Personal Reflection

Happiness is an essential goal for most people. From books and expensive classes that teach people how to achieve happiness to the fundamental right of “the pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independence, the importance of happiness is evident in society. This causes the rise to two fundamental questions: “How does one attain happiness?” and “,How does happiness create a meaningful life?” Both happiness and living a meaningful life are achieved simultaneously. The search for happiness and the factors that make it brings meaning to life. Happiness can stem from several factors such as wisdom and knowledge, savoring life and its experiences, and even suffering and pain. Analyzing these factors brings meaning to one’s life.

On 08/20/2017 at 1002 hours FTO Wheeler #4361 and I responded to St. Luke’s Hospital emergency room entrance, on 3555 Cesar Chavez St., regarding a women in a hospital gown trying to break the caller’s vehicle window with a brick. Officer Wheeler and I were in full police uniform driving a marked patrol unit when we responded.

Achor utilizes a meta-analysis, or the combination of different findings, of over 200 scientific studies to prove his overall theory that happiness leads to success in almost every aspect of life from family to friends to careers and businesses. He does not rely solely on the data or information from a few relevant case studies, but instead relies upon experimental research to support his claim. He utilizes his findings to create “The Seven Principles”, which are “patterns that predict success and achievement” (Achor, 17), which is headed by “The Happiness Advantage.” He utilizes the concept of positive psychology and neurological activity to showcase the point that we can “retrain our brains to

This reflection will discuss personal diffidence and how it has influenced my academic studies, including my practice within placement settings. Gibbs reflective cycle (Gibbs, 1998) has been utilised as it illustrates a clear structure for the process of reflection. To conclude this reflection will draw together the themes which have emerged and highlight a clear action for future learning that will be used in order to enhance my future practice.

Following Malcolm Gladwell’s idea on “the story of success”, Sonja Lyubomirsky put happiness to the test. Happiness has many great advantages that some may not think about. Studies shown happiness leads to stronger relationships, higher work performance, and even living longer with many health benefits.

Because happiness can be different things to different people, Happiness Advantage examines the importance of defining the happiness. People tend to follow the pattern of success leads to happiness; however, after many experiments, Achor has found out that people actually experience the moment of happiness before they successfully reach their goal. It’s important for a person to learn how to improve her mood and raise her level of happiness throughout the day. So that she can retrain her brain to capitalize on positivity in order to improve productivity and performance.

To illustrate, a Year 8 student has a few signature strengths like creativity and perseverance yet she also has difficulty comprehending some of her characteristic weaknesses of being introverted and neurotic in life. Rather on devoting a good amount of time to correct or even change her weaknesses, the approach of PE suggest that the focus of building up her assets and using it frequently in her daily life enables happiness by fulfilling self-satisfaction. Over a long term basis, the success of such joyous moments eventually become more of a gratification rather than temporary enjoyments(White, Murray, & Seligman, 2015). Henceforth, by putting forth into positive schooling, it helps the children to be more accommodating to the neuronal emotional

The pursuit of happiness is the universal search for a life an individual can feel content and satisfied with. However, as stated in class, happiness is a fleeting emotion rather than a prolonged state. Once an individual achieves a sense of happiness it is only a matter of time before they return to the starting point of their quest. Therefore, happiness alone is not enough to elicit a good life. On a similar note, in 2004, Professor Martin Seligman gave a TED talk that addressed the current direction of psychology. He believed the extent of psychology had become the ability to “make miserable people feel less miserable” rather than “[making] relatively untroubled people happier.” As a result, he and his colleagues developed positive psychology, a branch of psychology that promotes the components of happiness, well-being, and fulfillment to achieve a satisfactory life. The purpose of this project is to learn about your well-being and discover ways to increase the quality of your life through positive psychology.

perspective on an individual's life. A person has to work throughout their life with a positive

The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want by Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky is simultaneously an academic book and comprehensive guide about positive psychology and it’s applications in daily life. Dr. Lyubomirsky provides not only facts and figures to back up her science but also includes quizzes and exercises for the reader to learn more about himself or herself in context with the book. The book is broken down into 3 different sections: How to Attain Real and Lasting Happiness, Happiness Activities, and Secrets to Abiding Happiness.

On the one hand, the concept that people have in mind about happiness is really important in order to achieve what they want in life. This moves them to do new things and to be creative. Also the way of thinking and the reaction to each situation that confronts. The results are good or bad according to the decision that they took in the moment to face the situation, and also, they make people happy or unhappy.

Positive Psychology is defined as “…the scientific study of human flourishing, and an applied approach to optimal functioning. It has also been defined as the study of the strengths and virtues that enable individuals, communities and organizations to thrive” (Gable & Haidt, 2005, Sheldon & King, 2001, as cited by Positive Psychology Institute). According to Martin Seligman, one of Positive Psychology’s pioneers, positive psychology consists of three major components- “pleasure and gratification”, “strength and virtue”, & “meaning and purpose”. He believes that the road to “lasting fulfillment” is a journey in which an individual must pass through each component in chronological order. (Seligman)

The study randomly assigned participants to either express an optimism and gratitude letter. Whereby the control group generate a list of activities from the previous week over the course of an 8 week period. Well-being was measured instantly before and after, for a 6 months intervention period. According to the article, the results of the study indicates that performance of an “optimistic thinking” activity predicted a much greater maintained change in subject well-being compare to a control condition. In contrast to Seligman et al. (2005), happiness-enhancing activities can maintain a person’s well-being improvements for up to 6 months. The activities that was best believed to maintain a person’s well-being were: positive emotion pleasure, engaged in a positive matter in life and lastly, having a meaningful life were the better route to increase happiness. The researchers examined whether the three interventions will increase lastingly happiness and decreased depressive symptoms. In the study, participants were fully aware of the conditions to embellish

This course is about experiencing your present,past and future, discovering your signature strengths and then using them often in all areas of your life that you value. The reward for having good character and personal values is happiness. Happiness is a inner state, and we each have the power to access and sustain deep lasting contentment within us. Most of us are taught to believe that happiness comes from the outside, the object, or the experience we take pleasure in. True happiness is deeper than one true thing we may desire. Money cannot create a permanent state of happiness but it can definitely create temporary excitement. If we release the need to look for outside objects to make us happy, we realize happiness is a choice and we all have the choice to be happy and truly feel it. Happiness can come from

The writing I did this semester for Engl 110c has meant alot to me because I was able to pick a topic that has such a huge impact in my life. I was able to do the topic about Navy Wives, which has a huge impact on me. I recently became a navy wife a year ago and my life has changed drastically. I was able to share everything I wanted to about the life of a military wife through my writings, as well as share to my classmates about my topic. I really enjoyed creating my ePortfolio because I could come out of my shell and be me. I made a ePortfolio website that would be for military wives to read. I believe this website would be perfect for any military wife reading it. I was able to give tips and information on what it’s like to be a military wife, how to prepare for deployments and how to stay strong being a military wife.