Welcome to the Happiness Adventure! If you want to subscribe right now to the Adventure, simply click on the link "create new account" in the menu on the left hand side. If you want to remind yourself what it's all about, read on...
I want to inspire you to discover the kind of happiness that forms a strong foundation for life success and sustains you when challenges come your way.It’s an inside job, as you change your focus to what happiness truly is for you, and reach more often for all that creates happiness in your world.
It’s also a habit. As the philosopher said, we are what we repeatedly do, and I believe that by building habits of happiness, you can move yourself forward from wherever you are right now. I don’t know exactly how happy you feel at this moment. I do know that in being open to this Adventure you are committed to becoming even happier, and to experiencing more happiness in your life.
Your Happiness Adventure begins today. Like all adventures, it is a journey of exploration. I’m honoured to act as your guide and I am also excited that I don’t know exactly how our joint Adventure will evolve. That will depend upon what we all discover.
One thing I do know for certain - we will be increasing the sum total of personal and collective happiness as we journey together.
So what happens now?
Subscribe to the Happiness Adventure and, starting on Monday 13th July, you will receive two inspiring and challenging emails a week from me based on my seven themes of happiness:
Week One: Be Positive
Week Two: Only Connect
Week Three: Write Yourself Happy
Week Four: Appreciate Your Nature
Week Five: Have Fun
Week Six: Be Inspired
Week Seven: Make a Difference
This is to help you build habits of happiness. Each day I’ll be offering you some wisdom from the treasure trove of current research and thinking on what creates happiness, together with a simple suggestion for action.
These actions will all be little things that you can do quickly and easily, and whilst everything is optional in this Adventure of yours, you’ll get more out of it if you fully participate. By joining the Adventure as a Founder Member you’ll get free access for the next 8 weeks to all the resources, and can go back over anything that you miss.
At the end of the seven weeks you will be ready to choose the personal Happiness Habits that you are going to work with going forward. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet!
All that’s needed right now is for you to subscribe to the Happiness Adventure blog by clicking on the link "create new account" on the left hand menu.
Oh,and whilst you are looking forward to your first helping of happiness, here is a happiness action for you - go out and discover a really nice notebook to record your insights and reflections along your way. Every adventure needs a travel journal and you'll enjoy looking back on yours in the months to come.
I am delighted that you are joining me in reaching for happiness and I wish you all the best in your world as you take your first steps in this adventure.
Being positive on a Monday
Mon, 13/07/2009 - 07:00 — Jeni
The Happiness Adventure inspires you to build habits of happiness. This week’s theme is Being Positive – choosing thoughts and feelings that are resourceful and that move you forward.
How many times a day do you find yourself bothered by negative, anxious thoughts that go round and round in your head? Plenty, I’m sure, and that’s normal, but not desirable! Staying stuck with these thoughts leads to unpleasant emotions and can keep you in a groove of pessimism rather than optimism.
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Welcome to more happiness!
Fri, 10/07/2009 - 07:06 — JeniThe last few days have seen a real flurry of new Happiness Adventurers getting on board, so a big, warm, happy welcome to you all!
In this little space before we get started on the next stage of the Adventure, I've been talking to many of you about your experiences so far. Already you are reporting that you are feeling more positive and powerful in your lives. The act of focusing on your happiness on a regular basis is really making a difference.
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Day Twenty One - Make a difference
Wed, 01/07/2009 - 11:24 — Jeni
How have you made a happy difference to yourself?
Day twenty one of the first stage of your Happiness Adventure and I’m wondering how you have made a difference to your happiness already?
We all approach change and growth in different ways. Some Happiness Adventurers will have absorbed the reflections and followed the suggestions for action in these postings to the absolute letter. Yet others will have dipped in and out. Some of you may have “not quite got round to it yet.”
All of that is fine.
Day Twenty - Be inspired
Mon, 29/06/2009 - 09:00 — Jeni
Recall a forgotten talent
There will be something that you used to do, and loved to do, that you no longer do. Perhaps you played a musical instrument. Sang. Danced. Painted. Wrote. Made pretty handcrafted celebration cards, or got absorbed in needlepoint. I don’t know exactly what it was for you, but it was something creative, even if you never felt you did it really well. You will have let it drop for a 101 good reasons. Today I want you to start to think about bringing it back into your life.
Day Nineteen - Have fun!
Sun, 28/06/2009 - 09:00 — Jeni
Be someone else today
I’m all for authenticity. Being who you are, no masks. Someone about whom you’d say “there’s no side to her.” So it might seem a bit odd that I’m asking you to pretend to be someone else today. Bear with me, dear Happiness Adventurers, for there is a purpose to this playacting.
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Day Eighteen - Appreciate your nature
Sat, 27/06/2009 - 08:53 — Jeni
Walk amongst trees
Appreciating our nature isn’t just accepting ourselves in all our messy glory. It is also about accepting that we are a part of the whole of nature. And you don’t have to be a tree hugging, knitted sandals kind of person to enjoy today’s happiness adventure.
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About Jeni
Wed, 20/05/2009 - 12:38 — Jeni
Jeni Purdie is a professional coach and an internationally published writer in her field. She is passionate about helping others to define and create their own vision of happiness.
Ask a happy question - week three
Wed, 02/12/2009 - 18:04 — Jeni
Over the coming weeks the Happiness Adventure shares with you the powerful questions that will lay a foundation for you to make 2010 your happiest and best year yet. At the start of each week simply reflect on the question and give yourself permission to draw the answers to you during the week ahead.
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Ask a happy question - week two
Wed, 04/11/2009 - 08:39 — Jeni
Over the next twelve weeks the Happiness Adventure shares with you the powerful questions that will lay a foundation for you to make 2010 your happiest and best year yet. At the start of each week simply reflect on the question and give yourself permission to draw the answers to you during the week ahead.
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Ask a happy question - week one
Mon, 26/10/2009 - 20:09 — Jeni
Over the next twelve weeks the Happiness Adventure shares with you the powerful questions that will lay a foundation for you to make 2010 your happiest and best year yet. At the start of each week simply reflect on the question and give yourself permission to draw the answers to you during the week ahead.
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