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	<title>Better Relationships &#187; charater strength</title>
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		<title>Finding Happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2016 23:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Swaniger]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people seek a life filled with meaning, contentment, gratification, and pleasure. We strive to reach society&#8217;s milestones of success &#8211; a college graduation; marriage; family; job promotion; buying a home – but these achievements don’t always bring us the happiness we expected. And although we&#8217;re successful by world standards &#8211; able to drive nice cars, live in large, clean houses, and have access to entertainment – many of us still experience higher levels of stress. Pushing ourselves to achieve &#8216;bigger and better&#8217;, we reach another goal only to find that it too doesn&#8217;t bring us the happiness we hoped for. We discover that money doesn&#8217;t buy us the happiness we thought it could. Sometimes this cycle leaves us feeling just the opposite &#8211; depressed or anxious or angry. However, recent research has focused on how a person can work toward a happier life. Identifying Your Personal Strengths Martin Seligman and his associates at the University of Pennsylvania base ‘Positive Psychology’ on years of research into what makes people happy.  They have concluded that happiness is an internal experience based on staying true to one’s genuine or authentic self.  In other words, when we can use our strongest abilities, or “signature strengths”, we have a chance to feel genuinely happy. They have identified the following twenty-four signature strengths that are found in cultures across the world. Identify the two or three that suit you best. To work toward authentic happiness, try to see how you can incorporate these strengths into your daily life experiences. 1.    Curiosity / Interest in the World. Curiosity suggests being open to experience and flexibility in dealing with ideas that do not fit your preconceived notions about the world. Curious people not only tolerate ambiguity well, but they seek it out and are attracted by it. Curiosity implies an active involvement in learning about new information, not just a passive interest in new things, and it is the opposite of being bored. 2.    Love of Learning. This strength refers to the strong enjoyment of learning new things, and it implies that you seek out learning wherever [&#8230;]]]></description>
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