Hi, I’m Joe!

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I am a freelance consultant in my late 20’s who has spent the last year travelling and living in different places around the world. I am incredibly lucky in many ways, but one particular thing I have always appreciated is that for most of my life I have been happy! As I say, I am a lucky person, but my life hasn’t been without its own difficulties, many of which I hope to share and explore in this blog. Friends have asked me periodically throughout my life why it is that things don’t seem to get me down and though I have had theories, I have never really been able to explain it.

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Despite this, in 2024 I became depressed for the first time in my adult life. This was a very gradual descent over about a year and a half which put strain on all aspects of my life: relationships, work, family and health. By the end of 2024, things had become bad enough that I knew I needed to make changes. This led to the end of a long term relationship, my corporate career and moving out the city I had lived in for the last 6 years. By the end of March 2025 I had changed it all.

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Now I am back to the happiest I have been in a long time, but found myself with a new interest. What actually made me happy again? Why is it that some people find it easier to be happy than others? Can happiness be learned, or at least be made easier through certain actions that you take?

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My aim with this blog is to both explore the scientific & psychological reasons that people are happy, whilst mixing in anecdotal experiences from my own life and the lives of others. I hope that in doing this I discover useful and actionable ways to make your life easier and happier!