Everyday Matters
Using Positive Psychology for a better life.
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Happiness Is A Choice
Our usual way of thinking about happiness is backward
We think that if we attain something, would we will be happy. but if we attend to our happiness we are also more likely to have satisfying relationships and reach our other goals.
Not a mood but a work ethic
Change mindset; change way we view the world and outcomes
Find a way to make choice more often
We think that if we attain something, would we will be happy. but if we attend to our happiness we are also more likely to have satisfying relationships and reach our other goals.
Not a mood but a work ethic
Change mindset; change way we view the world and outcomes
Find a way to make choice more often
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Getting to know you
- Why did you sign up?
- What do you know already?
- What have you tried?
- How did that work out?
The Happiness Advantage
- Happiness as Habit (The Happiness Advantage)
- Building Your Community (Social Investment)
- Re-training Your Way of Thinking (Fulcrum and the Lever, Tetris Effect, and Falling Up)
- Removing the Barriers (The Zorro Circle,The 20-Second Rule)
Why is change so hard?
What can make if easier?
Using the Principles
Developing habits of seeing the positive
Practicing habits until they become automatic rituals
What has resonated with you personally?
Using the Principles
Developing habits of seeing the positive
Practicing habits until they become automatic rituals
What has resonated with you personally?
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Moving from knowledge to action
Personal goals
Vision of what you are working toward
Setting goals
Personal goals
Vision of what you are working toward
Setting goals
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Rewiring your brain
Not willpower
Developing new habits of thought and action
Using the Principles
Developing new habits of thought and action
Using the Principles
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Building your network
Frequently we isolate when confronted with difficulty--When we need each other most, we isolate ourselves
Connections are core of happiness
Social relationships are greatest single investment we can make
Reaching out for support
Who is your social support network?
How do you build and enhance it?
Relationships more important to longevity than weight loss, blood pressure, smoking
Having social connections improves peoples’ odds of survival by 50% on average.
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Living alone increased the likelihood of mortality the most, 32%, while social isolation raised the risk by 29% and loneliness by 26%.
Simply living with someone else increased survival by nearly 20%.
Extensive social integration nearly doubled the odds of survival.
- See more at: http://www.mdalert.com/article/whats-more-deadly-than-smoking-alcoholism-or...
Connections are core of happiness
Social relationships are greatest single investment we can make
Reaching out for support
Who is your social support network?
How do you build and enhance it?
Relationships more important to longevity than weight loss, blood pressure, smoking
Having social connections improves peoples’ odds of survival by 50% on average.
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Living alone increased the likelihood of mortality the most, 32%, while social isolation raised the risk by 29% and loneliness by 26%.
Simply living with someone else increased survival by nearly 20%.
Extensive social integration nearly doubled the odds of survival.
- See more at: http://www.mdalert.com/article/whats-more-deadly-than-smoking-alcoholism-or...
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Fulcrum & Lever
Changing Mindset
We operate on what we perceive
Changing center point; change perceptions and therefore outcomes
Call upon strengths to move fulcrum
Changing center point; change perceptions and therefore outcomes
Call upon strengths to move fulcrum
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Seeing Patterns of Possibility
Tetris Effect
Game of Tetris
Seeing patterns everywhere
...story in book...
Retrain to scan for positives
Happiness
Gratitude
Optimism
Seeing patterns everywhere
...story in book...
Retrain to scan for positives
Happiness
Gratitude
Optimism
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From challenge to success
Resiliency
Rebound from negative events
Challenges/Opportunities
What you make out of what happens
Post-traumatic growth
Challenges/Opportunities
What you make out of what happens
Post-traumatic growth
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Strategies to Increase Happiness
- Meditation
- Three gratitudes & Journaling
- Finding something to look forward to
- Committing conscious acts of kindness
- Infusing positivity into your surroundings
- Exercising
- Spending money- but not on “stuff”
- Using your signature strength
Which have you used?
What results?
Which ones have you continued to use?
What results?
Which ones have you continued to use?
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Zorro Circle/20 Second Rule
Building out from the center
Starting small
Starting small
Putting it all together
All of the principles, tools and strategies are inter-related
Used together they enhance each other (synergy)
They are not hierarchical or serial
Examples of how principles relate and play into one another
Used together they enhance each other (synergy)
They are not hierarchical or serial
Examples of how principles relate and play into one another
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Keeping it Going
Ripple Effect
Once we start to use the principles, positive changes ripple out
One small change evokes others;
changes relationships
How will you use and share the principles of positive psychology? What changes to you see as possible?
One small change evokes others;
changes relationships
How will you use and share the principles of positive psychology? What changes to you see as possible?
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