This is a talk on happiness that I gave at a Toastmasters meeting a year ago. It\\\'s obviously best if with supporting presentation skills, but it\\\'s also good alone. In case you want to know more about it, just drop me a line.

1. Happiness Competent Communicator Speech #8 Get Comfortable with Visual Aids Tobias Mueller The Pursuit of

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3. Scott Adams' Happiness Formula Happiness = Health + Money + Social Life + Meaning Image source: http://images.starpulse.com/Photos/Previews/Dilbert-02.jpg

4. Happiness Set Point/Genes 50% Surroundings 10% Intentional Activities 40% Source: S. Lyubomirsky et al., "Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change," Review of General Psychology, Vol. 9, No. 2, 111–131, 2005

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6. Don't compare!

7. Be an active part of social networks!

8. Write a Gratitude Diary! Image source: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/diaries/pics/diary_open_520.jpg

9. Be active!

10. "Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it." Nathaniel Hawthorne The American Notebooks (1851) Image source: Wikipedia

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12. Extract from the American Declaration of independance „ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.“

13. Happiness & Money Richard Laynard: - Above $ 20,000 a year, happiness does not increase - happiest are the people with a lot of social contact - if somebody loses 100 euro, it decreases his happiness by about twice as much as happiness increases by gaining the same amount - one third more decrease in happiness if everybody except one person gets a raise than it would increase if the person would get the raise alone. If all income increases, it would increase one‘s happiness one third less than it would if one got it alone Richard Easterlin - increased prosperity in industrial nations does not lead to increase of well-being