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Happiness

Creating a happier life might be easier than you think. Discover how your character strengths can make it happen.

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Happiness
Research-Backed Strategies To Help You Flourish
Exercises to improve your well-being and boost happiness.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Happiness
10 Do's and Don'ts of Character Strengths for Mental Health
In this post, I focus on some of the Do’s and Don’ts of how our character strengths can help us tap into psychological well-being and optimally manage struggles.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Course

Start with Strengths
Book

The Power of Character Strengths: Appreciate and Ignite Your Positive Personality
5 Happiness Boosters with Strengths

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Happiness
Research Reveals: Money Can Buy Happiness
New research reveals there might be a way to purchase a little bit of happiness.
By Dr. Neal Mayerson
Happiness
Ways to Use Strengths to Boost Your Mental Well-Being
How your core strengths help you improve your psychological well-being
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Happiness
The Power of the Timeout
A story about a strength-based coach helping her clients find coping strategies.
By Ruth Pearce
Happiness
Be More with Less
Learn how to plan experiences around strengths.
By Kelly Aluise
Happiness
Strengths + Passion = Happiness
Learn how your strengths and passion can create happiness.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Happiness
Research-Backed Strategies To Help You Flourish
Exercises to improve your well-being and boost happiness.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Happiness
Use Your Strengths to Boost Happiness
Learn how finding new ways to activate your strengths can improve your mood.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Strengths Basics
Want a Better Life? Research Says, Start Here
Start with Strengths focuses on amplifying the good in yourself, your life and those around you. With strategies like mindful strengths use, strengths spotting and using your strengths in new ways, you’ll discover effective ways to improve your health, happiness and relationships.
By Kelly Aluise
Happiness
A Personalized Approach to Well-Being
Use your signature strengths to find your path to greater well-being during a crisis.
By Dr. Jillian Coppley (Darwish), Mayerson Academy
Happiness
Laugh Your Way to Happiness
5 ways to use your humor strength to boost happiness.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Happiness
Learn How to Appreciate What You Already Have
A research-backed activity to focus on the good in your life.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Happiness
Accept Yourself and the Feelings You Feel
Learn how mindfulness can lead to greater self-acceptance and happiness.
By Melanie Greenberg, Ph.D.
Happiness
The 10 Most Popular Happiness Boosters
Fun ways to use your strengths to find happiness.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Parenting
My Father as a Kaleidoscope of Character Strengths
The character strengths that defined my father.
By Ruth Pearce
Happiness
Why NCAA Basketball is Good for You!
How to employ your strengths in March Madness.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Happiness
Use Your Strength of Creativity to Break Your Pouting Habit
Discover how using creativity can help eliminate sulking.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Happiness
5 Character Strengths People Want for Their Mental Health
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec
Achieving Goals
Bouncing Forward, not Bouncing Back: Adapting with Resilience (Part 1)
Gwendolyn Vansant discusses how your strengths can help you face and adapt to adversity.
By Gwendolyn VanSant
Happiness
10 Do's and Don'ts of Character Strengths for Mental Health
In this post, I focus on some of the Do’s and Don’ts of how our character strengths can help us tap into psychological well-being and optimally manage struggles.
By Dr. Ryan Niemiec

Products & Tools

Profile Reports

Total 24 Report

Explore all your character strengths to maximize engagement, relationships and well-being.
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Focus on your signature strengths to improve your life and thrive.

Books

Character Strengths Interventions: A Field Guide for Practitioners

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Research-Backed Strategies To Help You Flourish

Character strengths are the key pathways to the 5 areas of well-being. Learn how you can apply your strengths to flourish!

Workbooks

Panda Planner VIA

Panda Planner VIA is a daily planner that will train you to use and develop your character strengths to improve your life. This planner seamlessly weaves character strengths activities and prompts into monthly, weekly, and daily sections so you can align all of your tasks and goals with your strengths. Reduce stress, find better balance, and activate the qualities that help you perform at your best with this breakthrough positive psychology tool.

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Integrate character strengths strategies into your work and help others on their journeys of self-discovery and problem-solving. See our wide range of professional resources.

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