Happiness Questions: Theme 1 week 1

• Do you agree with Aristotle that happiness is the “chief good” – that everything else we do in life are means to this end?

• Look at how you spend your time.  What “roads to happiness” are you already on?  What beliefs, activities, and habits do you have that routinely bring greater happiness and meaning into your life?  Don’t forget to consider activities that deepen your connection to others, including your children.

• Look at what you want for your children, and correspondingly, how you have shaped how they spend their time.  What activities do they do, and to what end?  Which of their activities—include family routines and such—do you think will ultimately bring them the greatest happiness?

Happiness Journal: Entry 1

As part of this new online class I signed up for at the beginning of the month, i need to start keeping a happiness journal. As one of my main goals during this class is to figure out how to keep those that i love and care about closer in to my day to day life I figured this was a good place to do it. Nothing like letting it all hang out;)

Lesson one requires me to take a couple of online tests at Authentic Happiness So I took the Satisfaction w/ Life Scale: scored 23 on 5-35 scale. Also completed the General Happiness Questionnaire: scored a 4.5 on 1-7 scale. Both of these scores are generally in the middle of the scale and also happen to mean that I am generally happier than about 40-50% of the people around me.

Next see some questions about happiness;)