This is the PowerPoint from our webinar with N.Y Times Best Selling Gretchen Rubin Author of The Happiness Project

1. Welcome to The Canadian Career Development Webinar Series-

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4. Page Gretchen Rubin is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Happiness Project a n account of the year she spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to be happier. On her blog, The Happiness Project , she reports on her daily adventures in the pursuit of happiness. Rubin started her career in law, and she was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O C o nnor when she realized that she really wanted to be a writer. Her bestselling Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill and Forty Ways to Look at JFK are succinct, provocative biographies. Power Money Fame Sex: A User Guide is biting social criticism in the form of a user manual. She also has three terrible novels safely locked in a desk drawer. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

5. Page Alan is Canada’s Career Coach and the founder and Head Coach of CareerJoy. He is the author of Get the Right Job Right Now! , published by Harper Collins. Alan is the career expert for Workopolis and is the host of the podcast CareerJoy Conversations , where he interviews experts weekly from a wide range of fields as a forum to share their career wisdom. Alan was voted one of the Top 40 entrepreneurs under the age of 40. He is also the Trusted Advisor for careers at Chapters, Canada’s largest book chain. He works with organizations such as Alcatel and NRC, as well as with high potential individuals on career management issues. Alan loves books, running, cooking, ideas, design and a good story. He is married, has two children, one dog, four cats and some mice in his garage ... and he loves to chase them all!

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7. Page What Started Me Thinking "Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." Mark Twain. “ There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” Robert Louis Stevenson "Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things: But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Luke 10:41-42 “ Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” Simone Weil “ What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” Colette “ It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.” G. K. Chesterton “ A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.” Joseph Addison “ Best is good. Better is best.” Lisa Grunwald “ Order is Heaven’s first law.” Alexander Pope

8. Page Definition; happiness 1520s, "good fortune," from happy + ness. Meaning "pleasant and contented mental state" is from 1590s. Phrase greatest happiness for the greatest number was in Hutcheson (1725). Happy mid-14c., "lucky," from hap "chance, fortune;" sense of "very glad" first recorded late 14c. And from ead "wealth, riches" and gesælig , which has become silly. From Greek to Irish, a great majority of the European words for "happy" at first meant "lucky." An exception is Welsh, where the word used first meant "wise.” Source;Online Etymology Dictionary

9. Page Ten Myths About Happiness No. 1: Happy people are annoying and stupid. No. 2: Nothing changes a person’s happiness level much. No. 3: Venting anger relieves it. No. 4: You’ll be happier if you insist on “the best.” No. 5: A “treat” will cheer you up. No. 6: Money can’t buy happiness. No. 7: Doing “random acts of kindness” brings happiness. No. 8: You’ll be happy as soon as you… No. 9: Spending some time alone will make you feel better. No. 10: The biggest myth: It’s selfish to try to be happier .

11. Page Four Splendid Truths First: To be happier, you have to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth. Second: One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself. Third: The days are long, but the years are short. (click the link to see my one-minute movie) Fourth: You’re not happy unless you think you’re happy .

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