Do Happier People Live Longer?

The response is Yes if we believe the study compiled by worldlifeexpectancy.com about the happiness level versus the life expectancy in 193 countries around the world.

Let’s look at the graph below, there is a clear statistical trend from:
* less happy countries with a score of 160 and life expectancy of 50-60 years
* to very happy countries with an average life expectancy around 80 years
What is our take-away? Live happier, live longer.

Do you know your own Authentic Happiness score? Find out on Authentic-Happiness.com and get free customized recommendation to shape your life and improve your personal happiness score.
Cheers to a long life !!!
www.Authentic-Happiness.com

The Best Tricks To Keep Our Annual Resolutions ?

Ah the good resolutions, great ideas, even better plans, too often lost in a sea of good intentions! How often can you keep them longer than a month? 2 months maybe? 4 at best? If you are able to stick to them for the whole 12 months ahead of us, this article is probably not for you. You likely have your own secret, and you know how to make it work.

If not, read the next 3 paragraphs.

1. Looking for more happiness in your life, start with a short questionnaire to evaluate your Authentic Happiness score. With 15 questions, it will give you a first indication of how well you lead your life, shape your habits and design a lifestyle to maximize happiness. For each of your sub-optimal areas, you will get customized recommendations to find out more about these specific areas and if required, take a more thorough test.

2. What comes next is to define what makes a good annual resolution:

• Distinguish between what is important -and less important-, versus urgent -and less urgent. This is the essence of the Eisenhower method (see the “Manage you time” learning module in www.Authentic-Happiness.com)
• Use words to visualize your objectives: the Vision Board is a very effective tool to sort out your thoughts (find out more with the "Develop Your Life Vision" or "Get Active" learning modules).
• Make sure that your resolutions are meaningful connected to your personal vision and objectives. Check out the “Life Meaningfully” learning module.

3. Finally, now that you are done with developing your annual resolutions, how do you make sure that you will stay on track?

A sure way to stay involved is to use mobile technology. Some examples:

• Mobile application such as fitbit counts your daily steps to keep you in check. Competing with yourself month after month will help you stay fit & healthy.
• Another example is the “Way of Life” app: by investing less than a minute daily to track, identify and change your habits with Way of Life's unique red/green colour system, you will get daily help to reshape your “good” habits and forget the “bad” ones.
• Other applications like Lift makes you feel as if you have a personal coach in your phone: 24x7 and for 365 days. This will give you free guidance, motivation, and tracking for 100,000 different goals.
• Do you want to discover more apps to track your resolustions, visit www.Authentic-Happiness.com, “Track Your Progress” page.

In summary: To give long life to your resolutions, make sure that they will fully contribute to shaping a better life and that they are meaningfully connected to your goals and vision. Finally, search for the right apps, test them and select the ones that will help you stay on track for “the whole nine yards”.

What Is Your Authentic-Happiness Score?

Is Your score? 15 / 15 Congratulations, you must be a very happy person ! If not, you will receive customized recommendations to shape your life. Apply them, develop new habits and behaviors and take the test again. The Authentic Happiness score reflects how well you shape your lifestyle, habits and behaviors to maximize happiness. Try it, it is free on www.Authentic-Happiness.com Wishing you a healthy, productive and meaningful New Year in 2014, The Authentic-Happiness.com Team

What Makes Us Happy? Simply put.

We are happy because we feel well in our body. Partly true, studies show that illness and physical appearances are not long term predictors of our happiness level (see the studies from Prof Seligman from PenU). Rather, we are happy because we take care of ourselves: when we practice sports, go to the fitness club, take a long hot bath after running through the cold morning mist, or enjoy a healthy breakfast, …

We actually feel happier when we express positive feelings, express gratitude, laugh out loud, … But like a good movie, this instant happiness does not necessarily last.

Lasting happiness is achieved when we contemplate with pride the outcome of our past work. These successes and achievements make up who we are. We not only feel great when we look back at them, but also when we apply our skills and expertise, and achieve a state of flow to craft these personal accomplishments.

Lasting happiness is also reinforced by the people around us, our family and friends: we all need quiet moments for ourselves, but try it, living completely alone over a longer period is no fun.

And finally, what is it that creates the strongest and longer lasting feeling of happiness? Meaning. This is about the leadership of our life, about having a passion and putting in massive energy to live it fully, about articulating our vision and implementing our plan to get there, one step at a time. There are tools and templates like the vision board to help us define this meaningfully, but in the end, it is up to us individually to design our own way and enjoy every step of the journey!

All the best for the upcoming holiday, the time to enjoy, to reunite and to think. Meaningfully.
www.authentic-happiness.com

What You Need To Shape Your Life?

Traveling around the world, I meet with executives and leaders who ask themselves the question : does it really make sense? Why working so hard this year to get a tougher goal next year? What is left in the end ?
Really good questions one should ask himself. Even more important is to follow a structured path to find the right answer. From living an enjoyable life, healthy and productive, with friends and family around you , to defining meaningful goals as the leader of your own life.
Shape your life is a 5 week template taking you through what it takes to define your goals and reshape your life to achieve them.
Try it, if is free, will take you about 10 minutes per day, 4 days per week. And what if it actually transforms your life for ever?
At least, this will bring you the basic answers you need to stay motivated in your job and not feel like a rat in a cage !
www.authentic-happiness.com

25 Days To Shape Your Life

LIVE, ENJOY, CREATE, EXPLORE

& SHAPE YOUR LIFE

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• Check your happiness score and receive a free personal Life Satisfaction report
• Learn from world best practices and techniques
• Make use of proven tools, apps and questionnaires
• Discover your strengths and personality
• Create your "Ideal Week Agenda"
• Develop your action board towards your life dreams

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START HERE & NOW...

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LIVE, ENJOY, CREATE, EXPLORE & SHAPE YOUR LIFE

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LIVE,  ENJOY,  CREATE,  EXPLORE

& SHAPE YOUR LIFE

The Perfect Evening...

A glass of wine, nice movie, a great book waiting, thoughtful discussions and some quiet time to think about your self, the perfect evening!

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5 Pillars of Happiness

Go online and check for personal development methods, read books and magazines about happiness or positive psychology, get in tune with the flavor of the months, happiness secrets and concepts all revolved around five core concepts:

1. LIVE: Stay fit & healthy
2. ENJOY: Experience positive emotions
3. CREATE: Develop your talents & expertise
4. EXPLORE: Go social & discover the world
5. SHAPE YOUR LIFE: Shape a passionate & meaningful life

These five pillars form provides a common framework for the natural development of the overall vision, planning and tracking of our activities to shape a more meaningful life and maximize happiness throughout our entire days, weeks, months and years.

This framework has been designed to comply with the following design principles:

• The 100% rule: this means that 100% of the activities, tools and methods to achieve the goal of living a meaningful life are covered in one of the five pillars.
•  Mutually exclusive elements: in addition to the 100% rule, it is important that there is no overlap in scope definition between the different pillars. The goal there is to remove any ambiguity which could result in duplicated activities or misunderstanding.

Check www.authentic-happiness.com for more.