Maslow SelfActualization

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Self-Actualization
Esteem (Success, Status)
Love and belonging (affiliation, acceptance)
Safety needs (security, stability)
Physiological needs (food, water, etc.)
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Maslow Self-Actualization

• It means achieving ones full potential,
  fulfilling a mission, possessing fuller knowledge
  of and accepting ones self
• only one percent of population are
  self-actualized people

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Happiness

• Is a general sense of wellbeing that can range
  from contentment to ecstasy
• One way is to think of happiness as the feeling
  you have when things go the way you want them to,
  and unhappiness is when things are not going the
  way you want.

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Write one thing that makes you happy...

• Share it with a neighbor

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Barriers to happiness

• unrealistic expectations

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Barriers to happiness

• basing happiness on external objects
• Happiness isnt associated with , age,
  nationality etc.

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We are on average 4.5 times richer than our
grandparents...

• are we 4.5 times happier?
• Age, gender, race, income education combined
  account for only 10-15 of variance in happiness

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Only 15 of Happiness
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Barriers to happiness

• Ill be happy when...

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Ill be happy when...

• If we wait for everything we want accomplished
  to be completed before we celebrate, we will miss
  the party of life. (Pearsall, 1988).

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Barriers to happiness

• Perfectionism
• We have to be the best at everything

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10 - 80 - 10

• Most of our happiness comes from individual
  action
• We can decide much of our happiness or misery
• Feelings dont have to dictate us, we can dictate
  feelings

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The Simple Things

• -extreme joy can come from the simplest things