TAA member Angelica Ribeiro, Ph.D. recently authored a new nonfiction book, How to Create Happiness at Work: Seven Evidence-Based Strategies to Enjoy Your Day (Kindle Direct Publishing, March 2024).

Based on scientific evidence and her own journey toward happiness in the workplace, Ribeiro shows how to create happiness at work, especially if we have experiences such as too much sitting, too little movement, too much time stuck in traffic, too little time building positive habits, too many tasks to do, too few hours of sleep, too much computer work, and too few social interactions.

Combining storytelling and science, Ribeiro shares how we can transform such experiences into happiness strategies, including making time to move, building positive habits during traffic, and creating social connections at work. By following these happiness strategies, it helps us increase our happiness even if we have a busy work life. Nobody is happy all the time. But consciously working toward happiness at work increases how often we feel joy and helps us feel happier a lot more than one-third of our lives.

The book has received endorsements from several experts on happiness:

“Many of us spend most of our waking hours at work. Angelica Ribeiro shares with us important tools, tips, and techniques so that we can flourish during those hours, be at our best and our happiest. Scientific, accessible, potentially life-changing!” – Tal Ben-Shahar, bestselling author of Happier

“How to Create Happiness at Work is extremely relevant, now more than ever. Angelica Ribeiro shares an evidence-based roadmap to greater well-being and connection at work in a way that is both practical and inspiring. This book has so much for the happiness seeker in each of us!” – Michelle Gielan, researcher and bestselling author of Broadcasting Happiness

“Happiness is a choice, and in this engaging and lively book, Angelica shows practical ways to achieve it, even in the midst of normal, everyday life. Read it and you’ll come away with ideas for making tomorrow better.” – Laura Vanderkam, author of Tranquility by Tuesday, co-host of Best of Both Worlds podcast, and host of Before Breakfast podcast.

Congratulations Angelica!