About Better Lifestyle Journey

Better Lifestyle Journey is a small independent publication about ordinary days: how you plan and focus, how you talk to the people you live and work with, how your home runs, how you rest. Not a total reinvention, not a 5 a.m. routine abandoned by Thursday. Small, specific changes that hold.

What you will find here

Articles. Each one takes a situation most people recognise, such as the Saturday lie-in that ruins Monday or the email avoided for three weeks, and does three things with it: describes it plainly, explains what published research says about why it happens, and ends with something concrete to try. The studies are linked where they are used and listed at the end of every article, so you can check them yourself. Our six topics are Productivity, Relationships, Home & Routines, Personal Growth, Work & Balance and Everyday Wellbeing.

Tools. Some advice is really arithmetic, so we built small planners that do it for you: a wake-time planner, a nap planner, a dinner rotation builder and a commitment check. They are free, need no account, and what you type stays in your browser.

Quizzes. Three kinds: research questionnaires in the public domain, scored the way they are published (the Big Five, six character strengths, your chronotype); myth-or-fact rounds where every answer comes with its source; and quick ones we wrote for fun, built on a research idea and labelled that way.

Your lab. Every story ends with a small experiment: a few steps and a number of days. Start one and it goes into your lab notebook, with a day counter, a daily tick and a note on how it went. The notebook lives in your browser only.

How we work

Every article starts from a question someone actually has. We look for what has been studied, read the research itself and not the headline about it, and say so when the evidence is thin or the study was small. We do not invent statistics, experts or quotes.

The scenes that open our articles are typical situations, written to be recognisable. They are not reports of real events or pages from anyone’s diary, and we do not present them as such.

When something is wrong, we fix it and date the change. Our editorial policy describes the full process: how articles are researched and written, including our use of AI tools, how images are chosen, and how the site is funded.

Who is behind it

Better Lifestyle Journey is run by Henri Relyveld, its owner and editor-in-chief, from Utrecht in the Netherlands. He is responsible for what the site publishes. Articles appear under the name of the editorial team rather than individual bylines, and our editorial policy explains how they are researched and written, including our use of AI tools.

We are not doctors, therapists, lawyers or financial advisers, and nothing here replaces one; where a topic needs a professional, we say so.

Questions, corrections or ideas: contact us.