This document discusses how to achieve well-being and human flourishing. It notes that well-being involves developing skills and that true happiness comes from living a virtuous life focused on worthy deeds. Practical strategies discussed for increasing well-being include acts of kindness, gratitude, using your strengths, developing flow, valuing relationships, and finding meaning and purpose. Cultivating good habits like meditation, exercise, and lifelong learning are also recommended.

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Presented by Loriann E. Fuhrer
CBA Barrister Leadership Program
January 8, 2015

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Career Trajectory?
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Career Trajectory?
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B
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Annie Dillard
How we spend
our days is, of
course, how we
spend our lives.

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Do Things You LOVE
With People You LOVE
For Reasons That MATTER

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What is
GOAL: To Measure + Build Human Flourishing
+ Well-being is a set of skills
“Happiness is commonly mistaken for passively experienced pleasure
or leisure.That conception of happiness is good only as far as it goes.
The only worthy object of all our efforts is a flourishing life.
True happiness is a verb. It’s the ongoing dynamic performance of
worthy deeds.The flourishing life, whose foundation is virtuous
intention, is something we continually improvise….”
From The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness,
by Epictetus (interpreted by Sharon Lebell)

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What is
+ Martin Seligman, U.Penn., Positive Psychology
+ 2002, Authentic Happiness
+ 2011, Flourish: A Visionary new Understanding of Happiness
and Well-Being
GOAL: To Measure + Build Human Flourishing
+ Well-being is a set of skills

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Practical Reasons to Care
Happy people:
+ Live longer (4-10 years longer)
+ Earn more income
+ Are more likely to be promoted
+ Are more productive

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Practical Reasons to Care
The Good News
40% of our capacity for happiness
is within our power to change!

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Kindness Exercise
+ Doing a kindness produces the
single most reliable momentary
increase in well-being.
+ Exercise: Find one wholly
unexpected kind thing to do
today and just do it.

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The Role of Gratitude
+ Strong correlation between
gratitude and subjective
well-being
+ Physical benefits include
improved immune system and
better sleeping patterns
+ Men are less likely to feel and
express gratitude than women
+ Gratitude is a practice

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(FLOW)

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William Butler Yeats
Happiness is
neither virtue nor
pleasure nor this
thing nor that, but
simply growth.

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+ Free strengths survey at
authentichappiness.org
+ Find, Use, Increase
+ Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder 2.0
(Gallup)
+ Brene Brown, The Gifts of
Imperfection: Let Go of Who
You Think You’re Supposed to
Be and Embrace Who You Are
Signature

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Write down
things that went
well each day
for a week

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The Value of Service
+ Happiness is not selfish
Happier people are more likely to help other people
+ One of the best ways to increase
your own happiness is to help
make someone else happy*
+ One of the best ways to make
other people happy is to be
happy yourself
*Fortunately, we’re in a service industry.

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Being The
Great Lawyer
You Are

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Knowing + Using Your Strengths
Finding Flow/Engagement
Valuing + Cultivating Relationships
Having Passion that Comes from Meaning
Achievement = Skill x Effort
Skill is built through effort.
10,000 hours to mastery (quantity + quality)
D. Goleman, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

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+ Fixed mindset: assumes our character, intelligence
and creative ability are static and success is an
affirmation of those inherent qualities
+ Growth mindset: thrives on challenge and sees
failure not as evidence of unintelligence but as a
springboard for growth
+ “This is the mindset that allows people to thrive
during some of the most challenging times in
their lives.”
Make Mistakes!
Carol Dweck, Mindset:
The New Psychology of Success

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Good judgment comes
from experience
Experience comes from
bad judgment

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Practice Good Habits
+ Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 8th Habit
+ David Allen, Getting Things Done
Develop Written Life Plans +
Mission/Values Statements
What can I be the best in the world at?
Jim Collins, From Good to Great

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good
meditate sleep

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NEVER STOP LEARNING!
Focus on Your Customer
Be a Student of Business + Industry
Be a Student of Life + People
Some Business + Industry Books To Read
David Maister, The Trusted Advisor
Seth Godin, Tribes
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point
Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In

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Favorite (TED) Talks
Ken Robinson: “How schools kill creativity”
Elizabeth Gilbert: “Your elusive creative genius”
Susan Cain: “The power of introverts”
Brene Brown: “The power of vulnerability”
Simon Sinek: “How great leaders inspire action”
Bryan Stevenson: “We need to talk about an injustice”
Jane McGonigal: “The game that can give you 10 extra
years of life”
Steve Jobs: “How to live before you die”

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Interesting
Blogs/Podcasts/People
Maria Popova: Brainpickings.org
Artie Isaac: Net Cotton Content blog at youngisaac.typepad.com
Seth Godin: sethgodin.com, sethgodin.typepad.com
Tim Ferriss: timferriss.com, fourhourworkweek.com
Gary Vaynerchuk: garyvaynerchuk.com, #AskGaryVee
Terry Gross: Fresh Air, npr.org
Harvard Business Review: hbr.org
Eric Barker: Barking Up The Wrong Tree, bakadesuyo.com

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What if
“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I
am about to do today?”
“Whenever the answer has been ‘no’ for too many days in a row, I
know I need to change something.”
STEVE JOBS,
Stanford Commencement Speech

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Seneca,“On the Shortness of Life”
It is not that we have a short
time to live, but that we waste
a lot of it. Life is long enough,
and a sufficiently generous
amount has been given to us
for the highest achievements
if it were all well invested.

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Holstee Manifesto
(holstee.com)

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Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to
myself, not the life others expected of me1
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.2
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.3
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.4
I wish that I had let myself be happier.5

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+ Martin Seligman, Flourish, Authentic
Happiness, authentichappiness.org
+ Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project,
Gretchenrubin.com
+ Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage,
goodthinkinc.com
+ Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis
+ Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling On Happiness
+ Douglas Smith, In Pursuit of Happiness
+ Leo Babauta, zenhabits.net
Further Reading on Happiness

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Thank You
Loriann E. Fuhrer
Director
lfuhrer@keglerbrown.com
keglerbrown.com/fuhrer
614.462.5474
@LoriFuhrer