A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment

Course: A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment
Start Date: 6/21/2015

Seven Deadly Sins

1. Devaluing the happiness
2. Chasing superiority
3. Being needy or being avoidant
4. Being overly control-seeking
5. Distrusting others
6. Distrusting life
7. Ignoring the 'source within'

Seven good habits

1. Prioritize but not pursue happiness
• Means that monitoring happiness makes you less happy
• Those who received a daily reminder to prioritize were happier than those who didn't receive the such as an email.

Medium Maximization

Means that we tend to forget the long-term goals by the short-term goals, like in the money. 

E.g. Instead of thing in buy a house we only focus in get more money.

Type of happiness 

1. Authentic pride
2. Love / connection
3. Abundance

1. Devaluing the happiness
• When we have incorrect ideas about the happiness. E.g. The happiness will turn you in a lazy person
2. Chasing superiority
• Lower our performance in intellectual tasks but drive us to perform better in non-intellectual tasks.

Characteristic of Flow experiences

• Distorted perception of time
• Lack of self-consciousness
• Intense focus on the present moment

How to reconnect
Get a hobby (2-3 hours per week, doing challenging things)

Get flow at job
 Identify your talents and nurture them
identify things that need your community

Gratitude 

Is a way to get happy by telling to the other people why you appreciate from them.

How to be happy

There are three things needed to be happy

1. Mastery in a filed
2. Belongingness
3. Autonomy

Work Smarter not Harder

This is a course taken from Coursera.

Module 1 

• Create a plan
• This will allow you not only plan the future, you also will can know how to manage with the changes or new requirements. 
• To review how you spend your time
• You teach to others how to treat you
• E.g. If you allow to work after business hours one time then everybody will be used to that
• Strategic Reserve Time 
• = Time available to do all tasks - All commitments
• Time dedicated to special projects (personal or business)
• Remained time between planned time Vs real time, the difference is time that you can dedicated to another activities.
• Estimating
• Experience is the best tool
• Communication
• Communication takes time!!!
• Schedule your communication time

Module 2

• To do two things at once is to do neither.
• Switching Cost: It is the time taken to switch from one task to another, and back again.