So many unhappy applicants!

I can’t believe how many unhappy people there are! The AD has only been up for 24 hours and we have received an overwhelming response so far for people who are very interested in receiving a happiness makeover! This is very reassuring for us because it confirms that people do want to be happy, they are interested in learning how and it gives us an audience for the show! Keep those applications coming!!!

Know anyone who wants a HAPPINESS MAKEOVER?

We are filming a PILOT TV SHOW that is unprecedented! It is geared for Prime Time Network TV and all of the heavy hitters in the industry will be looking at this PILOT. This is a very serious and professional project you can visit www.makemehappytv.com to find out more about the show concept.

Have you ever thought that you could actually be happy everyday for the rest of your life? Well, we found some people who have been happy for years and years in a row! A retired M.D. and a Psychology PhD Candidate have come together to help you learn how to live a sustainable happy life! They are offering FREE HAPPINESS-MAKEOVERS!!! With a combination of 50 years in the happiness business, both of these happiness experts have been experiencing, writing, speaking, coaching, and teaching happiness to audiences of a vast range of ages, experiences and ethnicities. They are bringing their comprehensive background to a TV show that gives HAPPINESS MAKEOVERS! The process will take approximately one week of your time.

We are looking for a group of people who meet the following requirements in order to receive a complimentary HAPPINESS MAKEOVER and be featured on a Pilot TV show for Primetime Network TV.

You want to be happy
You see it as an essential part of your life
You are willing to change your old behavior patterns that keep you stuck in your unhappiness
You have tried other techniques and nothing has helped
You do not mind being filmed
You are over 18
You live in the Bay Area

If you meet the requirements please email happinesstv@gmail.com to receive a questionnaire that will help us identify if the opportunity is right for you.

The Happiness Production Team

Bliss in Business

Bliss in Business:

The Role of Business in using Gross National Happiness as an agent of world benefit

In 1972, the King of Bhutan introduced Gross National Happiness (GNH) as the guiding philosophy of the country's development. Now the UK and several other countries are starting to also adopt this principle as a primary concern at the governmental level. Noble Laureate Professor Daniel Kahneman is currently helping several countries measure their GNH. This is undoubtedly a wave of the future.

Standard of living, health of the population, education, ecosystem vitality and diversity, cultural vitality and diversity, time use and balance, good governance, community vitality, and emotional well-being are the nine provisional (GNH) indicators identified by the Center for Bhutan Studies. Imagine if all countries adopted this principle; we could transform our Earth into a paradise.

Since implementing the GNH measure, Bhutan has reported an increase in life expectancy by 19 years while the gross enrollment rate in primary schools has reached 72 percent and the literacy rate has grown from 17 percent to 47.5 percent according to the Times newspaper of India. Not to mention that it is a leading country in sustainability. Again, the implications for countries that take a stand on the importance of happiness is desirable for their citizens and is clearly the next step beyond the industrialized GNP that has been emphasized in Western society. In his introduction to Well-Being: the Foundations of Hedonic Psychology (63), Daniel Kahneman expresses the hope that hedonic science will prompt economics to shift its focus from "those aspects of life that can be traded in the marketplace to desirable goods such as love, mental challenge, and (reduction of) stress."

This current and future transition has severe implications for the business sector as well as management scholars. Emphases on employee subjective well being (happiness) and positive affect have been growing bodies of research in the management literature only in recent years. It is clearly time for the business sector to not only take a stand in the ethics and morality of their accounting, corporate social responsibility, and environmental implications but also for the happiness of their employees.

Linkages to the increase in the bottom line, performance, effectiveness, and productivity have all been shown as results of happy employees. In 2004, (Halverson, 2004) it was discovered that if your manager has positive affect because of the emotional contagion theory, you are likely to also experience positive affect, which will improve performance. Frederickson and Losada (2005) have identified that the more positive emotions that are experienced at work will increase an individual’s scope of attention (Frederickson & Branigan, 2005; Rowe, Hirsch, & Anderson, 2005), broaden behavioral repertoires (Frederickson & Branigan, 2005), and increase innovation (Bolte, Goschkey, & Kuhl, 2003) and creativity (Isen, Daubmen, & Nowicki, 1987). Besides the aforementioned characteristics, positive affect has shown to make a difference in the health of our physical body, which, of course, leads to low absenteeism due to illness. (For a review, see Frederickson & Losada, 2005.)

It is in the benefit of the business sector and in management scholarship to explicitly take on Bliss in Business, especially as countries take on the GNH as a priority.

Now that it is clear that happiness is a high human concern, and it is to the benefit of political and business sectors to adopt it as a moral obligation it is necessary to understand what it is that increases happiness in individuals.

We propose a paper/interactive workshop that pragmatically outlines a conceptual framework for managers to employ to help increase the happiness, well-being, and positive affect of themselves and their employees. The techniques are inspired by the positive psychology movement, eastern philosophy, and the human potential movement.

We would like to envision a future of business that recruits employees not only by the monetary benefits but also by explicitly stating the importance of their happiness. If governments continue to move in the direction of enacting the GNH, business must follow in their moral obligation to help individuals and society at large.

Why should we practice Random Acts of Kindness?

Molly escaped the war in Bosnia and was able to come to San Francisco to start a new life. For many many years she thought that she should not be happy because the people in her country were suffering so much.

She did many self-help/ self-development workshops yet she was still unhappy. At last she came to the happiness club over and over and she never missed a meeting.

The message we teach at the happiness club is “HAPPINESS IS A DECISION” never made sense to her. In her words, “I felt like you were telling to be an orange and I am a lemon.” She thought that we were trying to tell her to be something she was not.

One day, I tell her a story about two women. One was sad for many years, she was divorced and she was very bitter and felt that her life was a struggle and she always needed people to pity her. She felt like her life was miserable and it would always be that way because of the events she suffered in the past.

The other woman, was happy, joyful, outgoing, colorful, fun, excited for life. This woman too had suffered a great deal in the past but chooses to see and experience life’s positive side.

It was through this story that Molly realized that happiness really is a CHOICE!!!

This was big news in the happiness club because Molly told the group once that she never would be happy, NEVER.

One woman who attended the happiness club even cried for her in empathy!

Anyway, once Molly made the happiness decision, she needed tools to help her maintain her happy state.

We do an annual meeting in the park and practice random acts of kindness. This is a very popular meeting! After the meeting we asked for a volunteer to perform 5 random acts of kindness everyday until out next meeting 30 days later.

When I checked in with her a few weeks after the meeting, she said “I feel like an angel on Earth!” I continually look for things to do to help people every chance I get. And now, when she needs help there is ALWAYS someone there to help her.

She recommends EVERY PERSON perform these 5 Random Acts of Kindness because the positive change that occurs in your life is unbelievable!

Molly has been happy every day since she realized that HAPPINESS IS A DECISION. Random Acts of Kindness is only one of her tools to help her live her sustainable happy life.

p.s. there is a random acts of kindness foundation at www.actsofkindness.org

Angels on Earth!

Come to the happiness club!

It is for happy people or unhappy people. It is for people who want to share their happiness or learn how to be happy! This month we will be focusing on one of the top methods to help us live happier lives! It is performing random acts of kindness! Who would have known that such a simple gesture would help us be happier! In other words, pretend you are an angel on earth looking for innocent bystanders to be nice to, to try to make their day, to help them smile….

Who wouldn’t want to be an angel on Earth? On May 28^th under the circle of Palm Trees (20^th and Dolores) in San Francisco from 3-5 pm there will be a group of “Angels” strategizing and then practicing Random Acts of Kindness in the park. Come and be an Angel for a day, join us!

If you have any questions call or email me.

Aymee Coget

Aymee@thehappyzone.com

www.happyaymee.blogspot.com

www.happinessclub.com

www.makemehappytv.com

www.thehappyzone.com

YOU are in charge of YOUR happiness!

For some reason people are not happy. They have every single exuse there is for their unhappiness. At some point in time society (advertising) got the best of us and told us we need things to make us happy. Well who can you count on if you can’t count on yourself. I ask you to stop looking outside of yourself for your happiness and look inside. Deep inside, because the only person or thing that will make you happy is YOU!!!

There are many ways to ignite this inner derived, long lasting and self sustaining happiness, ask me how…