AUTHOR

Hugo Huijer

I'm the founder of Tracking Happiness, which I started in an effort to find like-minded people from all over the world. The goal of Tracking Happiness is to help you better manage your mental health. I started by writing about tracking your happiness in a journal, but the content quickly grew into many other topics.

I interviewed over 100 people about mental health struggles, in an effort to destigmatize mental health issues. Together with my team, I try to turn these stories into actionable insights, lessons and tips to better help those who are struggling with similar challenges.

I'm from the Netherlands, love skateboarding, ran 5 marathons, with one of them in under 4 hours (3:59:58 to be exact). I consider myself to be a data junkie and have tracked my happiness for over 10 years!

You can read more about my backstory here.


Tracking Happiness editorial guidelines

Our team is committed to bringing you mental health information that you can fully trust. We want you to feel confident that Tracking Happiness provides unbiased, trustworthy, and accurate information about your mental health, which is why we’re so committed to our editorial process. This means that we don't depend on any AI tool to create our content. Unlike other publishers, we steer away from using automatically generated text, to protect you and ourselves from misinformation and unactionable content.

Finally, we try to include real examples and stories from our community. Mental health advice can often seem unactionable and ambiguous. We always aim to give you actual steps to help you incorporate best practices into your life.

Read more about our processes here.

All articles of Hugo

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Blog, Misc

The Key To Happiness: How To Find Yours + Examples

The universal key to happiness is non-existent because happiness is one of the most difficult things in life to define. That’s why I’ve asked others what their key to happiness is as examples. After reading this, you should have a clear idea of what you can do to find your key to happiness.

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Blog, Misc

Tracking Happiness’ 2 Year Anniversary

Celebration time! Tracking Happiness is 2 years old. To honor this beautiful milestone, I wanted to quickly look back at how far this website has come since the 1st of April 2017, when I launched it. This post is about the story of how Tracking Happiness continues to grow into something bigger!

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Blog, Personal Growth

I Am Not Happy With My Life – 11 Actionable Remedies

This post walks you through the steps you can take right away in order to start finding happiness again. This article will not contain advice such as “just cheer up”. Instead, this post focuses on advice that you can implement in your life right now, in order to start building towards a happier future.

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Blog, Misc

Daylio Review – What You Can Learn From Tracking Your Mood

I’m reviewing Daylio, the best mood tracking app that is currently available for download on your smartphone. And that’s quite a thing to say for someone who has tracked his happiness for over 5 years! You can read about all the things that Daylio does really well here in this review.

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Blog, Misc

Examples of a Positive Mental Attitude and Why You Need It

Here’s a concept that will help you be happy despite the growing issues in this world: a Positive Mental Attitude. Our happiness is determined for a big part by our own decisions. We can control how we decide to react to things, which is something you can train based on these examples. This post shows you how to utilize your Positive Mental Attitude!