The Joy Meter™ is designed to assist you in identifying the activities, tasks, or experiences that fill you with the most joy, guiding your decisions. It quantifies joy across three phases: before, during, and after the task, offering a comprehensive insight into the sources of your happiness. Each phase is scored, culminating in an overall joy rating for each activity, task, or experience.

To utilize the Joy Meter™ (below), select an activity, task, or experience and record it in the initial column of the Joy Meter™. Then, observe and evaluate your feelings at the three different stages of the activity. Assign a score of 1 if you feel depleted, 5 if you feel profoundly joyful, or any number between 1 and 5 that best reflects your level of joy. After entering your scores, the Joy Meter will compute your cumulative joy score to help you decide where to put your energy moving forward.