Authentic Happiness

We can build happiness by deliberately creating more pleasure, engagement and meaning in our daily lives.

The Pleasant Life consists of thinking and feeling positively about our past, present and future until we are experiencing life at the top of our ‘set range’.

The Engaged Life grows when we know our highest strengths and recraft our lives to use them as often as possible. We experience fullness and flow; we lose track of time and feel a deep sense of satisfaction.

The Meaningful Life is possible when we use our strengths and talents to serve something greater than ourselves. There is no limit to meaning - it is completely adjustable and plastic.

-Martin Seligman

Passion and Drive

"Passion pulls you towards something you cannot resist. Drive pushes you towards something you feel compelled or obligated to do. If you know nothing about yourself you can’t tell the difference. You can’t understand the crucial difference until you find them at war inside."

-Randy Komisar(in The Monk and the Riddle).

Perfection

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."

-Samuel McChord Crothers

Million Dollars

"No one can earn a million dollars honestly."

-William Jennings Bryan

Better

IT only gets better when YOU get better.

-Anon

No expedient

"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking."

-Thomas Alva Edison

Unanimity

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."

-Christopher Morley