Creating rotary happy street By Dr. Rekha Shetty

Happiness Secrets

To create a happy nation or a happy organization, we need to make Happiness a Culture. Government Corporate sector Schools.

To create a culture of happiness which embraces the 4 pillars of happiness. Environmental Sustainability Cultural Vitality Economic Development Governance

This journey is the search for knowledge, knowing how to create this happy town, city, or nation. Gross National Happiness

Working Together

Environment Sustainability ‘Treat the earth like a friend. Replace whatever you take from her, with love,’ Air and water purity Building and Land infrastructure, Noise and the potential effects Freedom Sufficiency Justice & Peace

Cultural Vitality Cultural vitality is defined as evidence of creating, disseminating, validating, and supporting arts and culture as a dimension of everyday life in communities. It belongs to us all—not just ‘the arts community’.

Four Dimensions of Cultural Vitality The level of participation in arts and cultural vitality The impact on communities and economies The support for arts and cultural activity Presence of opportunities for participation

Economic Development To measure how a country is doing you have to ask what is growing, not just how much it is growing. After all anything can make the economy grow: more sickness, more crime, pollution, natural disasters, war, resource depletion.

Money spent on experiences make people happier than buying things Money spent on experiences make people happier than buying things. The feeling of well being comes from being connected and loved by friends and the community.

‘Happy communities can happen only when people stop being selfish and start working together to solve everyone’s problems.’

Good Governance According to the UN, good governance has following characteristics: Participatory Following the rule of law Effective and efficient Accountable Transparent Responsive Equitable Inclusive

Implementation Our Rotarian adopts one street Creates a team of 5. A Rotarian chairman, with 4 others handling the 4 pillars of happiness. The street is tagged as a Rotary happy street A website documents all this and ensures sharing of information