How Pursuing a Purpose Creates Greater Happiness

Happiness can be elusive. Sometimes it seems the more it’s pursued the harder it is to find. This is especially true for enduring happiness, which is quite different from celebratory happiness, like you might experience at a party. I believe the most fulfilling form of happiness cannot be “found” per se. Enduring happiness needs to be developed. It is the product of a healthy and gratifying relationships and purposeful work.
Research and observations by Harvard Business School professor Howard Stevenson and senior research fellow Laura Nash, authors of “Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win” found that enduring personal satisfaction comes more from the act of achieving than from the actual accomplishment. This point is significant in a world that measures our success by our accomplishments. It is the endeavor itself that creates feelings of gratification. This is one of the great personal benefits of embracing and pursuing a meaningful purpose.

The Founders of BeHappyForLife.Com – Episode #43

We’re thrilled to introduce Be Happy For Life!

Be Happy For Life! is more than a series of products and services to help you live your happiest life possible – it is a concept, a new way of approaching your life, of learning about what matters most to you, and how to maximize your motivation, energy, and focus. Be Happy For Life! is unlike anything. Period.
Dr. Jimmy DeMesa

Jimmy DeMesa is a physician, a “rejuvenating” corporate CEO, an entrepreneur, an author, and a speaker. He’s also the ingenius professor behind the popular website BeHappy101.com.

Rudy Weitfeldt B.A., EMCA, M.Ed.

Professionally and personally, there are few people in the world more qualified than Rudy to talk about overcoming adversity and living a happy life.
Steven DIamond

Steven Diamond has spent the past three decades producing and touring large scale shows around the world with some of the most creative minds on the planet.
Fundamental to our approach is the integral belief that people learn best -we connect with new ideas best – when we are interested, involved, and entertained, all at the same time.

Rudy Wietfeldt – How To Find Happiness – Episode #39

Professionally and personally, there are few people in the world more qualified than Rudy to talk about overcoming adversity and living a happy life. With undergraduate and graduate degrees in philosophy, physiology and psychology from the University of Toronto, Rudy comes with over 20 years of clinical experience in Emergency Psychiatry. As well, Rudy’s work includes his private psychotherapy practice and, using “skypotherapy” via the web, he treats people from around the world. A prolific author and speaker, he is the National Health and Happiness Examiner for Canada. Rudy is also co-founder and president of a software company that specializes in publishing self- development apps as well as treatment modules on web, computer, and mobile-based platforms using Computerized Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques.

Rudy has released The Core of Happiness – a book dubbed “the great Canadian novel on Happiness” – having himself faced early parental loss as well as the death of four children, three boys and a girl, by age 33. The Core of Happiness was penned by Rudy in the hope that his surviving children and others would ultimately derive benefit from his philosophy of hope that has guided his life.

In early 2010, Rudy reached out to Steven and to Jimmy via the web as part of a plan to collaborate with others interested in promoting personalized, genuine happiness.

The Winners!

I Want to thank everyone who participated in our “Are You Happy?” Contest.

There were so many great answers,

I just couldn’t pick one.

So I picked THREE!

I was really impressed with the answers. So I wanted to share with you my own personal answer.

Happiness is a state of mind. It’s something you simply choose to be and allow to emerge through mindful daily Practice.

It doesn’t require things. Regardless of what movies like The Secret (Extended Edition) tell you, no house or car or any amount of money will ever make you truly happy if first you do not change your state of mind.

Which is really to say – consciousness.

Be Happy For Life! Video

I am thrilled to announce the launch of a secret project I have been working on for years!

Be Happy For Life!

Click Here to meet the team behind Be Happy For Life!

Be Happy For Life! is more than a series of products and services to help you live your happiest life possible – it is a concept, a new way of approaching your life, of learning about what matters most to you, and how to maximize your motivation, energy, and focus.

Be Happy For Life! is unlike anything. Period.

What Makes You Happy?

What makes you happy and why?

I want to hear your story.

Please take a moment and post your answers on this page in the comment section below.

It doesn’t matter how simple or complex it is. I just want to hear from you, what makes your truly happy.

In the days to come, very soon, I’ll reveal why I wanted to know this information from you.

Please take just a moment and tell me your story.

Am I happy?

I have spent many years researching happiness. What is it? How does it come to be? Why aren’t we all happy? Aren’t we each born that way? What happens in between then and now? What I am getting at is that none of us actually wake up in the morning and sit on the edge of our beds and try and figure out how to have the most miserable day possible. Which would lead me to believe that we each have an innate deep seeded desire to be happy.

However, happiness is such a vague word. The word itself never really satisfied my desire to know what it is. Most people when embarking on a search for happiness begin their search by looking to the outside. They look for “what” will make them happy. “Who” will make them happy. They search for security falsely believing that the arm of another person next to them will provide them happiness. We believe that if somehow we were able to “gather” the right combination of “things” that we could find happiness in that. Not realizing that we are actually dooming ourselves before we even begin to fail in our quest.