PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

•  The Coachee Must Have a High Degree or Teaching Index (Basic Concept) to Work Better: to Have this Willingness to Learn.

• What Are you Willing to Give up Over a Week, a Month, a Year: Having this Willingness to Accept Change.

• If You Want to See Things Change in Your Life, Change Things In Your Life!

• MORE DESIRE: MORE LEARNING!

• You Don't Know What You Don't Know: Unconscious Incompetence.

• Who Are You Listening To? Develop Your Unconscious Incompetence.

• Balance Of Work Balance (Basic Concept): Thoughts Are Fundamental, Essential To The Realization Of These Dreams, Work Attitude.

• Don't Worry About The How!

• Develop Your Conscious Competence To Better Realize Your Conscious Incompetence And Reach Its Unconscious Competence !

• Work On The Neural Circuits That They Enlarge To Get Them Used To Functioning On The Unconscious And Skills.

• Focus On The “Thirst” To Learn !

• Practice As Much As Possible!

• You Become What You Think About!

• Law of Attraction, Frequencies, Vibrations Similar!

• Have a Longing For The Things You Want To Get!

• What You Want You Want! You Create By Your Thoughts!

• Define Your Dream And Have a Burning Desire For Its Success !

• Feel Good, Right Away, Now!

• What You Say Is What You Get!

• Success Is Only a Decision!

• Learn to Say Thank You To The Things Around You: It's All About Emitting Good Vibrations!

• The Notebook For The Client Is Essential: Write Dreams By Hand, Sometimes Clean It If Necessary !

• The Dream Board: Positive Images To Store!

• Think About What You Want Most Often!

• Focus On What You Want, Not What You Don't Want!

• Don't Put A Time Limit On Things!

• It's Going To Be Fine, Everything Will Work Out, I Don't Know How But ...

• To Predict The Future Is To Say, To Talk About The Future !

• Take Pleasure In The Process Of Getting Something!

• The Goal Is To Feel Good All The Time Through Thoughts!

• Add Value To Society !

• Look for the feeling of being at your best! Be precise !

• Depth of Vision: Seeing Things as They Could Become: See Beyond !

• Better Management Of Your Time : For Better Management Of Your Priorities !

• Read Every Day, Listen To Audio!

• Take Failures As Successes !

• Always Use Your Creative Power !

PERMA CONCEPT

• Positive Emotion : Expression Of Love, Gratitude, Satisfaction, Pleasure, Hope

• Commitment : When We Engage In An Activity, A Project, And Time Stops Because We Are One With The Object, Self-Concern Disappears And It Gives Us A Feeling Of Accomplishment.

•  Relationship : Maintaining Positive Relationships With Others (Friends, Family, Neighbors, Contacts), Contributes To The Feeling Of Well-Being.

•  Meaning : Values, Life Plans, Beliefs, Commitment To Action.

• Achievement : To Reach One Or More Important Objectives In Our Eyes, To Be Realized, Promotes Your Fullness.

E.N.P.P

European Network of Positive Psychology

• Positive Emotions Are Linked With Improved Health, Well Being, Longevity, Greater Quality Of Life. It Will Improve Performance, Motivation, Engagement, Conflict Resolution Skills, Original Thinking. Regarding Colleagues, It Will Help Deal With Stress And Challenges Get To Know Them. They Will Be More Engaged And Energized. A Clue Would Be Sharing A Success Story.

• How Would You Like Your Goals? Be Meaningful Please. Can I Have Some Values And Strengths As Well? Reward Yourself In Order To Flourish Through Pleasure Pathways. Small Rewards Can Make You More Generous, Friendly, Happy, Productive And Accurate At Work, Related To Common Sense Not Common Practice.

• Resulting Positivity, Engagement, Connection, Meaning, Acknowledgement. To Sum Up With, More Contribution At Large. The Better Your Brain Is At Using Its Energy To Focus On The Positives, The Greater Your Chances At Success.

• Better Mondays.

THE POWER OF OPTIMISM

BE HAPPY

AND

STAY HAPPY

ANTI-STRESS TIPS

AND TRICKS

1) Practice Positivism (A Way Of Seeing Life)

2) Being A Disciple And Not A Victim Of Difficult Situations

3) The Situation Or Problem Becomes My Fulcrum To Move To The Next Level Or Progress

4) All Our Sufferings, Our Obstacles Are Challenges Of Growth

5) The Difficulties Are There To Put Us Into Action And Make The Change

6) Let Go To Make Something Less Tense

7) Accept To Be Open To What Is To Come

8) Change Your Outlook, Your Vision Of Things, Your Interpretations

9) Stop Wanting To Control Everything

10) Stop Wanting To Be Right

11) Sometimes, Mourn Something

12) Forgive

13) Accept Yourself At All Levels

14) Acquire The Necessary Skills To Rely On Yourself

15) Live In Accordance With One's Inner Motivations

16) Emotional Regulation (12 steps)

17) Knowing How To Organize And Manage Time

18) Conflict Management (DESC)

POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS

  ÉMILE COUÉ METHOD

- I Know Successful People, So I Can Do It Too!

- We Really Need To Start One Day, All Coaches Start One Day And Succeed. I Know I Will Succeed!

- I Let Go, The Universe Is Only Abundance And Has An Unlimited Reservoir And Will Meet All My Needs And Desires!

- I Want To Feel Good, I'm Healthy, Energized!

- Deep Wisdom And Growth Are Always Well Hidden In Our Darkest Nights: Patience!

- Objectives: Action Plan: Actions

- Every Day From Every Point Of View, I'm Getting Better And Better!

- I Settle Down As A Life Coach And I Succeed!

«IT'S A MYSTERIOUS THING THAT WHAT APPEARS ELEGANT HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF BEING TRUE THAN WHAT IS UGLY. »

ROGER PENROSE, MATHEMATICIAN

THE WORLD OF PRODUCTIVITY AND PROFITABILITY, OF MARKETS AND OF THE GLOBALIZED ECONOMY, INVESTED BY FIGURES, PERCENTAGES, THE QUANTIFIABLE METHODICALLY OUSTED OUR PERCEPTIONS AND OUR IMPRESSIONS, EVEN OUR SENSITIVITY AND OUR CREATIVITY. HOWEVER, WE KNOW THAT THE GROWING COMPLEXITY OF TODAY'S WORLD CANNOT BE GRASPED ONLY BY EQUATIONS, DIAGRAMS OR MODELS.

THE HISTORY OF REPRESENTATIONS OF SPACE, AMONG SCIENTISTS AND ARTISTS ALIKE, SHOWS THIS PARTICULARLY WELL. TO UNDERSTAND THIS, JEAN-PIERRE LUMINET, RENOWNED ASTROPHYSICIST, WILL TAKE US BEHIND THE SCENES OF RESEARCH IN THE SCIENCES OF THE UNIVERSE.

FROM THE CLOSED COSMOS OF ANTIQUITY TO THE UNIVERSES OF MODERN COSMOLOGY, HE WILL SHOW US TO WHAT EXTENT THE CREATIVE PROCESSES - IN SCIENCE AND IN ART - INTERPENETRATE AND ARE BASED ABOVE ALL ON AN EMOTIONAL APPROACH TO THE WORLD, AS MUCH AS ON PRINCIPLES. AESTHETIC (SYMMETRY, BEAUTY, ECONOMY OF MEANS ...).

THUS, QUALITIES SUCH AS LISTENING, INTUITION, IMAGINATION ARE AS ESSENTIAL AS THE SCIENTIFIC MIND. NOT ONLY DO THEY ACCOMPANY RATIONAL DYNAMICS, “EXACT” THOUGHT, BUT DELIVER AN INCOMPARABLE APPROACH TO THE LIVING AND THE COMPLEX.

THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF WORKS BY VARIOUS ARTISTS AND CREATIVE SCIENTISTS, SUCH AS PLATO, DÜRER, VAN GOGH, KEPLER, ESCHER OR EINSTEIN, WE WILL UNDERSTAND THE WAY IN WHICH CREATIVITY IS EXPRESSED WITHIN THE CONSTRAINTS SET BY THEIR DISCIPLINES.

AN INSPIRING INVITATION TO QUESTION THE SPACE WE LEAVE TO THE IMAGINATION IN OUR ORGANIZATION OR IN OUR WORK ...

TRANSITION FROM EGO TO UNICITY IN 7 STEPS ("NAFS")

1) Depraved : To Judge And Accuse Others About Your Own Situation.

2) Disapproving : Questioning Oneself And Finding The Error In Itself.

3) Inspired : Learn And Learn, Curiosity And Listen.

4) Peaceful : Wisdom, Respect, Perspective, Empathy, Compassion

5) Completed : Be Happy With Any Situation And Whatever The Situation, Disregarding All External Information, Accept And Take The Opportunities That Arise By Trusting Yourself And The Signs (Destiny).

6) Fulfilling : Being A Guide For Others, Being A Radiant Sun Of Energy, Advising, Helping, Power Of Healing.

7) Purified : To Be Nothing In Itself, But All At The Same Time, To Move By Thoughts, To See And Feel What Others Do Not See, To Let Oneself Be Carried Away By His Destiny, To Follow His Path, To Accomplish His Mission.

We Have All The Solutions Within Us To Achieve Uniqueness , We Just Have To Get To See Them, Understand Them, And Use The Right Key.

TREATY ON POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (PART 1)

Ø Positive Psychology Offers A Renewed Vision Of The Human Being, By Focusing On The Positive Aspects Of The Existence Of Individuals And Groups.

Ø The Objective Of Positive Psychology Is To Begin To Catalyze A Change In The Perspective Of Psychology By Moving It From An Exclusive Focus On The Pathology And The Treatment Of The Worst Things That Can Happen In Life, To A Focus On Which Helps To Build Positive Qualities.

Ø In Fact, It Is Above All Human Relationships And The Feeling Of Personal Accomplishment That Lead To Happiness, In Particular Through Commitment To Actions That Have Meaning In The Eyes Of The Person.

Ø  Happiness Therefore Arrives In Addition, Without Being Sought , While The Frantic Quest To Achieve It Is Likely To Prove To Be In Vain.

Ø There Are Two Conceptions Of Happiness: On The One Hand The Hedonic Approach Which Analyzes Subjective Well-Being (Positive Emotions And Situations Of Pleasure), On The Other Hand The Eudemonic Approach Which Focuses More On The Mobilization Of Resources In The Goal Of Increasing Individual Autonomy And Interpersonal Relationships. Eudemonism Is The Source Of A Deeper And More Lasting Happiness.

Ø Positive Psychology Also Turns To The Relational Aspect, By Highlighting The Central Role Of Human Relations In Happiness And The Meaning Of Existence. Empathy, Kindness, Gratitude, Are Among The Important Research Themes Of This Current .

Ø Positive Psychology Essentially Studies The Behavior Of Ordinary People, Who "Are Doing Well". She Also Proposes To Go "Even Better" By Various Techniques. But She Does Not Refrain From Understanding The Functioning Of People In Pain, In Order To Try To Relieve Them. But Then It Is Always In A Dynamic Turned Towards An Active Present And A Future Tinged With Hope Rather Than Towards The Painful Past.

Ø However, We Do Not Know Much Or Nothing About The Individuals Who Are Doing Well Or Who Are Feeling Well. This Is Where A Radical Change Of Perspective Appears (Compared To Classical Psychology), Which Abandons Pathology And The Treatment Of The Worst For An Analysis Of The Good And More Generally, Of The Positive Qualities.

TREATY ON POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (PART 2)

Ø One Of The Major Objectives Of Positive Psychology Is To Allow Individuals To Recover From A Shock, To Cope, To Return To A Level Of Balance After They Have Experienced Difficult Times In The Different Contexts Of Life. It Is Also About Allowing Individuals To Gain Something More From These Trials, Other Skills, Other Skills And Maybe Other Talents.

Ø First, It Is About Understanding How Individuals Can Develop, Improve And Make The Most Of Their Strengths And Skills Throughout Their Lives.

Ø  Gratitude Is A State Of Mind Or A Feeling Of Gratitude Towards A Person From Whom We Have Received A Benefit Or A Service, And Which Prompts Us To Give Something In Return.

Ø The Field Of Positive Psychology At A Subjective Level Concerns The Valuation Of Subjective Experiences: Well-Being, Satisfaction (In The Past), States Of Grace, Happiness (For The Present), Hope And Optimism (For The Future).

Ø At An Individual Level, These Are Positive Personality Traits: The Ability To Love And Find One's Vocation, Courage, Moderation, Aesthetic Sensitivity, Perseverance, The Ability To Forgive, Originality, Awareness Of The Future, Spirituality, Talent And Wisdom.

Ø At The Group Level, These Are The Civic Virtues And Institutions That Encourage Individuals To Achieve Better Citizenship: Interpersonal Skills, Responsibility, The Ability To Take Care Of Others, Altruism, Courtesy, Tolerance And Work Ethics.

Ø Treatment Is Not Only About Figuring Out What Is Wrong, It Is Also About Developing The Best. You Don't Chase An Unfortunate Past; One Is Drawn And Drawn To A Promising Future.

Ø Practitioners Need To Recognize That Much Of Their Most Effective Work Is More About Amplifying Strengths Than Filling Gaps In Their Patients.

Ø The Major Theories In The Field Of Psychology Have Made It Possible To Develop A New Science Of Strength And Resilience. Dominant Theories No Longer See Individuals As Passive Beings Responding To Stimuli But Rather As Decision-Makers With Choices, Preferences, The Ability To Learn And Be Effective.

Ø The Objective Of This Text Is To Highlight Positive Psychology As A Real Science Making It Possible To Fill Gaps In Our Knowledge In Order To Better Understand And Better Build The Factors That Will Allow Individuals, Communities And Societies To Be Fully Developed. If It Makes Sense To Y’All.

Ø In A Metaphor, It Was Said That Psychology Learned To Go Up Individuals From Negative Seven To Zero, But That It Did Not Fully Understand How People Go Up From Zero To Plus Seven.

Ø Some Scientists Have Shown That Negative Events Have A Greater Impact Than Positive Events, And That Information About Bad Things Is Processed More Comprehensively Than Information About What Is Good. While Positive Events, Information, Processes And Interactions Simply Occur More Frequently Than Negative Events.

Ø   It Seems To Us That Our Goal Is Not To Erase Or Supplement The Work On Pathology, Distress, And Dysfunction, But To Develop What We Know About Human Resilience, Strengths And Growth And Thus Integrate And Complete The Existing Knowledge Base.

Ø The Future Task Of Positive Psychology Will Be To Understand The Factors Of Development Of The Forces That Allow To Describe The Contexts Of Resilience, Determine The Role Of Positive Experiences And Delimit The Function Of Positive Relationships With Others.

TREATY ON POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (PART 3)

Ø The 3 Original Pillars Of Positive Psychology Are Positive Subjective Experience, Positive Individual Characteristics (Strengths And Virtues) And Positive Institutions And Communities. So Far, Positive Psychology Has Produced A Lot Of New Studies In The First Two Areas But Much Less In The Third. The Goal Is To Actually Improve The Functioning Of Schools, Workplaces And Even Governments.

Ø Positive Psychology Has Notably Shown That Positive Emotions Promote The Mobilization Of Personal Resources, The Planning Of Objectives And The Investment Of Energies, And That In Addition They Encourage Flexibility Of Mind And Creativity As Well As Professional Behaviors.

Ø The Work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Made It Possible To Identify The Optimal Experience Or Flow Among The Daily Fluctuations Of The State Of Consciousness: It Is A Condition Of High Concentration, Commitment, Gratification And To Get A Positive Affective State Whose Characteristics Are Apparently Stable and Recurrent.

Ø The Notion Of Psychological Well-Being : This Is A Complex Notion Made Up Of Six Elements : Autonomy, Mastery Of The Environment, Self-Acceptance, Personal Growth, Positive Social Relations, Life Goals.

Ø The Notion Of Social Well-Being  : It Is Made Up Of Five Elements : Social Acceptance, Social Achievement, Social Contribution, Social Coherence And Social Integration.

Ø Happiness Is A Process That Is Built Over Time, Changes Over The Course Of Life According To Events And Experiences, And Participates In More Structural Aspects Of Personal Identity. In This Perspective, Therefore, Happiness Is The Result Of The Vision And Representation Of Reality, Of The Hierarchy Of Values, Of The Meaning Attributed To Events And To Existence, Of The Expectations And Objectives That Characterize Each Individual.

Ø  Self-Efficacy Is A Source Of Well-Being Since Confidence In One's Own Abilities And The Expectation Of Positive Results Are The Engines Of Commitment, Perseverance In The Face Of Obstacles, And Personal Satisfaction In Achieving Goals.

Ø According To Researchers, Intrinsic Motivation Is Based On Three Innate Psychological Needs That Underlie The Optimal Functioning And Development Of The Individual : The Need For Competence, The Need For Autonomy And The Need For Affiliation .

Ø The Optimistic Explanatory Style Manifests Itself When The Positive Events Are Attributed To Internal, Stable, Global Causes (Own Capacities And Resources) And The Negative Events To External, Unstable And Circumscribed Causes.

Ø Researchers Define The “Good Life” From Six Virtues Universally Recognized As Being Fundamental Values : Wisdom, Courage, Humanity, Justice, Temperance And Transcendence.

Ø Psychological Well-Being Is Associated With The Search For Strong Challenges, The Increase Of Skills, The Construction And Maintenance Of Complex And In-Depth Social Relationships, The Development Of Psychological Characteristics That Differentiate Each Individual From Other Members Of The Community And That Help Develop Their Autonomy And Their Own Identity.

Ø  Well-Being Is The Complex Consequence Of Various Components, Including The Maximization Of Resources And The Development Of Potentialities, As Well As The Improvement Of Skills And Social Adaptation.

Ø  Subjective Well-Being Refers To The Evaluation That Individuals Make Of Their Life And Includes Both A Cognitive Judgment Of Satisfaction And An Affective Appreciation Of Moods And Emotions.

Ø  This Conceptualization Underlines Its Subjective Nature And Holds Individuals As The Best Judges Of Their Own Happiness.

Ø These Items Include Life Satisfaction (Overall Assessment Of His Own Life), The Satisfaction Of Important Areas Of Life (Satisfaction With His Work, His Health, His Marriage), The Positive Affect (Prevalence Of Positive Emotions And Moods), And Low Levels Of Negative Affect (Prevalence Of Negative Emotions And Moods).

Ø Positive Affects And General Well-Being Would Produce A State From Which Individuals Can Explore The Environment With Confidence And Approach New Goals, Which Would Allow Them To Develop Important Personal Resources.

Ø  Excessive And Obsessive Attention To One's Own Happiness Can Lead To Failure, There Are Activities That Individuals Can Choose To Do Deliberately Or Lifestyle Changes That Will Increase It, Such As Meditation Or The Fact Of Being Lucky.

Ø In A Study Where Participants Were Exposed To A Cold Virus, Those Who Reported High Levels Of Happiness Were Found To Be Less Vulnerable.

Ø  The Feeling Of Finding Meaning, Of Having A Goal And Of Accomplishment Typically Outweighs Pleasure As A Predictor Of Happiness.

Ø Happiness Seems To Bring Out The Best In Humans, Making Them More Sociable, More Cooperative And Even More Ethical.

Ø  The Happiest Countries Exhibit Higher Levels Of Generalized Trust, Volunteerism And Democratic Attitudes.

DEALS WITH POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

(PART 4)

Ø Recently, Some Psychologists Have Proposed That In Addition To The Economic And Social Indicators That Prevail Today, Governments Should Use A National Index Of Happiness, Well-Being, To Help Them Define Their Policy.

Ø Well-Being Is Not Only Appreciable Because It Feels Good, But Also Because It Leads To Beneficial Consequences. This Fact Makes National And Corporate Well-Being Monitoring Imperative.

Ø In Order To Facilitate The Use Of Measures Of Well-Being In The Definition Of A Policy, We Propose To Create A National Index Of Well-Being Which Would Systematically Assess Key Variables Of Well-Being For Representative Samples Of The Population.

Ø Variables measured should include positive and negative emotions, involvement, resolution, attribution of meaning, optimism and confidence, as well as the broad concept of life satisfaction.

Ø A periodic and systematic assessment of well-being will provide decision-makers with a much more solid set of data which they can use in their decision-making .

Ø Finally, we affirm that national indicators are necessary not only because well-being is an end in itself , but also because well-being is so often the cause of other valued effects such as worker productivity and enriching relationships .

Ø The system of well-being indicators that we are proposing would not replace current economic indicators or other social indicators, but would add additional value to them by placing them within a general framework of well-being , by emphasizing the limits of economic indicators classic.

Ø  Economic indicators have failed to capture the quality of life.

Ø In the experiment sampling technique, the moods and emotions of individuals are recorded “online” at random times in daily life, through a device such as a laptop computer.

Ø  A similar method is asking people to write down their feelings and activities at the end of each day.

Ø We therefore propose a national system that is more extensive and more in-depth than the current surveys which only base their conclusion on a few general items

Ø  The individuals who possess the most important well-being "are not those who live in the richest countries but those who live where social and political institutions are most effective, where mutual trust is high and where corruption is weak ".

Ø In consideration of the current data, it appears that the nations which have a high average well-being can be described as democracies endowed with efficient and stable governments, but also as societies which have a significant social capital, are believers and have economies strong with low unemployment and inflation rates.

Ø Fulfilling Jobs Tend To Have The Following Characteristics : Opportunities For Personal Control, Opportunities To Use Skills, A Variety Of Tasks, Physical Security, Support From Superiors, Respect And Status, People-To-People Contact, Good Pay And Benefits, Clear Requirements And Information On How To Achieve Those Goals.

Ø For Example, Flexible Working Hours, Childcare Solutions, The Ability To Work From Home, Title Options And Generous Parental Leave Terms Can All Improve Job Satisfaction If Properly Implemented. In Place.

Ø Similarly, Teaching Managers To Congratulate Employees In An Appropriate Way And Give Them Feedback On Their Work, Encourage Friendships And Give Employees What They Need Are All Ways Of Improving Job Satisfaction.

Ø It is surprising to note that people in poor health often adapt well to their condition and report positive levels of well-being , this testifies to human psychological resilience.

Ø Social relations constitute another major factor which affects well-being and ill-being but which is not taken into account by economic indicators (for example relocations).

Ø Current social indicators can identify such as crime, marriage and divorce, environmental issues (pollution), longevity and infant mortality, gender equality in schools and amount of land reserved for parks.

Ø Nevertheless, these social indicators fail to fully describe the well-being of nations because they do not reflect the real experiences of individuals, the quality of their relationships, the regulation of their emotions, the fact of feeling involved in their work, if feelings of loneliness and depression characterize their daily life.

Ø Also, organizations should respect the friendly habits of people at work and not try to eliminate opportunities for friendship under the mistaken idea that employees will work better if they are not distracted by their presence.

Ø Creation of a system of national indicators of well-being: sample broadly and representatively various groups of participants in a country, include measures of broad dimensions of well-being, such as life satisfaction, attribution meaning in life and having goals, confidence, involvement, depression, as well as positive and negative emotions.

Ø This system should also include more targeted measures of well-being in relation to different aspects of life, such as work, health, family, community and leisure.

Ø It should also include permanent measures which are used in all samples as well as specific measures and samples dealing with topical issues.

Ø It should also include in-depth measurements over time on sub-samples to assess the experience as it has taken place, rather than relying on people's recall ability.

Ø Follow subgroups longitudinally to provide a better understanding of changes over time.

DEALS WITH POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

(PART 5)

Ø  A national indicator should include several global indicators, such as life satisfaction, but it should also target positive and negative emotions in specific areas, such as work life, health, social relations and mental health, and it should be very detailed, breaking down life satisfaction into its constituent parts.

Ø A national well-being assessment system will cost millions of dollars every year. This cost, however, is miniscule compared to the cost of economic evaluations, which are blatantly inadequate in determining how developed countries are doing. The profits promise to be huge. They will include changes in policies that over time will improve for most people .

Ø When individuals continue to work despite their troubles, economic indicators can completely miss the suffering that is present. People who have depressive or anxiety disorders, for example, sometimes continue to function at work, while being unhappy. Furthermore, economic indicators give no indication as to why the productivity of these individuals may be low.

Ø  While societies get richer, disparities in terms of well-being are less often attributable to income and more frequently to factors such as social relations and fulfillment at work.

Ø Nowadays, knowledge is focused more on the material living conditions of people compared to the perceived quality of life, which we call their “well-being”.

Ø There is therefore a proven need for subjective indicators of well-being which would provide more complete information and which could help explain any disparity between relative prosperity and individual and social problems.

Ø These reliable subjective indicators could be used to adapt guidelines and to assess both change and the effects of new policies.

Ø Specialists in positive psychology have called for the creation of a national index of well-being that would systematically assess key variables of well-being for representative samples, including positive and negative emotions, involvement, determination and meaning, optimism and confidence, and life satisfaction, as well as satisfaction with various specific areas of life.

Ø A specific aim was to incorporate two distinct theoretical approaches to well-being: the hedonic approach, which is concerned with pleasure, appreciation and satisfaction, and the eudemonic approach, which is concerned with the functioning and the achievement of our potential.

Ø Seligman defines happiness as the combination of pleasure, involvement and meaning, identifying pleasure as the hedonic component and involvement and meaning as eudemonic elements.

Ø  The concept of well-being is based on “doing” rather than “being”.

Ø Women are more likely to report a low level of well-being when this is assessed through depression and reduced positive affects, but are more likely to report that they are treated with respect.

Ø Men are more likely to say they have time to do what they love and have done volunteer work.

Ø  The new “well-being” module of the European Social Survey (ESS) presents the opportunity for a nuanced description of the way in which the citizens of Europe perceive their life.

Ø  We believe that this Module will provide invaluable information to behavioral and social sciences and that it will contribute to the development of guidelines and practices aimed at improving well-being across Europe.

Ø  The ESS (European Social Survey) well-being module represents one of the first systematic attempts to create a set of national well-being reports that are relevant for future definition of political or social directives.

Ø  Happiness is determined by the satisfaction of needs .

Ø The most important gains in relation to happiness would be found in terms of freedom and justice . Good governance also seems to be able to contribute considerably to the average happiness of countries, regardless of the color of the political parties in power.

Ø  Another source of happiness is found in the institutional contexts in which we spend most of our time, such as work or school.

Ø Happiness can be increased at the individual level in three ways: by teaching life skills, by educating people about the likely consequences of their choices, by improving professional self-fulfillment counseling and lifestyle choices .

Ø  The most obvious way to increase happiness in modern society is to strengthen life skills (therapy, training).

Ø “The art of living” corresponds to the ability to lead a satisfying life and, in particular, to develop a rewarding lifestyle. This includes various skills, some of which seem likely to be improved through training techniques. Four of these skills are: the ability to enjoy, the ability to choose, the ability to continue to evolve, and the ability to find meaning.

Ø Learning to savor simple pleasures is part of certain religious practices.