Happiness is all around - and so am I - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog

Happiness is all around - and so am I - The Chief Happiness Officer Blog Last week was a very busy one for me, where I had no less than 4 gigs last week of a wildly varying nature. From talking to a group of students from Aiesec about happiness at work in a volunteer organization, to talking to a group of insurance claims handlers about stress and busyness. That last presentation, incidentally, happened on one of their busiest days, because Denmark had just been hit by severe thunderstorms giving insurance companies nationwide a lot of extra work. Talk about good timing :o) Thursday I presented on happiness at the reboot conference. Preparing for this, it turned out that working with happiness at work for the last 4 years has also taught me a lot about happiness in general partly because Ive been keeping up with a lot of the research done in positive psychology and in economics, but mostly because in that period I have literally lived for happiness mine and others. The presentation content itself turned out to be completely different from my happiness at work presentations, and I had to develop a completely new presentation for this event. My main points were: Happiness is the point of our existence. Were here to be happy. Happiness is easy. Everything we need to be happy is easy to get. We tend not to know what makes us happy. Happiness is subversive. Happy people are the greatest danger to some of the structures in society that are holding us back. I like how the presentation went and some people told me later that it was one of their favorite reboot experiences. Stephanie Booth was there, and she was kind enough to blog some amazing notes. You can also download my slides. Then on Friday I went to Stockholm to do my first presentation in Sweden and that went even better. A group of around 50 business leaders, HR people and journalists heard my standard presentation on happiness at work and they really, really seemed to like it. Which is good, because I did the event together with Swedish speaker bureau 4good, and were hoping to develop many more speaking gigs for me in Sweden. Thanks for visiting my blog. If you're new here, you should check out this list of my 10 most popular articles. And if you want more great tips and ideas you should check out our newsletter about happiness at work. It's great and it's free :-)Share this:LinkedInFacebookTwitterRedditPinterest Related