Happiness: Practical Secrets to Being Happy (Udemy.com)
Happiness - practical guide to being happy in your career, personal life and every day.
Created by: Chris Croft
Last updated May 2025
What you will learn
- Practical tools and techniques for increasing happiness
- Become happier at work and at home
- Take back control of your life
- Stop letting your brain give you bad advice
- Discover how to use meditation and mindfulness to increase your happiness
- Find it easy to build rewarding relationships with others
- Learn how to see things in a more positive light - even chores!
- Unlock a happy balance between life achievement and enjoyment
- Become happy and fulfilled in your work life
- Overcome guilt and allow yourself to be happy
How it compares
Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 34% of them
- Reviews447#421 of 1,108 by number of reviews
- Length3 hourslonger than 57% of them
- Last updatedMay 2025more recently than 50% of them
Course Description
Happiness: Practical Secrets to Being Happy
Happiness - a practical guide to being happy in your career, personal life, and every day.
Rather than happiness being a fleeting emotion, you have the power to consistently access it. With the right mindset and a set of practical, science-backed tools, you can build a career and life that feel both meaningful and energizing.
If your professional life feels off-track — if you find yourself dreading Mondays, feeling overwhelmed by meetings, or questioning whether your work truly matters — this course is designed to help you take back control and rediscover a sense of purpose and satisfaction.
This course gives you proven tools and techniques to bring more happiness into your daily routine, with a strong focus on professional success and workplace wellbeing. From exploring the science of mindset and motivation, to improving your communication and finding fulfillment in your career, you’ll gain skills you can apply immediately. And most of the strategies are completely free.
This course is broken down into five sections:
Understanding Happiness – identifying your personality type, how money affects happiness, balancing enjoyment and achievement, and exploring how different career choices influence fulfillment and engagement
Your Brain – the science and philosophy behind your mind, how to use mindfulness and meditation effectively at work, the impact of early experiences and habits, and how clarity and focus can reshape your thinking
Happiness in Relationships – how to create more positive and productive interactions with coworkers, clients, and leaders, while also deepening personal connections
Activities for Happiness – practical, everyday techniques to improve your mood, boost your energy, and bring more optimism to your work and life
Happiness at Work – strategies to beat the Monday blues, handle difficult colleagues or a tough boss, stay motivated, and build a career path that aligns with your values and strengths
From professional relationships to how you manage time, money, and energy, you’ll learn how to navigate daily challenges in a way that supports your happiness and long-term success. You’ll also explore big-picture questions—like whether happiness is innate, how to find meaning in your career, and whether it’s selfish to prioritize your own wellbeing.
By the end of the course, you’ll have a better understanding of how your mind works, and the skills to improve your emotional state throughout your workday. In addition to practical methods like mindfulness, gratitude, and daily habits, you’ll also discover how traits like discipline, assertiveness, and thoughtful goal-setting can dramatically improve both your performance and your happiness.
Chris Croft is an international speaker and widely published author who’s coached thousands of professionals over the past 20 years. In the last five years, his focus has shifted toward practical happiness—and how it can transform workplace culture, personal lives, and career growth. Chris’s teaching style is energetic, clear, and refreshingly down-to-earth, making complex topics accessible and enjoyable.
The course overview includes:
Practical tools and techniques for feeling more fulfilled and energized at work
How to use mindfulness and meditation in a professional setting
Tools to help you regain control of your mindset and focus
How to choose a career path that aligns with your values and skills
Ways to build more positive relationships with colleagues, clients, and teams
How to reframe stressful tasks—even the small stuff
Simple daily changes that lead to more happiness and productivity
How to set boundaries and restore work-life balance
How to overcome guilt and give yourself permission to be happy
And as always, it’s 100% practical, with no fluff or technical jargon.
If you’re ready to make real, positive changes and bring more meaning and energy into your professional life, this course is for you.
Start building the career and life you actually want—and say goodbye to burnout, negativity, and workplace stress. This course WILL change your life… if you let it.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
447 Reviews
Chris Croft
Chris Croft is one of the UK's leading trainers and provides a wide variety of courses designed to involve, inspire and motivate people of all levels. To date Chris has trained some 87,000 people in person and millions online. His video courses are some of the most viewed in the world.
Chris has come from an Engineering background, with a masters degree from Cambridge University, qualifying as a Chartered Engineer, and working as a senior manager in manufacturing for 10 years. He gained an MBA and worked as a university lecturer for four years before starting his own training company 25 years ago.
Chris runs face to face courses in the UK, does zoom training for companies anywhere in the world, and makes video courses in his own studio. You can follow him on Linkedin and YouTube, and he has 18 books on Amazon.
Chris is passionate about practical and fun education with courses that are memorable, entertaining and immediately actionable.
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Reviews
By Paramjit Bakhshi on 6/12/2026
LOVE THE WAY YOU SMILE AND LAUGH AND TEACH. YOU LOOK HAPPY SO THE TALK IS MORE REAL..SO MANY TEACHERS ARE SO SERIOUS SO I WONDER WHAT CAN THEY TEACH ME ABOUT HAPPINESS. THE ONLY PROBLEM WITH YOUR COURSE IS THAT THERE IS TOO MUCH MATERIAL..I WOULD CUT DOWN ON SOME OF THE MATERIAL AND PUT IN A FEW JOKES/ANECDOTES TO GET SOME LAUGHTER FROM THE AUDIENCE. BUT OVERALL YOU ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS.. MUCH BETTER..THANKS.
By Helen Chan on 6/11/2026
Good pointers to keep positive.
By Fiona Krummenacher on 4/30/2026
Great course, lots of helpful insights! Personally I would've loved some more scientific facts and figures (event though he already mentioned some), but otherwise great.
By Sarah Windisch on 4/23/2026
very interesting, some funny, some insightful information. I have learned over many years that sometimes it really is the simple things in life that make me happy. Best thing? Go ride a roller coaster and scream like a kid!
By Afifah binti Adnan on 3/23/2026
This module teach how to see things in a more positive light and more knowledge/tools on how to increase happiness
By Sandra Phillips on 11/26/2025
Thank you Chris for a very interesting and thought provoking course. If I may say, I don't think the last 15 minute nano tips course was necessary as most tips were covered in the full course. The original course ended perfectly. But thank you again.
By A D on 3/30/2025
Excellent, highly motivating, very positive and thought provoking course that is full of practical suggestions on how you can easily take various simple actions which will improve your work and home life and improve your overall happiness
By Lisa Hornik on 10/2/2020
This is the second time I have watched this course, as a refresh. Most of the concepts are familiar as I have done quite a lot of reading on this topic. However, Chris is great at putting things very simply and giving examples. It has made me reassess my personal goals and also think about how to 'adjust' my job to get more satisfaction at work.
By Jon Clarke on 9/30/2020
I loved it. Thought before getting it that might not be for me. Yes, some stuff is just plain common sense, while other parts had some real detail that I had not considered, but it's a fun course the reinforces the need to find happiness in life. I really enjoyed this.
By Chris Taylor on 9/11/2020
Chris Croft is God. In some ways this was a refresher after a lifetime of trial & error on the personal and professional front and in many ways the techniques learnt on this invaluable course were desperately in need. Chris has an amazing capacity to get things across.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100












