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

gratitude makes us happier featured

Blog, Gratitude

The Powerful Relationship Between Gratitude And Happiness (With Actual Examples)

Being grateful is scientifically correlated to a higher feeling of happiness. This article shows how being grateful for something can directly have a positive influence on your happiness. So even when you are not completely in control of all your emotions all the time, showing gratitude can at least help you steer your happiness in the best direction possible. That’s the most important takeaway here.

materialism and happiness quotes

Blog, Misc

66 Quotes About Materialism And Happiness

Materialism can potentially be a reason for why you are currently feeling anxious or unhappy. But you might not even know it yet. For that reason, I’ve collected inspiring quotes on materialism and happiness. These quotes will hopefully inspire you to rethink what happiness means to you.

kindness to animals quotes featured

Blog, Misc

29 Quotes About Kindness To Animals (Inspiring & Handpicked)

There’s a lot that we can learn from animals. Yet, humans are able to inflict lot of cruelty to animals. These quotes will help you see why we need to be more kind to animals. Animals are our friends, and we should all treat them as such. In this roundup, I’ve hand-picked 29 of the best quotes on being kind to animals.

happiness after sadness quotes featured

Blog, Misc

102 Quotes About Happiness After Sadness (Handpicked)

Happiness doesn’t exist without sadness. However, we sometimes need a little perspective on how to get from a place of sadness to a happier place. Quotes can be an inspiration for igniting change and looking at life differently. These quotes about happiness after sadness can hopefully inspire you to think more positively.