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How happy is
the world? How happy am I? And how happy are you? ...Hmm,
intriguing questions indeed. Difficult to answer, too - well, when it comes
to personal happiness anyway. I guess surveys on world happiness usually
show us that it's not always the rich and famous amongst us who are the happiest,
just as people living in the richest countries are not necessarily happier than
those living in poor ones. Ain't happiness
contrary? To help us all find
happiness, I've included links to recommended happiness surveys from the BBC
(and others), as well as my own thoughts about happiness - my own 'happiness facts'. But
before all that, I'd like to start the Self Help Collective happiness survey,
by asking you this simple question: How happy are you, right now? Do
let us know! (Or why not tell us
about what makes you happy?)
Happiness
SurveysHappiness survey - what I say... Rather than talk to you
about happiness surveys in general, I'm going to share with you a very personal
happiness survey of one - my own! I'm going to tell you how happy I
am right now, as of 11.14am on June 4th, 2008. It will be personal
(I hope you don't mind) but instructional nevertheless, and it might encourage
you to share your own happiness thoughts with the
rest of us too! Hint hint! ;-) Happiness Survey of
Steve M Nash (that's
me!)Well, a bit about me, I guess: - I work for myself (at home)
so I have no boss ordering me around and telling me to do 'stupid things'; my
ideas do not go un-listened to; and I don't have to commute to work, either. Still,
working at home can be a bit lonely at times. :-(
- I'm not rich,
but I'm not poor either. I don't have lots of gadgets or the most expensive sports
car (I don't own a car, actually) but I do okay. I make a passive income from
websites like TextMeFree.com, so I could
take the whole week off and still get paid. (How? Google
Adsense, that's how!)
- I've just broken up from my girlfriend
(of 5 months) - a woman I loved! It was a mutual decision but (I now think) a
wrong one. I'm trying to get back with her but am not hopeful (there's an email
waiting for me that I'm sure is marked 'Dear John' - tch, you'd think that she'd
know my name by now, wouldn't you!).
- I'd like to be a father,
and I'm wondering (at aged 43) whether that will ever happen for me now.
- I'm fit and healthy and I have a reasonable social life, but I could
do with breaking out of my social routine a little more.
- I've
finally got around to writing
my first novel last year. Something I've been putting off for 20 years.
But the book's a bit weird (and probably unpublishable), and the first rejection
slip I received a few days ago will not be the last I'm sure. I'm going to start
my second novel in August anyway.
- I'm meeting a good friend
this evening and we will be both be using our communication
skills and having a laugh.
- And I love where I live; the
sun is shining too... :-)
(Are the above reasons
to make you happy?) So how happy am I, a man aged
43, home-owner living in England, still single and with too many tendencies to
choose to be negative? My happiness rating is 95% - yes, I'm pretty
darned happy! :-) I love working (for myself)
on this website;
I love my family and friends; and I know that I can meet the challenges ahead
of me, even if that means nursing a broken heart for a while! You know what, I've
never been happier! Seriously. Actually, it helps if you don't take
life too seriously. (Ah, that's where I've been going wrong all this time!) Okay,
that's me. Please share your own survey now, even
if you're not happy, but do think of some positive things happening in your life
(as well as negative) - they will be there, if you look hard enough.
Happiness
survey - what Jacqueline Johns says...Despite Jacqueline being an Aussie
(and therefore not a Pom) she is still able to feel positive and happy
about life. So much so that Jacqueline thinks of herself as the happiest person
she knows. Actually, she's so happy that she's created a whole website about happiness
(now that is happy). And here it is - Happy
Life Mentoring And this is Jacqueline's
happy story... Of course I'm joking (about Aussies). And that's because,
as we all know, scientists have shown that living upside down is actually quite
good for you, once you get 'adjusted'. (Yes, I'm still joking. I'll stop
there. Ahem!)
Happiness survey - what these recommended
resources have to to say...Happiness surveys really can offer surprising
insights into how the world sees itself. And quite often the more world has the
less happy it is. Anyway, I've collected some highly respected happiness facts,
or happiness information, so you can see for yourself:
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