Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Happiness

Happiness: Eighth Choice, Generosity

God gives each person something to share, something uniquely ours to give, a portion that enriches the earth and the world, and if we hold back, others are impoverished by the lack of all the goodness we have to give.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Happiness

Happiness, Second Choice: Accountability

Foster and Hicks explain that accountability is the choice to assume full personal responsibility for your actions, thoughts and feelings, and the emphatic refusal to blame others or circumstances for your own unhappiness.  

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Happiness

Happiness, First Choice: Intention

There are nine choices Foster and Hicks discovered that consistently happy people make. Each choice leads to the next in a circular helix very like the chambers of a conch. The choice that launches all the rest is intention.