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13+ Resources & Quizzes To Assess Your Happiness Level

This article was written by Celine Sugay and originally appeared on positivepsychology.com on 4/13/2021. Happiness continues to gain more and more attention as topics such as well-being and mental health become more popular. Companies all over the globe have started investing in workshops and learning sessions to help their employees become happier. Despite its increasing popularity,...

Supporting Animal Welfare with the Charter for Happiness

Beth Allgood, Campaigns Director in the United States for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, was at GNHUSA's kick-off of the Charter for Happiness in Santa Fe, New Mexico in June, 2016. She published her insightful views on the connection between a GNH paradigm and animal well being at the IFAW website on June 10,...

A Reflection on Happiness and Well-being, from Vermont to the World

Recently I had the good fortune of being invited to participate in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) 6th World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy held in Incheon, South Korea. I was asked to present the case study of my little state of Vermont’s efforts to integrate components of well-being into policy...

CPA Cheryl Lopriore Appointed to GNHUSA Advisory Board

The GNHUSA Board is very pleased to announce that Cheryl D. Lopriore, CPA, has been appointed to the organization's Advisory Board. In this role, Cheryl will specialize in handling GNHUSA's financial needs and bookkeeping. As a self-employed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Cheryl is highly qualified for her new GNHUSA position. Her practice specializes in entity and individual taxation...

Live Happy Invites All to Join #HappyActs Celebration

Photograph by Brian Coats Help us make the world a happier place. Live Happy is thrilled to announce our fourth annual #HappyActs campaign! During the entire month of March, in honor of the United Nations’ International Day of Happiness, we will be sharing #HappyActs—small, simple actions you can perform to spread kindness, fun and joy in your...

"True Well-Being for Animals and People" Presentation by GNHUSA Board Member Beth Allgood

In mid-August, GNHUSA advisory board member Beth Allgood, who is also U.S. Country Director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), shared her ground-breaking research with a group of animal and GNH enthusiasts at a gathering in Montpelier, Vermont. Beth is one of the co-authors of a report entitled "Measuring What Matters: True Wellbeing for...

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Becoming a Happiness Walker, and Loving It!

Suzanne conducting a "what matters most" interview on the road in New Mexico. By Suzanne Ganzak Carnill After meeting Happiness Walker Paula Francis on my home turf in Florida in 2015, I was determined to join her on the Walk. My goal was September 2016 in New Mexico. But how to prepare? I have...

Measuring What Matters With Arlington Community Media

Arlington, Massachusetts TV producer Peter Bermudes began Episode 45 of his "Wide Angle" program on measuring what matters with this quote from Aristotle: “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” With that, Bermudes was off to a rousing discussion with GNHUSA president and co-founder Ginny...

The Happiness of Breaking Bread Together

A happy customer in line at the March 21 event in Cullowhee, NC, where two local nonprofits dedicated to feeding the hungry teamed up to serve a chef-prepared free meal to over 150 people. Although the first day of Spring (International Day of Happiness) seems far behind us now, reports and photographs...

World's First Happiness Museum to Open in London

Leave it to the wonderful folks at Positive.News to unearth this little gem: the world's first museum of happiness will be opening in London. Reporter Tom Lawson posted on June 9, 2017 that the museum will be happening thanks to crowdfunding, and that it will be dedicated to "the science, art and history of happiness." There is so...

Happiness Through Ubuntu

Today's guest writer is Grisha Rodchenko, a writer based in Wisconsin. A friend of mine once said, “giving is a selfish act.” She is 100% correct. Last July, when I bought several bottles of water for my fellow passengers waiting in the 93-degree heat for their connecting buses, that was indeed selfish, but the act was...

How Well Does A GDP Approach to Measuring Personal Happiness Work?

One way that people can better understand the limited utility of measuring societal success using only GDP-type results (i.e., money and material wealth) is to ask the same question regarding our personal lives. Does trying to live up to a GDP standard make us happier, less happy, or neither? That's essentially the question Greater Good Magazine reporter Jill...

The Divine in the Data

If you are reading this, it is likely you are one of the thousands of people I’ve met walking around the country or perhaps you have rooted for me from the sidelines. Some of you have generously opened your homes to me, a few of you have selflessly walked by my side, and many of...

While the election is over, IT'S not over

The election result is actually a reflection of a deep wound that exists now; a rift, that might have been partially healed, that is pulling apart once again. Just like a wound on your little finger, it's quite sensitive; and it's once again prone to infection and worse if it's allowed to fester. In this case, there...

Huge Gratitude to Linda Wheatley!

The visionary Linda Wheatley Tis the season for gratitude. From a GNHUSA perspective, no one deserves our thanks -- and the thanks of everyone involved in the Gross National Happiness movement -- more than Linda Wheatley. Linda, who resigned from the Gross National Happiness USA (GNHUSA) board in September, was the key force behind the...

A Message from the New President

By GNHUSA President Rob Moore When I was choosing between graduate programs five years ago, I recall having a phone conversation with a current graduate student at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. “So, do you ever talk about other measures of value at Berkeley? You know, besides dollars and cents?” I asked, perhaps naively. The current...

Let's Have More Conversations Like These

On a hot summer night, the beginning of a long Fourth of July weekend, a hardy group gathered in Princeton, NJ to discuss adopting GNH policies in the United States to better enable widespread pursuit of happiness....

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GNHUSA Advocates for Trustworthy Governance at March for Truth Rally

GNHUSA President Ginny Sassaman shares a unifying vision for trustworthy governance at the March for Truth rally in Montpelier, Vermont June 3, 2017. One of the great benefits of the way I experience grief is, my house gets cleaner. The news of the United Airways/Chicago police assault of an innocent passenger who...

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The Happiness Walk Heads East!

GNHUSA Board members Liz MacGahan and Ginny Sassaman join Paula Francis for the Walk in May, the last day of walking north. Starting in August 2012, the Happiness Walk has headed South, West, and North, arriving in Seattle in May 2018. Today, July 25, Paula Francis is back in Seattle where she...

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GNHUSA Delegation Will Join the World Happiness Summit

World Happiness Summit Yes, a GNHUSA delegation is headed for Miami, Florida in mid-March -- but don't expect us to spend a lot of time at the beach. Instead, Paula Francis, Brian Kaminer, and Ginny Sassaman plan to spend a lot of time indoors, at the historic World Happiness Summit, working hard to raise awareness of...

National Geographic: Visit the Top 10 Happiest Countries in the World

By Angie McPherson Looking for a travel destination with great views and friendly people? Try following a cue from the 2016 World Happiness Report. Every year the United Nations measures the quality of life for citizens around the world through surveys and data analysis. The same 13 countries have dominated the top of the list since the...

US Happiness Trends, Top 40 Radio and Sentiment Analysis

There I was, just sitting in my apartment, daydreaming about what the US will be like after we replace Gross Domestic Product with Genuine Progress Indicator as our primary way to measure economic progress and happiness. All of the sudden the next song on my oldies playlist comes on and I hear the great 20th...

GNHUSA Releases First North Carolina GPI Study

This morning, Gross National Happiness USA released a new report on North Carolina’s economic well-being as measured by the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), a comprehensive metric that accounts for environmental and social factors neglected by Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This study measures North Carolina’s economy from 2005 to 2018. Over these 14 years, North Carolina’s GPI...

Join the final steps of the 10,000 mile Happiness Walk in Boston - Nov. 2nd

Join Paula Francis and GNHUSA in person as the Happiness Walk concludes. The 10,000 mile Happiness Walk, a 7-year project of Gross National Happiness USA, will conclude in Boston, MA at 2pm on Saturday November 2nd, located in the Free Speech Area of the historic Boston Common. There are also 2 walking options for anyone that...

New Gross National Happiness Center in Thailand

While GNHUSA focuses most of our efforts here in the United States, we are very much part of an international movement. We were so pleased to read that Thailand has a newly established center for Gross National Happiness, as covered by by the National News Bureau of Thailand. On October 12, 2016, that bureau reported that...

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Dispatches from the Happiness Walk

Lead Happiness Walker Paula Francis recently sent her GNHUSA colleagues this colorful and upbeat dispatch from Arizona. We decided to share it with you! Dear folks: I just wanted to send an update now that I've been out for about a month. I'm writing one week out east of Phoenix in Overgaard, AZ sitting in a fire...

Across the Board … Positive Changes and Additions to GNHUSA Leadership Team

The past few months have seen a surge of activity for the Board of Directors of GNHUSA. We have expanded our board to include members from across the country, who offer a wide variety of skills and interests that we feel will serve to move the GNH mission forward. At our April Board meeting, we formally...

GNHUSA: The Expanded Road Trip!

Thanks to the intrepid members of the Happiness Walk, GNHUSA has been on and off the road since 2012 - over 4,000 miles worth, on foot! After a bit of a break, Paula Francis and other walkers will resume this amazing journey in mid-June, starting in Los Angeles and beginning the trek up the West...

Stop Fixating on Economic Growth -- Let's Talk About Quality of Life

On December 10, 2016, online news source Truthout published this very thoughtful essay by John de Graaf, the Director of Public Relations & Communications of the Happiness Alliance, on the need to move away from unrestrained capitalism toward a more cooperative way of life. Truthout has given GNHUSA permission to re-post John's article here. It's necessary to promote...

An Update on the Inaugural World Happiness Summit

On September 29, 2016, Live Happy published an interview with World Happiness Summit founder Luis Gallardo about the how's and why's of the upcoming event. An excerpt from the interview, by Donna Stokes, follows: "Join the party in Miami from March 17–19. The inaugural World Happiness Summit (WoHaSu) is on its way to Miami, March 17–19, just...

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