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True happiness comes from steady progress towards your meaningful goals.

You need to feel that your life has purpose and meaning, that you are somehow making a
valuable contribution to the world around you.

10. Personal Fulfilment This is the certain knowledge that you are moving your life towards the
realisation of your full potential as a human being. This is called "self-actualisation" which is
characterised as the primary attribute of the healthiest, happiest and most successful men and
women.
A major benefit of studying yourself and your own path to success and happiness is that it will
show you how to become your own psychologist. You will learn how to achieve and maintain a
positive, optimistic and happy mental attitude and how to develop a fully performing, mature
personality.

You can’t hit a target you can’t see. Defining the ten ingredients of happiness helps you identify
what to aim for. Defining your life in ideal terms, you will develop the courage to decide exactly
what you want and begin the process of removing the obstacles to your success and
happiness. Later, you will learn a proven process of thought and planning to achieve whatever
goals you want.

When you begin to practice what we will learn in these sessions, you should enjoy greater
peace of mind, improve your perceptions, elevate your self-esteem, benefit from enhanced self
-knowledge and increased awareness, enjoy better health and energy, more and better loving
relationships, greater financial freedom through more fulfilling work, construct exciting goals and
ideals to which you can commit yourself, and savour a wonderful feeling of personal fulfilment
and personal achievement.

EXERCISE | How Happy Are You? Find Out With The Wheel of Happiness

Referring to the ten steps of happiness, you might like to print the next page and plot your score
for how satisfied you feel in each area out of ten. When you have plotted a score for each,
draw a continuous line connecting the scores. The ‘bumpier’ the shape that appears indicates
the ‘less-than-smooth’ journey to happiness you are presently undertaking.
Zero or 1 is dire, suggests you have a lot of work to do to arrive at a happier state. Ten is a little
optimistic. If you score yourself ten in every area and mean it sincerely, I congratulate you on
achieving such an incredible state of self-satisfaction. However, I would suggest there is little
more these sessions can add to your current state of euphoric bliss!

Seriously though, be realistic in your rating of each area. The GAP between where you are and
where you would like to be, summarises where you need to focus to bring a balanced level of
happiness and fulfilment to your life.

This exercise helps identify the key areas of your life where a GAP presently exists between
where you are now and where you want to be, so you may take action with the aim to arrive at
a smoother circle and a more balanced life. Repeat the exercise frequently to monitor your
progress in each area.