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?