1. Findings From Research
What Brings
Happiness
Findings From Research

2. The Ability to Choose/ Freedom
Those who have Freedom and those who learn to use it wisely tend to be the happiest
People are awful at predicting what choices will make you happy so it takes some training and wisdom to see things better

3. Is seeing things in a certain way
Optimism
Is seeing things in a certain way
Attention
Interpretation
Memory

4. Meaningful Activity Happy spend their time doing meaningful
things often in the following categories
Serving and Helping others
Self Improvement and developing talents and skills
Family and Friends
Exercise

5. Happy People have a real sense of
Purpose

6. Extensive studies show that the more TV you watch the worse you feel.

7. Happy people have close friends and family, almost without exception
Strong Relationships
Happy people have close friends and family, almost without exception

8. College Alumni who preferred a high income and occupational success to having very close friends and a close marriage were twice as likely as their former classmates to describe themselves as “fairly” or “very” unhappy.

9. Activities that are Meaningful
Choices/Freedom
Optimism
Activities that are Meaningful
Relationships