We are pleased to invite you to a public consultation of the data used for the upcoming Sustainable Development Report 2025, which will be published in June 2025. The Sustainable Development Report is a global assessment of countries' progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a complement to the official SDG indicators and... Read more
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SDSN Youth opens the application period for its 2023 Local Pathways Fellowship
Young people play a vital role in achieving the SDGs. Be the next urban leader and apply for the Local Pathways Fellowship 2023 by February 1! The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network – Youth Initiative (SDSN Youth) announced the launch of the call for applications for the 2023 cohort of its Local Pathways Fellowship (LPF)... Read more
Finding a Happier and Less Stressful Way to Do Business by Chelsea Lamb
As an entrepreneur, you have a lot of spinning plates going all at once, and if any of them falls and breaks, it can end up sending them all crashing to the floor. No wonder you’re stressed! The problem with being stressed from keeping all those plates in the air is that the more stressed... Read more
Happier Way Influencer
Thaia McHugh - Happy Roots Coaching I'm Thaia McHugh, a spiritual mentor and coach helping individuals to throw out the old rule book to reclaim their magic and unleash the spiritual badass, within! What happens when you have a core foundation of Happy? You grow HAPPY ROOTS, that lead to a HAPPIER WAY! Which is... Read more
4 Best Practices For Building Happy And Productive Hybrid Work Teams by Cassie Cooper
After two years of remote work, many offices are transitioning to hybrid work setups in an effort to regain some normalcy. In fact, according to an ABC News report on new hybrid office spaces, up to 57% of newly constructed offices are being specifically designed with this setup in mind. Analysts say this reflects how necessary... Read more
Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
By Emma Seppälä and Kim Cameron Too many companies bet on having a cut-throat, high-pressure, take-no-prisoners culture to drive their financial success. But a large and growing body of research on positive organizational psychology demonstrates that not only is a cut-throat environment harmful to productivity over time, but that a positive environment will lead to... Read more
The Importance of Routine for Success: 3 Ways To Create Structure in Daily Life
While wondering what is the best path to maximising how we can use each day better to bring us one step closer to our goals, the one roadblock we often hit is of sticking to a routine. We can draw up elaborate plans, come up with time-bound achievable goals for each day but the fact... Read more
Building Focus for Meeting Goals
In the era of tik-tok and Instagram where every motion of your finger is a gateway to another world entirely, with vast multitudes of stimulus always available within an arm’s reach, focus is something that becomes very hard to build and retain. In fact, studies have actually shown that notifications are one of the biggest... Read more
Giving and Receiving: A Healthy Balance
What’s Wrong With Just Being a Giver? Have you ever felt taken for granted? Ever experienced resentment towards someone that you actually love doing nice things for but they don't ever seem to reciprocate? If yes (and there are numerous more examples of the particular feeling we’re talking about), then perhaps you’re struggling with achieving... Read more
Youth Progress Index 2021
Measuring young people's quality of life globally! The Youth Progress Index is one of the first instruments developed to give the full story of what life is like for a young person today, independent of economic indicators. It brings together reliable, relevant data to give each country a score on how well different countries meet Basic... Read more
Setting Realistic Goals
Social media and its larger-than-life representations of what everyone is up to have significantly influenced the way we want to set goals. For instance, when we consume so many intimate, personal stories of unexpected success such as owning a house by the age of 25, having a 6 figure starting salary, or when we watch... Read more
Practicing the Art of Kindness
Simply getting on with our lives, no matter how rewarding and meaningful, cannot produce the sense of fulfillment and pure joy that kindness and acts of giving back into the world that nurtures and nourishes us can! Think of moments like when your friend likes the birthday present you spent weeks choosing for her, or... Read more
Doing Boundaries: Healthy Boundaries for Healthy Relationships
Ever since the pandemic hit, the importance of boundaries in everyday life has become more prominent than ever before. Think about how confusing it was for one household to turn into an office space, a classroom, a place for rest and relaxation while simultaneously becoming a gym, a restaurant, a boardroom, and a bedroom. What... Read more
The Three Benefits of Regular Journaling
Happier Way Original - It can seem a bit strange at first to pick up a blank notebook with the expectation that you are going to write down some meaningful thoughts, find some deeper insights within mundane documentation and emerge a more enriched person at the end of your first journal entry. Perhaps it is... Read more
Is Multitasking Possible?
Happier Way Original - In the times that we live in, there has been a glorification of multitasking, and putting our precious time to the best possible use has become a desirable way of life! Multitasking is indeed a lifestyle that has become a proclaimed mantra of success for many, focusing on getting multiple tasks... Read more
4 Key Lessons of Strong Leadership, From Proven Leaders
Happier Way Original - Early in careers, as employees try to gain their footing within a company, they strive for excellence as a team member or individual contributor. Eventually, though, as they grow in their careers, individual contributors seek the next step of the professional journey. This next step is typically the one that thrusts... Read more
You might be wrong about social support
People are hard-wired to reach out to others with shows of kindness and support. For as natural as this urge is, it is surprising how often we get it wrong.Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on linkedin In this post IntroductionAre you a good match?What about when things go right?Conclusion Introduction I am a happiness researcher... Read more
15+ Statistics You Need To Know About Home Office Ergonomics
In June 2020, Stanford University Economist Nicholas Bloom said that 42% of working people in the US worked from home full-time. A study by Pew Research Center concluded that while 20% of people worked from home before the Covid-19 pandemic, by December 2020, that number has risen to 71%. The Pew Research Center also reports that out of the... Read more
The sustainable development goals – Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
From https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4
9 Tips for More Sustainable Living
Happier Way Original - It is no secret that our previous consumption as well as production habits have impacted our environment. The extravagant use of environmental resources coupled with the increasing global population resulted in unsustainable practices. There was a rise of throw away and cowboy economies. We developed at the cost of nature and... Read more