A Formula for Happiness

Martin Seligman has boiled it down to a formula: H=S+C+V. H is happiness, S is your set range, C is the conditions of your life, and V is other variables. None of us has much control over the "setting" on our set range -- it's narrow or wide, high or low depending on personality and early conditioning. But we can influence where we spend our time within that range by how we live our lives -- the C and V of it all. To live on the high end of the range is to maximize the time you spend being content, grateful, exuberant, at ease... happy! Seligman has a lot to say in his book "Authentic Happiness" about how to live at the high end of your range. And that's the goal of my "More than a Paycheck" workshop for the domain of work. Somehow the formula makes it seem more doable. Not easy, but possible.