1. Change your Life without Changing your Life Heather K. Hubeny, LMSW, CEAP Employee Assistance Program Coordinator

2. Starting Where You Are

3. Starting Where You Are Set point theory – a person’s basic happiness level doesn’t fluctuate much

4. Starting Where You Are “Events that we anticipate will give us joy make us less happy than we think; things that fill us with dread will make us less unhappy, for less long, than we anticipate.” Dan Gilbert, PhD , Stumbling On Happiness

5. Starting Where You Are

6. Starting Where You Are Good News! We have some control over our own happiness levels

7. Starting Where You Are More good news: • 84% of Americans ranked themselves “very happy” or “pretty happy” in 2006 study • International Survey: Average person rates themselves a 7 on a 1-10 happiness scale