“A course in happiness, meaning, motivation, and well-being” offers tools to assess one’s well-being, and approaches to live a happier, purpose-driven and flourishing life. A course in happiness, meaning, motivation, and well-being” is different from other well-being books, because it offers a framework which is, at the same time, coherent enough to be easily remembered and implemented, and also flexible enough to be applied in different context and aspects of life. When it comes to research about happiness and meaning, there is a balance to reach between making the topic accessible, and keeping the information accurate. Two ways wer decided to address this opportunity are using the acronym AmAre to explain what facilitate joyful living, plus to speak in terms of degrees of happiness-facilitation when it comes to external factors.