2. Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and
end of human
existence.
– Aristotle

3. By 2030, it will be the largest cause of human suffering worldwide.
The World Health Organization Predicts :
By 2020 depression will be the second largest cause of human suffering.
By 2030, it will be the largest cause of human suffering worldwide.
- The World Health Organization

4. About 20 percent of teens will experience teen depression before they reach adulthood.
Each day, there are approximately 12 youth suicides. Every 2 hours and 11 minutes, a person under the age of 25 commits suicide.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP)
 Facts At A Glance, Summer 2007

5. A New Well-Being Paradigm

6. What We Need : Individuals & Society
To fix the outside, we absolutely MUST address the inner life too.

7. ACTIVATE YOUR HAPPINESS!
Happiness Leads to Success
Your brain at positive is
31% more productive
than at NEGATIVE, NEUTRAL or STRESSED .
ACTIVATE
YOUR
HAPPINESS!
Shawn Anchor, Harvard

8. 10%
- Sonja Lyubomirsky: The How of Happiness

9. Breathe

10. What are Your Top 3 Strengths?
It’s satisfying to draw on your strengths. How can you use them more in your day to day life?

11. Finding your Happiness Triggers
Track Your Happiness:
Finding your Happiness Triggers
Under Age 10
Age 10-15
Age 15-20
Age 20-25
Over Age 25

12. My Monkey Mind Mind Reading Control Myth Personalization
Catastrophizing
Emotional Reasoning
Critic Voice
Blaming

13. NEWS FLASH: You CAN change your mind!
NEUROPLASTICITY - the lifelong ability of the brain to reorganize neural pathways based on new experiences.
We are NOT born with a fixed number of brain cells.
The average adult grows 5,000 new brain cells a day.
Practice a couple minutes/day changing your thoughts = POSITIVE CHANGE!
Source: Interview with Richard Davidson, Seattle, Washington, April 13th, 2008.

14. What is Your Mindset? Fixed Mindset G 1 2 3 FIXED MINDSET
My potential is
determined at birth.
GROWTH MINDSET
A person’s true potential
is unknown.
“I’m a failure” (identity)
“I failed” (action)
Avoid challenges.
Persists in the face of setbacks.
Why bother? It’s not going to change anything.
Growth and learning require effort.
Feel threatened by the success of others. If you succeed, then I fail.
Finds lessons & inspiration in other people’s success.
Fixed Mindset 1 2 3 G
Don’t reach full potential
Reach even higher levels of achievement
Adapted from: Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: the new Psychology of Success. Ballantine Books (2008).

15. Tracking YOUR Mindset?
Think of a recent challenge you faced either personally or professionally.
What mindset did you have
(fixed or growth)?
How did this mindset affect your experience of happiness?

16. Practicing Happiness Active Practices (Zumba)
Creative Practices (Drawing)
Quiet Practices (Meditation)
Wellness Practices (Sleep)
Relationship Practices (Volunteering)

17. Well-Being Practice: 1. Note the positive
Every day for a week…
1. Note the positive
2. Express gratitude regularly
3. Compliment & Connect
4. Reflect on your positive changes
-Giovanni Fava of Univ. of Bologna, Italy

18. Deepening Gratitude What INSPIRED me today? What CHALLENGED me today?
What SURPRISED me today?
What touched my HEART?

19. Happiness IS Contagious!!!
Your happiness has 3 degrees of influence!
Happy Guy!!
25%
increase
10%
increase
Source: Dr. James Fowler, UC San Diego,
Dr. Nicholas Chistakis, Harvard University.
5.6%
increase

20. “Don’t ask what the world needs
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have
come alive.”
Howard Thurman

21. www.projecthappiness.org For Added Resources
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