Target Your Happy

It's Week 29 of her 52-Week Happiness Experiment, and this week Stephanie is exploring Growth Mindset, a concept developed by psychologist Carol Dweck, and asking whether changing what we believe we're capable of can help us grow and feel happier at work.

She's putting it to the test by challenging one of her own long-held beliefs: that she's rubbish at selling!

Stephanie explores the difference between a fixed and growth mindset, the power of replacing “I can't do this” with “I can learn this”, and a simple three-step experiment to help you challenge your own limiting beliefs.

Because just because we're not good at something now doesn't mean we can't learn to get better at it.

52 weeks. 52 experiments. Let's find out what actually makes us happier.

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It's Week 28 of the 52-Week Happiness Experiment, and this week Stephanie's exploring whether being more intentional about the connections we make during our working days can help us feel happier at work.

Whether you're surrounded by colleagues, working from home or running your own business, it's surprisingly easy to go through a working day without feeling particularly connected to anyone.

This week, she's exploring the idea of High-Quality Connections and putting it to the test by making one meaningful connection each working day.

Can a few small moments of genuine connection make our working days feel happier, more energising and a little less lonely?

Let's find out!

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It's week 27 of Stephanie's 52-week Happiness Experiment and this week she's exploring whether changing the way we organise our workload and manage our focus can help us feel more productive and, importantly, happier at work.

She's testing two popular productivity techniques: Personal Kanban, which helps us visualise and manage our tasks, and the Pomodoro Technique, which uses short bursts of focused work followed by regular breaks.

But this experiment isn't just about getting more done. It's about discovering whether working more effectively can help us feel more organised, focused and in control, while making our working days a little more enjoyable.

Can better productivity lead to a happier working life? Let's find out!

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It's week 26 of Stephanie's 52-week Happiness Experiment and this week she is testing The Progress Principle, based on research by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, which explores how making progress in meaningful work can positively influence our emotions, motivation and experience of work.

For one working week, she's deliberately taking small steps forward on things that matter and swapping her to-do list for a To-Done List, recognising what she's achieved rather than focusing on everything still left to do.

Because sometimes we're so busy thinking about what we haven't done that we forget to appreciate how far we've already come.

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It's week 25 and Stephanie is kicking off Chapter 3 of her 52-week Happiness Experiment, Building a Happier Working Life, by testing Job Crafting.

Based on research by organisational psychologists Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane Dutton, Job Crafting explores how making small changes to what we do, who we interact with and how we think about our work can improve our experience of it.

For one working week, Stephanie is making one small change each day to see whether it helps her enjoy her working life more.

Because changing jobs isn't always possible (or necessary!), but perhaps we have more influence over our working lives than we realise.

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This week, Stephanie is wrapping up the second chapter of her 52-week Happiness Experiment by looking back at the tools she’s tested so far and asking a different question: If I don’t have time to try everything, how can I target the kind of happiness I want more of?

Because we don’t need to do every happiness exercise, every day, to build happier lives.

Instead, Stephanie is creating a Happiness Toolkit, matching simple experiments to what we might want more of, whether that’s joy, connection, confidence, fun, courage or self-compassion.

If you wanted to appreciate the good moments more, what could you try? What about feeling more connected, adding more fun or going after something that matters to you?

This week is about finding the tools that work for you and remembering that life doesn’t have to be bad to want to make it happier 🩷

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It's week 23 of Stephanie's 52-Week Happiness Experiment and this week she's testing Courage and exploring whether doing things that scare us because they matter could help us become happier.

Courage isn’t about being fearless. It’s about choosing to act towards something worthwhile even when fear, risk or uncertainty comes along for the ride.

So for seven days, Stephanie is doing one brave thing each day, choosing something that matters to her that fear or discomfort might otherwise stop her from doing.

Can being willing to feel the fear and do the thing open up more of the experiences, opportunities and choices that contribute to a happier life?

There’s only one way to find out.

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This week, Stephanie is testing Hope Theory, developed by psychologist Rick Snyder, and exploring the idea that hope isn’t simply about believing things will work out, but being able to find different ways forward when we hit an obstacle.

For seven days, whenever she catches herself thinking “I can’t…”, she’s asking “Is there another way?” and then actually trying it.

Can finding and trying another way forward help us feel more hopeful and happier?

Because maybe “I can’t” doesn’t always mean I can’t. Sometimes it just means I haven’t found the rightway yet.

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It’s week 21 of Stephanie’s 52-Week Happiness Experiment and this week she’s testing Self-Efficacy.

Confidence isn’t always something we have before we act. Often, it’s built by doing things and seeing the evidence of what we’re capable of.

So this week, Stephanie is testing a simple exercise called Three Small Wins, taking time each day to notice what she’s done, handled or achieved.

Join Stephanie as she explores whether recognising our everyday achievements can help us feel more confident, capable and ultimately, happier.

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It’s week 20 of Stephanie’s 52-Week Happiness Experiment and this week Stephanie is testing Energy Management.

We spend so much time thinking about how we manage our time, but what about how we manage our energy?

So this week, Stephanie is paying attention to the everyday things that raise her energy, drain it, or have no real effect at all.

Join Stephanie as she explores whether understanding what gives us energy and what takes it away could help us create days that feel happier.

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Download the ‘My Energy Audit’ exercise ⁠here

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