|
|
|
|
Happiness
|
The happiest people surround themselves with family and friends, don't care about keeping up with the Joneses next door, lose themselves in daily activities and, most important, forgive easily. The happiest people spend the least time alone. They pursue personal growth and intimacy; they judge themselves by their own yardsticks, never against what others do or have. "Materialism is toxic for happiness."
|
|
Martin Seligman's "How To Be Happy" website.
|
|
Some say success brings happiness, and others say it doesn't.
In reality happiness buys success.
Chronically happy people are in general more successful in their personal and professional lives.
|
|
Invoke the old cliche as you wish, but for disabled people, money seems to buy a measure of happiness. For others, well, the price hasn't changed.
"Happiness and well-being may not depend on a person's financial state in times of health, but when that health fails, as it will eventually for most of us, money matters."
Participants were classified as disabled if they became unable to carry out routine tasks -- such as walking, getting out of bed, eating and dressing -- without help.
Participants whose financial assets were above the median before they were disabled reported, afterward, a smaller drop in well being.
|
|
Earlier this year, Denmark came top in a world map of happiness (the UK ranked 41st out of 178 nations). And for more than 30 years it has ranked first in European satisfaction surveys. So what makes Danes so content? Their hypotheses range from the unlikely (hair colour, genes, food and language) to the more plausible, such as family life, health and a prosperous economy.
However, their analysis points to two explanatory factors. Firstly, winning the 1992 European Football Championship put Danes in such a state of euphoria that the country has not been the same since. This may explain the high level of life satisfaction in Denmark after 1992, they write.
Secondly...
|
|
How does it feel to be in "the flow"?
1. Completely involved, focused, concentrating.
2. Sense of ecstasy.
3. Great inner clarity.
4. Knowing the activity is doable.
5. Sense of serenity.
6. Timeliness.
7. Intrinsic motivation.
|
|
|
|
