Redefining success outside of $ and power

That’s it, weeks of work culminated in the release of the new web site design.Check www.Authentic-Happiness.com and tell us what you think: How do you like the new slider? How engaging is the new design? Anything else you would like to see?

How do we Measurably Thrive in 5 Core Areas of our Life outside of more money and more power?
What has not changed are the fundamental, evidence-based principles behind  www.Authentic-Happiness.com: i.e. our mission to provide free tools, content and questionnaire designed to help us shape our life.
Grounded on essential concepts from Maslow to Positive Psychology, our approach is to become aware and measurably develop our “life skills” to thrive in 5 core areas:

1. Our Health & Wellness: Life is fun, make it last.How active is our lifestyle? How many thousand steps do you typically walk everyday?
What is our BMI? Do we eat sufficient fruits and vegetables? About how long do you typically sleep?

2. Positive Emotions & Gratitude: Emotions are beautiful, Embrace them Everyday
In a typical week, how many times do we spend meditating or relaxing?
How often do you shout or sulk at somebody? How many entries do we write in our personal journal?

3. Our Productivity and Expertise: your Talent is a Gift, Make Use of it, Become an ExpertHow well do we complete your weekly to-do lists? In a typical day, how many hours do we experience “flow”? How sufficient is our income to cover basic life expenses? How many remarkable achievements are we proud of?

4. Our Social Life & Discovery of the World around you: Life is an Adventure, Go out Discover the WorldHow many new places have you visited over last year?
How many people are very close to us? With how many people do we interact during a typical day?

5. Thrive: this is our Life, let's live our Dream nowFor how many years ahead is our life vision very clear? How many hours do we spend doing what we are passionate about?
How many people have we helped achieve a better life? How much do we donate or raise for good causes?

Many self-reflective questions to ask ourselves at 6am in the morning, as a new day is rising and we enjoy our morning coffee…
Have a meaningful week,
Clara
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How a jar tells us to simplify our life

Have you heard the story about how to capture a monkey?
High in the mountain in a small village, a wise man devised a simple solution to catch a monkey: a jar with a fat bottom and a narrow opening.

How does it work? Put an juicy orange or some peanuts at the bottom of the jar, and wait. The monkey will come, attracted by the smell of food. As he grabs into the jar, his closed hand with the food remains trapped inside the jar, unaware of his embarrassing situation until the end of the day.

Simple zen story and a bit of a fairy tale, isn’t it? Literary yes, so what about our world dictated by “busyness”, power and money. Aren’t we the prisoners of our life with our hands stucked in the jar of materialism, monthly expenses & house credit? Unaware of our situation until the dawn of our life?

According to the Happiness Score, only 28% of 2,100 respondents actually believed that they spend enough time doing what they are most passionate about. What is your score?

How do we free ourselves? By letting go of unnecessary burden and refocusing our life on meaningful goals.
This sounds nice, should I quit my job and stop paying my mortgage? Certainly not, but consider the following:

1. Simplify your life, donate what you have not been using for years, this is more space in your life and will make people in need happier.

2. Take a small bag, leave all your “stuff” behind and go out on vacation. Discover the world with the people close to you, you will discover them as well.

3. Live your dream, find out what your passions are, this is often what you loved doing as a kid. Become an expert of it and share your passion.

Thoughts, feedback? What is your personal experience?
Does it work for you?

Have a fun and meaningful Sunday,

Clara

PS: more like this, visit www.Authentic-Happiness.com, check your happiness score and get a free personal Life Satisfaction report.

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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 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 !
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