https://www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu/

Happiness is a lasting state of being generated by moments of joy.

 Happiness is generated by increasing your moments of joy. We cultivate more joy in two ways:

• Increase the frequency of the moments of joy you're already having.
• Create new moments of joy.

Happiness is the result of handling what's tough in life, stacking up more joy, and living a life you love.

We help people build Thriving Skills because happiness is the fruit of thriving.

Thriving is cultivating more joy in your life. 

Cultivate more joy in your life by increasing your unique expressions in the six pathways of human thriving:

POSITIVE EMOTION: Increase the moments in your life that generate good feelings - time in nature or sunshine, exercise, and laughter.

ENGAGEMENT: Increase your time doing things that challenge you but your skills meet the challenge. These activities create a state a flow where you lose track of time in the mere enjoyment.

RELATIONSHIPS: Spend more time with people you care about and who care about you. 

MEANING: Create experiences where you engage your life purpose or connect to something greater than yourself.

ACHIEVEMENT: Make progress in something you're working toward.

VITALITY: Move your body, take deep breaths, drink more water, manage stress, get abundant rest.