Are you completely satisfied and happy with your life right now? If not, why not? If not now, when?

The goal of BetterAndHappier.com is to guide you to the point where you can say: “All the pieces of my life have fallen into place. Who I am and what I want has never been clearer and more exciting. I feel motivated and optimistic about my future and I am actively making progress toward achieving my goals and potential”

In The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bronnie Ware, a palliative care nurse, records the most common last epiphanies of patients who have found clarity and wisdom in the last weeks of their lives. The top five regrets of the dying are:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier. 

Our priorities in life are skewed. We waste precious time pursuing things that we are led to think will bring us happiness: a successful career, enough money, the perfect house, the perfect partner, the perfectly planned out life. We spend a lifetime focusing on the wrong things and we leave little time and energy for the things that are actually important- the things that increase our health and happiness, foster thoughtful, rewarding relationships, engage our passions and talents, and give our lives purpose and meaning. When we can think clearly about what is important to us and what will truly fulfil us, more happiness becomes available to us. We pay less attention to the unimportant things and we can appreciate and go after the important things. 

From my study of psychology, communication, and positive psychology, I have categorized the areas of our lives that we all need to satisfy in order to feel fulfilled and to thrive. I have organized the site according to these needs:

• Positivity: we need to have a positive appraisal of our experiences, and an open-minded attitude to gain from new experiences, and hope for the future.
• Self-worth and self-improvement: we need to accept and love ourselves and to be continuously developing, learning, growing, and improving or else we stagnate.
• Coping: we need to be able to recover from pain, grief, and loss and to manage stressors and sources of negativity.
• Relationships: we need meaningful connection with others; to love and be loved, and to feel important, needed, and wanted.
• Success: we need to be productive and to accomplish goals that reflect our strengths and interests and that benefit us both as we work toward the goals and once we achieve them.
• Health: we need a thriving mind and body in order to use healthy energy and to live with stability, safety, and comfort and avoid pain.
• Purpose: we need to contribute beyond ourselves, to feel that our lives have meaning and that we live for a purpose.
• Creativity: we need challenges that stimulate us and exercise our mental, emotional, and physical capacities.

BetterAndHappier.com contains information and clarity for achieving these needs in order to get you to that point where all the pieces come together; the point where who you are, what you do, what you want, what you love, what you’re good at, what fulfils you, and what allows you to grow and improve are all aligned.

The advice and techniques I provide on BetterAndHappier.com change your way of thinking and behaving to have a more enriching experience of a well-rounded life. I will show you how to:

• Figure out who you are and what you want out of life.
• Find your passions, strengths, values, and life purpose.
• Cultivate a positive, open-minded, appreciative, happy attitude toward life, yourself, and other people.
• Manage negativity, challenges, and stress.
• Develop close, meaningful, supportive relationships with family, friends, partners, and compassion and kindness for strangers.
• Take care of your health and revive your body, inside and out.
• Love and accept yourself and build your self-confidence and self-worth.
• Strive to always be learning, improving, and growing into a better, more grounded, and well-rounded person.
• Define personal and professional goals that engage your interests and strengths and that will allow you to thrive, both as you work toward the goals and once you achieve them.

And that’s one of the best parts of taking steps to improve your life and yourself: you begin benefiting from achieving your goal during the process of pursuing it, not just at the end when you’ve succeeded. Things start shifting and becoming clearer as soon as you make the decision to begin improving yourself and living the life that you want and deserve. The excitement and possibilities of this new beginning will motivate you like nothing you’ve felt before.

Nothing is more exciting and motivating than the start of the rest of your life- a life that you can fill with everything you enjoy and value. It’s up to you to define and achieve what you want from life—and up to me to guide you through every step of the way.

Start living a life you love.