It’s not too late to bring greater happiness into your day-to-day living.

Daily life is filled with ups and downs, wins and losses, feeling good and feeling not-so-good. Yet, according to experts, even amidst the strains of each day, happiness is a choice.

Abundant research by psychologists has discovered that there are simple activities that can increase happiness. Many of them are easy, inexpensive, and easily practiced and learned (Nelson, Kurtz, & Lyubomirsky, 2015).

This sounds so simple, and yet for many of us, experiencing happiness sometimes feels elusive. The road to greater happiness is just not that obvious to many of us, especially in challenging times. That’s why it can be helpful to think in terms of moments of happiness—learning to find contentment and pleasure in briefer moments of happiness. A moment of joy here, a moment of laughter or pleasure there, a moment of self-kindness, a moment of meaningful conversation, etc.

Around the beginning of the 21st century, psychological researchers began a more intensive focus on the keys to happiness and what practices support what is often called subjective well-being (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000).

What psychologists continue to discover may surprise you. You may think that happiness is mostly available to other........

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