Last year I shared my 100 Things That Make Me Happy list which I wrote back in August 2014. It was one of my most visited posts in 2018. We are now 4.5 years on from that original list so I thought I’d set myself the challenge of coming up with 100 More Things That Make Me Happy!
I’ve also written some tips and suggestions for writing your own Happy List which you can read here. And I’ve also released a whole workbook full of journalling prompts for happiness. It’s called Find Your Happy and you can read more about it here.
Here goes…

100 More Things That Make Me Happy
- Yoga
- When Benji makes an appearance in Adriene’s yoga videos
- Running Memoirs – strange but true
- My bureau that I re-finished with some help from my Dad and my husband
- My little hidey-hole tucked behind the lounge door where my bureau sits
- Sending letters to penpals
- Receiving letters from penpals
- The Goodreads app – for keeping track of books I’ve read
- The hashtag BringBackPaper on Instagram – books, stationery and loveliness
- Finishing up a Morning Pages Journal (knowing that getting the words out have helped me)
- And starting up a new one
- Walking beside the local river
- Walking in the local woods
- Making friends with dogs I meet
- My rainbow and unicorn collection
- Amazon Prime (next day delivery – where would I be without you?!)
- Being able to reserve books from the library for FREE
- The glass doors on my bookshelves to keep the dust off my books
- Sitting and letting the sunbeams warm my face (especially in the colder Winter months)
- Listening to my son’s conversations with his grandparents
- Clubbercise
- That I completed C25K
- The dragonfly door knocker for our new front door
- The Organised Mum Method for getting the house clean
- Roast Chicken in the slow cooker
- Bacon sandwiches
- Still keeping a gratitude journal
- Wax seals
- Using my Find the Good Everyday stationery
- Reading Harry Potter with my son
- Playing board games with the family (although Monopoly tends to get tense!)
- The smell of oranges and satsumas when I peel them
- How clean my face feels when I double cleanse
- Finishing a product up
- The excitement of opening a new one
- The little pebbles, feathers and nature’s treasures my son finds for me
- Ticking everything off for the day in my Bullet Journal
- Having twinkly (fairy) lights up outside of the festive season
- Putting a new ink cartridge in my fountain pen
- Listening to my fountain pen scratch softly on the page as I write
- Stepping on my freshly mown lawn barefoot
- Milkshakes with bacon in them! (Five Guys – who knew?!)
- Being able to walk into town without worrying about where to park
- A sunny Winter’s day
- Building dens and forts
- When my son tells me I make the best dens & forts
- Watching my house plants grow
- Feeling ‘adulty’ enough to keep my house plants alive
- Scones with clotted cream and jam (jam first!)
- Ploughman’s Lunches
- Delicious home cooked meals packed with vegetables
- My navy sweatshirt decorated with rose gold sausage dogs
- My Harry Potter purse which everyone comments on
- Crunchy sweet apples (Jazz are my favourite)
- My rainbow sun-catchers
- Central heating on cold days
- Ditto double glazed windows
- My squirty mop for quickly cleaning the floors
- And my cordless vacuum for whizzing round
- My “Katie” spotify playlist
- Big doggy sighs
- When my son holds my hand (a rare occurrence these days)
- Making things with clay
- Using the things I’ve made with clay around the house
- Watching my son’s confidence grow in reading
- And other things he’s been working hard at
- When my junk drawers are organised and I can find what I’m looking for
- Sending and receiving cards for Christmas and birthdays
- Spotting a robin as I go about my day
- Stopping to listen to the birds singing
- Curling up to watch an episode of Call the Midwife
- The Great British Bake-Off
- The Loch Ness Monster postcard I keep in the kitchen which says “The most important thing is that I believe in myself”
- Finding a quote I resonate with
- When my Instagram feed is full of inspiration and motivation
- Finding a blog or instagram account that inspires me
- When I hit publish on a blog post
- When someone signs up for my newsletter or blog posts by email
- Family holidays in the sunshine with my boys
- Being able to pop over to my Mum’s for a visit
- Having an empty laundry basket (because I’m all caught up!)
- The joy of a weekend with no plans
- Getting crafty with my boy – we are both enjoying painting with watercolours lately
- Clearing out my email inbox (another rare occurrence)
- My Sentence a day journal that I’ve used on-and-off since 2015
- The glow from my salt lamp
- Dancing in the kitchen
- Looking back at my scrapbooks and photo albums
- Being able to see the stars on a clear night (less likely here than in NZ)
- When birds visit our garden bird table
- “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” Yoga move (featured in this short practice)
- My Blowfish black boots
- My Saltwater Sandals
- Lunch dates with my husband
- Yellow flowers (e.g. sunflowers, daffodils and tete a tete)
- Overcoming my weird fear of running out and USING stationery items!
- Planning adventures with friends
- Learning snippets of the language of countries I visit
- How much I still enjoy blogging
- Sharing Stories
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Wow I did it – 100 More Things That Make Me Happy! This list has come together over a couple of weeks…I kept coming back to it at different times of the days which helped come up with new items to add.
If you haven’t already – please come up with your own list! It doesn’t have to be 100…start with just 20 things and add to it. These lists in themselves make me happy. It’s great to have the reminder of what I can do to make myself happy.
Check out some tips and suggestions for writing your own Happy list here.
Printables
I’ve created a couple PDF printables for creating your own list. If you’d like a copy drop me an email (via the Contact form) and I’ll happily send them through to you!
Find Your Happy Journalling Workbook
If you want help with creating your own Happy List as well as some other ideas for journalling to make you happy – check out Find Your Happy. It’s full of 10-minute journalling prompts to help you find more joy in your everyday life. You can buy a copy here.
