I just realised I’d said to leave your comments below the link to the Happiness Report, but there wasn’t a place to leave them. So I’m setting this up for any questions or comments.
In case you haven’t yet read it, here’s the Happiness Report. [Read more →]
All week I’ve been working furiously to finish the Happiness 2.0 report. The trouble is that I’m a terrible editor. I start to read through it to make sure it makes sense and I just keep finding more to add to it. So late last night I said enough is enough and I’ve banned myself from adding in anything new to it.
I just need to leave it a couple of days to detach a little from it so I can read through it again and check it makes some sense. I’m hoping it will be ready for you for Monday. But in the meantime I have an idea for a mini project that I think will benefit you greatly.
I’ve given a lot of thought to this report. Not just the writing of it, but the way to deliver it, so it has most impact on you. You see, I think I know what’s going to happen to a lot of people who read it;
I know that for a few these insights will change their way of thinking and so their lives. And so I want to do as much as I can to make a bigger impact on you. And the biggest part of how this impacts you doesn’t come from my writing, but from how involved you are in actively reading it.
So, I have come up with a way that you can get your brain ready to make best use of this report. And I think it could be a really interesting project for us to do for a lot of reasons. I’ve set up a short, anonymous survey asking you a few questions to get you thinking.
The idea is that this will set your views on the subject and then when you get the report you’ll already have an opinion and so you’ll be more discerning.
Plus then I’ll publish the aggregated results. It’s an anonymous survey and so I won’t see your individual answers, just the total figures. Then we’ll have some information to work on more practical steps to really make it sink in. I think this could be very valuable to us and so I hope you get involved today or over the weekend.
You’ll find the form here;
http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pneWRKNL9dICXMsJ9MRa_VA&email=true
Is the love of money, truly the root of all evil? [Read more →]
This is Part 3 of a 3 part series. (Part 1 – More Doesn’t Lead To Happier, Part 2 – Happiness And Political Correctness)
When I was young and we were going on holiday my Dad would put our suitcases etc on the roof rack. And he would strap them down securely with those elasticated clips that catch on the sides. Since he was worried that the bundles might fall, he would strap lots around them. We would always joke about how many he was using. [Read more →]
Happiness And Political Correctness – Part 2 in a short series (Part 1 – More, doesn’t lead to happier)
One reason more doesn’t make us happier, is the habituation factor. We get used to whatever level we’re at It’s like a set point on a thermostat. It’s the zone where we feel comfortable. [Read more →]