The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky is a book about the science of happiness and practical ways to improve your everyday happiness. This book discusses several empirically supported ways to improve happiness that are easy to integrate into your everyday life. My blog post discusses three strategies from the book that I implemented to try to decrease the stress and anxiety that I experience and improve my overall happiness. Emotion-focused coping, problem-focused coping, and expressing gratitude are all strategies from the book that really worked for me. I practiced emotion-focused coping by going to the gym. I practiced problem-focused coping by making study guides for exams, and I practiced expressing gratitude through a weekly gratitude journal. Happiness is a choice and I chose to practice these strategies to improve my happiness.
Big Yan’s Weekly Blog
This blog post is a final product of everything that I have learned throughout the semester as well as in the book that I read. This has helped me so much in my college life,
especially as a first year freshman. I have felt so much more comfortable even though the workload and responsibilities have increased
Managing Your Procrastination
The purpose of this project was to decrease my procrastination by improving my time management skills and increase productivity. This book helped give me many ways to improve all three while keeping me engaged. Many little activities helped me understand my priorities and what’s keeping me from starting my work, keeping me from staying on task, and why I’m not able to focus. This book helped me immensely improve my study habits.
Depression vs. Productivity
My project is about how depression and other mental health issues decrease productivity and overall student performance. From Neil Paricha’s The Happiness Equation, we can learn different methods that, in addition to professional help, can help students increase their productivity and, in extension, their grades. Through socializing, I began to go to the library more which allowed me to study more. Being around other people also made me feel significantly less lonely.