Happiness fact 11: 38% reported their life vision as "not very clear"

According to a survey from authentic-happiness.com with 1,800 respondents from around the world, 38% believe that their life vision is "not very clear". 51% rate it as pretty clear, while 11% state that they do not have a vision.

• Do you have a vision?
• Is it very clear and crisp in your mind?
• Have you ever tried to design a vision board or articulate your life vision on paper?
• Have you defined the sort of person you want to become?

"Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills.
Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get.
The major value in life is what you become.
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become."
Jim Rohn

Source: Authentic Happiness Score 2014 Survey

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Happiness fact 10: human happiness hits the lowest point around ages 40-42

The mid-life crisis is real, according to an Australian-led study of thousands of people in three countries.
Social economists from the University of Melbourne have found that happiness levels is the lowest in people aged 40 to 42.
"Human happiness hits the lowest point around the ages of 40 to 42," says Dr Cheng, who worked with colleagues from the University of Warwick and the London School of Economics.
"The jury's now in. People really do experience mid-life crises."
The study, which looks at decades of data from tens of thousands of people in Australia, Germany and Britain, has been published by the German-based Institute for the Study of Labour.
"What is interesting is the consistency of the results in all of the three countries we examined. Human happiness hits the lowest point around the ages of 40 to 42", Dr Cheng said.

Source: Terence C. Cheng Nattavudh Powdthavee Andrew J. Oswald, German-based Institute for the Study of Labour, 2014

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Happiness fact 9: happiness = 50% genetic+40% our activities+10% circumstance

Factors influencing chronic happiness levels:
- 50% Genetic Tendencies
- 40% Intentional Activities
- 10% Circumstance

Lyubomirsky suggests that 30-40% of the difference in happiness levels is due to genetics (i.e. heritable). In other words still, Diener says it makes no sense to say one person's happiness is "due 50% to genetics", but it does make sense to say one person's difference in happiness is 50% due to differences in their genetics (and the rest is due to behaviour and environment).

Source: Sonja Lyubomirsky, US, 2010

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