The Happiness Advantage: I found this talk to be motivating and inspiring. As we have been talking about wellness this past week, mental well being and how to be positive, I think the time is right for this talk. As he speaks (quickly) about the happiness advantage, I want you to pay close attention towards the end as he offers listeners the secret that his research has helped him find. There is a key to gaining the happiness advantage! For your blog post this week, I’d like you to start a Google Doc called “Happiness Journal”. On this journal I’d like you to write down three NEW THINGS EVERY DAY that you are thankful for or that have made you happy! Once you’ve done this for (at least 5 days), on the blog write down how it’s felt trying to think of things that are positive and happy each day. Have you noticed a difference in your general attitude? Write down your observations.
Yerin
2/23/2016 03:07:10 pm
Thinking about the things that made me happy each day has made me a better person. It brought out the best in me. At first I had no idea what to write and then I thought about what I did that day and how many times I smiled. After I thought about that, all the ideas came flowing.
Khushi
2/23/2016 07:09:45 pm
After the past 5 day of writing on my happiness journal I have realized that there is more to life than money. Life is a representative of how you choose to life life and how you choose to spend your days as a human. When I first started my Happiness journal I was really puzzled about what to do and how to put down what I learned. I realized that life WILL put us through obstacles but there are easier ways to make yourself happy and to make everything make sense and fall into place.
Khushi
2/23/2016 07:10:48 pm
Here is the link to my doc for my Happiness journal just in case you want to check it out: https://docs.google.com/a/hdsb.ca/document/d/1s_QSvwvBGN9fV4uUH10swwt-Sh0wVccH0uuQnDR724Q/edit?usp=sharing
You are gonna need to copy the link and then post in into a new tab to view the doc!
2/23/2016 07:12:42 pm
Wow. Great journal entry's!!!!
2/24/2016 06:00:17 pm
Emily
2/24/2016 04:42:09 am
When I was writing my happiness journal, I was reflecting back to what I was doing and knew that I wasn't going to forget what I did and it also made me write about something happy. Even though some days I am not in a very good mood, I still was thinking of something happy. I might have not have the best day that day but I still pulled something out of the day and made it really happy…
Good Job. !!!!!!!
2/24/2016 11:40:18 am
Great Job!!!!
2/24/2016 02:53:50 pm
Connor #Being happy
2/24/2016 03:10:47 pm
When I was writing in my "happiness journal"(Truth: I didn't know so I didn't do it), I felt happier than before. It was amazing how happy I was, and when I didn't write in my made-up journal.
Rayna
2/24/2016 03:47:10 pm
After writing in my happiness journal I realized how grateful/happy I was to have all these wonderful things. I think writing about what you are grateful for makes you appreciate all the things you have in life. For example most of us have iPads or iPods( or any other device) but you may not realize how lucky you are. Some people cannot afford this technology, therefore you should be grateful.
Vib
2/24/2016 04:31:50 pm
My Happy Journal. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c-8yCrzw2b4A20QtcOrDZ6WHJwPpfsNza1_9hglyYlk/edi
me
2/24/2016 04:32:32 pm
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c-8yCrzw2b4A20QtcOrDZ6WHJwPpfsNza1_9hglyYlk/edit
coutts
2/24/2016 05:44:34 pm
When I h was writing in my happiness journal i just felt so goo and sad because thinking about all of my memory's and the things that made me happy are still making me happy. I feel sad because I miss all of the things that make me hay like my sister she lives 4 hours away in Detroit well not in Detroit but not that far away and I don't get to see her often and she is one of my harpy memories and she was always there for me. Anyway I felt really board writing in my happiness journal because I am not the kind of guy that a wants to talk about mos hey feelings but towards the end I kind of liked it because I got to real live my memory's and my sister.
Nicole
2/25/2016 11:03:12 am
Doing the happiness journal is going to make the whole class better. We are already a great class and the blog post this week is going to make everyone feel better. That's just going to lead it to the school, city, country etc. If we have a happy class that could change the school. Everyone loves to be happy so this is a great task.
Sydney
2/25/2016 12:40:28 pm
I think by doing the happiness journal as a class our spirits have lifted and we have become happier. I couldn't even imagine how much kinder our schools would become if we did this for a year, which would be awesome. Being Happy is an important skill even though what I am saying may be so easy to you, some people spend there time being angry and depressed which doesn't help at all.
Monica
2/25/2016 01:22:12 pm
Starting from Sunday all the way to Thursday, each day I wrote down a little bit about the day and 2 things that made me happy and 1 thing that I am thankful in the day.
Kai
2/25/2016 01:45:00 pm
After trying to be positive each day of the week, I found that it is not always easy. A lot of times I wake up and don't feel happy but I force myself to be and it usually works, but the happiness journal made it easier. This journal makes it more simple to find different ways each day on why each day is special. Even though this journal helped me, I don't want to do it again. It is helpful and makes life easier but I like finding out ways to stay positive by myself. This journal has made me a more positive person in general but I still think that it is more simple to stay positive without a journal. My family doesn't usually spend a lot of time together and sometimes we try to and it doesn't work out. My parents are really busy, My dad is one of three owners of his company, and my mom is on her fourth year of university so when they aren't busy they either have headaches or don't want to. I think that the happiness journal has made me a more positive person and I will try to stay like that.
Blake
2/25/2016 02:00:52 pm
It makes me feel very happy because I think about the happy stuff going on in my life. I am very thankful for that. It also makes me want to do more happy stuff in my life.
Chloe
2/25/2016 02:14:27 pm
I think doing the happiness journal helped out a lot. If everyone around the world started to wright about happy things that happened maybe the world won't be so mean. Its so much more easier to be nice and hold the door open for someone then to be mean and shut the door inside their face.
Salma
2/25/2016 02:15:01 pm
After righting in my happiness journal, every single day for 5 days I realized that the smallest things can make you the most happiest. Whenever I felt down or just not feeling that good I would sometimes look at the journel and see that I had over 10 things that make me happy and there was one thing that made me sad so I tried spending time with those people I wrote down or for those things that just make me happy! It also reminded me that I should be thankful for everything I wrote down because not many people have or will ever have it. And that just how life works.
Salma
2/25/2016 02:16:02 pm
*writing
Aidan Roseland-Barnes
2/25/2016 02:36:39 pm
Since I wrote in my happieness journal for 5 days, I have noticed a difference in the way I act and my mood. Or that was just the tournament ;). Just kidding. Even the smallest things I have done have changed the way I act, BUT small things are actually big things. You need the small things in your life. I have been having more fun in life lately than before.
Lucas
2/25/2016 02:37:07 pm
BE HAPPY!!!!!
Lucas
2/25/2016 02:38:31 pm
Opps my paragraphs got mixed up I don't know why this is happening it happened last week too
Cali-Rose
2/25/2016 03:51:34 pm
BE HAPPY EVERYDAY!
Haider
2/25/2016 03:56:34 pm
Thinking about the positive things, did not have a large impact on me. The happiness journal was a homework assignment, so I didn’t feel any different or more happy/positive. I haven’t noticed any change in my general attitude. I feel like I am already a positive person, so this is why I did not notice a change.
Tom
2/25/2016 04:46:27 pm
I like the happiness journal. It tells me our world is not full of sadness. It is a great idea, because sometimes I feel sad but when think of some happy things I feel better.
I think this is a good idea for our blog post this week we all have happy times and sad we all have fun times and not so fun times and we all have anger inside us going to come out one day or another but we all can be happy our hole lives and this is why I think the happiness Journal is a fantastic blog post I do my home work on Thursdays so I dont have one but I will still tell you what I have seen over the past 5 days.
Jessica
2/25/2016 05:27:05 pm
When I think about the happiness journal I think about how tough the world can be but everyone can get through it and everyone needs some happiness all the time. Everyone Should try to be a little happy even if there sad .
Blake
2/25/2016 06:08:01 pm
I didn't like my last blog post and I think I can improve and do better this time. Here it is. After completing my happiness journal for 5 days and 3 times a day so that is 15 times. I realized there are so many happy things going on in my life. For example I had a lot of fun doing my C.Y.O.A and my parents and my little brother are very nice to me. If you just stop and look around and see what's going on in your life you may just realize you are having so much fun and you are feeling very happy. Each day is another opportunity to be happy so make it your mission each day to do something very nice to another person and if your feeling very happy then do it again. Happiness rubs of on one another it can be kind of like baseball if somebody gets a single then everyone is happy and excited and then everybody gets singles or even doubles,triples or maybe even home runs. That is my example of how happiness can rub off on one another. This journal made me have to do happy things and after that I realized I am very happy a lot .I admit I have troubles i'm not always happy I get sad or angry sometimes but who here is happy all the time. Everybody has they're ups and downs but that's life it's not always perfect, but you can always try and be positive. Think about this your parents and other people help you so much in your everyday life's because there are some people that do so much for you and you can give back by helping them around the house. Sometimes the little things make a big difference. There are some people in the world that don't have the same privileges as us. So please try and be positive you don't have to do it all the time but please try and be positive because sometimes little things can make a very big difference. This happiness journal has made me feel more positive and hopefully I can keep my attitude like that. Happy trails!
Noah
2/25/2016 06:37:41 pm
For this weeks blog post we had to right a happiness journal and then after we have done the happiness journal for 5 days we write our observations about doing the happiness journal and what we thought about the happiness journal and hear are my observations.
Vib
3/1/2016 04:47:47 pm
I was a little like Haider but i was a little happy.This was fun even though it can emoitinaly dusterb me. Comments are closed.
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