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Happiness is an active choice. Happiness lies in small things. Happiness is most real when it's shared with others. To achieve happiness, it helps to appreciate and accept uncertainty." Dmitry Golubnichy, Can You Be Happy for 100 Days in a Row? "Get free stuff everyday! In my Bio"

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100 Happy Days | Dmitry Golubnichy | TEDxZurich

http://100happydays.com/

"Every moment you get is a gift.  Spend it on things that matter.  Don't spend it by dwelling on unhappy things."   Celestine Chua

   I chose the 100 Happy Days Challenge as my viral challenge.  The 100 Happy Day Challenge interested me in that it worked to challenge people to be happier in their outlook in their lives.  If a person worked to complete this challenge they could maybe incorporate happiness in their lives long term thus making them happier people which in turn could make our world a happier place to live and work. 

The challenge was started by Dmitry Golubnichy in the Fall of 2013 as he was trying to help himself find happiness in his own life.  After a visit with childhood friends in his hometown, he realized that if his friends could be happy with their "normal" lives he could be happy with his life.  So he made a vow to himself to find one thing to be happy with in his life for one hundred days in a row.  He decided to make his challenge public by sharing his posts on social media using the hashtag #100HAPPYDAYS.  After about a dozen days on the challenge, his friends reached out to him wanting information about the challenge and wanted to try the challenge themselves.  Then on December 30, 2013, Dmitry launched the 100 Happy Days Challenge website and on that one night three thousand (3000) people signed up to start the challenge.  Since the launch of the website, over eight million (8,000,000) people from one hundred and sixty (160) countries around the world have signed up to take the challenge.  The website claims that 71% of the people that have attempted the 100 Happy Days Challenge were unable to finish the challenge due to the lack of time being the main reason.

Participants are asked to submit a picture of what made them happy on that particular day on the social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with the public hashtag #100HAPPYDAYS.  You could also come up with your own hashtag to share your happy moments for limited publicity, but still informing the website or you could just end your pictures directly to the website's email.  The picture could be of anything that made you happy that day whether it was an event, a food, or an experience.

The 100 Happy Day Challenge claims that people who successfully completed the challenge started to notice what made them happy each day, were in a better mood, became more optimistic, received more compliments from others for their positive attitude, realized how lucky they had it in their own lives, and some even fell in love during the challenge.  The 100 Happy Day Challenge will also give you a set of prints with all of your 100 Happy Days when you complete the challenge.

There are books written on how to increase one's happiness along with published secrets and keys to finding happiness.  This has spurned an increase in the positive psychology movement.  Research that has been completed on happiness has found that we control about half of our happiness level while the rest is determined by genetics and/or our environment.  So we can partially control whether we are happy or not by our own attitudes.  Research also has found that money will not buy happiness.  Relationships and strong social connections with others is also a major component in determining happiness.  If you focus on experiences instead of collecting stuff you will improve your chances at finding happiness. ( https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/04/10/5-reliable-findings-from-happiness-research/)

Further research has discovered certain things that are connected to happiness in people.  First, kindness is contagious and it spreads happiness to the recipient, the person being kind, and other who witness the act of kindness.  Second, positive affirmation works when it is genuine.  Third, people are happy when they appreciate what they already have.  Fourth, getting more sleep helps people remain happy as well as grateful people sleep better than ungrateful people.  Fifth, having friends who provide social support encourages happiness.  Sixth, laughter can lower your stress level and add to you being happy.  Seventh, being happy helps you be more resilient when facing a challenge in your life.  Finally, positive emotions can help people have a more satisfying life.  ( https://www.verywell.com/happiness-research-3144988)

In 2016, Dmitry Golubnichy gave a speech at TEDx Zurich.  He spoke on how he was living a goal-oriented life that was not making him happy.  He only knew how to complain about the things he did not have or things he did not yet accomplish.  He started his search for personal happiness trying to see the beauty in his own life and trying to make this a part of his daily routine.  He struggled at the beginning of his personal challenge to be happy for 100 days in a row.  In the end, he had found out what truly made him happy.  In starting the website, 100HappyDays.com, he promotes happiness as a lifestyle working to have a positive impact on other's lives through our own happiness. 

I think that this challenge can help a person who struggles in their day to day lives with being happy.  If you are able to focus on just one thing that made you happy on that particular day, you could be able to change your attitude, if just for a moment, to a positive one.  When you take a photograph of your daily happy moment, you are cementing that moment in your memory and are able to go back and view that moment in the future.  As this process progresses day by day, you can start to catalog the things that truly make you happy and those moments begin to increase in your mind allowing for your attitude to start to change positively.  Eventually you could start to impact others around you in your daily life being a positive influence encouraging them to seek more happiness in their lives.

So the questions to ask ourselves is, can looking for the happiness in our daily lives change our attitudes from negative to positive ones?  Can this challenge enable you to live a life filled with more happiness?  The only way you will ever know if the challenge is able to accomplish the answers to these questions is to try it for ourselves.  So go out today and start the 100 happy Days Challenge and look for those happy moments in your own lives.

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H@ppy ( #100HappyDays )

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H@ppy ( #100HappyDays )

Now and then in our pursuit of happiness, it’s good to just pause and be happy. I saw that quote as a Facebook status once and smiled. For no reason in particular, reading it caused me to stop what I was doing in that moment, look around and focus on one thing surrounding me that made me smile. Today, I can’t even tell you what that one thing was. The thing that made me smile. But I can tell you that just like every chain reaction, all it took was one small motion (conscious thought in action) that caused a chain reaction.

I see several people creating links to a happiness chain reaction. When Pharrell encourages people to clap along with him, it’s hard not to get swept up in his Happy anthem. But even better, creating a 24hoursofhappy.com website that anyone can click on for a happiness boost, is genius.

Today, I saw people on Twitter signing up for a #100HappyDays challenge.

We live in times when super-busy schedules have become something to boast about. While the speed of life increases, there is less and less time to enjoy the moment that you are in. The ability to appreciate the moment, the environment and yourself in it, isthe base for the bridge towards long term happiness of any human being.

71% of people tried to complete this challenge, but failed quoting lack of time as the main reason.These people simply did not have time to be happy. Do you?

I am especially enjoying seeing these waves of happiness going viral via social media. Many of us can’t seem to escape the influence of the world wide web, so it is refreshing to see that we can create positive imagery for us to access whenever we want.

One of the feminine tools of power that I learned is the “power of the pause”.  It’s the split second that I use to focus my energy on the lower part of my body, breathe and gather my thoughts.  The pause can be used before speaking in groups, communicating with people and even walking into a room.  But more importantly in this post,the pause can be used for “happy time”.   Stop doing, stop thinking, stop chasing and just be…HAPPY.

On the internet, the “@” symbol is used to denote an address. Let’s take time to park ourselves at H@PPY.