"Happiness is a decision." by Lionel R. Ketchian
as quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations. In the book: Food for Thought published in 1989
and quoted in The New York Times article on April 17, 2005.
Watch: THS 79. Happiness Decision by Lionel Ketchian - YouTube
"And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determine whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner Freedom; which determine whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become molded into the form of the typical inmate."
"...in the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone. Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what will become of him - mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human dignity even in a concentration camp."
- Viktor Frankl from Man's Search For Meaning
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Happy U - Free Classes!
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Lionel Ketchian
Monday, February 24th, 2025
Time: 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET.
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Happy U is the Happiness School of
Continuing Higher Education by Lionel Ketchian
IT’S NOT WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY, IT’S WHAT YOU ALLOW YOURSELF TO LOSE YOUR HAPPINESS TO.
YOU WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO LEARN TO KEEP YOUR HAPPINESS NO MATTER WHAT.
HAPPINESS IS A LANGUAGE YOU CAN LEARN IN ORDER TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOURSELF AND OTHERS.
IT’S ALL ABOUT HAPPINESS!
“Happiness is an inner state of well-being that enables you to profit from your highest thoughts, intelligence, wisdom, awareness, common sense, emotions, health, and spiritual values.” – Lionel Ketchian
YOU CAN BE HAPPY RIGHT NOW AND FOR EVERY MOMENT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
Being Happy is the most powerful skill you can learn.
Happiness empowers greater insight in each of us to further a collective vision of world peace.
Happiness is power!
Stop giving your power away.
Happiness becomes you!
Your reasons to take part in this course.
You will be better able to:
Become a happier person.
Become a better person.
Improve the management of your emotions.
Become more emotionally competent.
Learn new problem solving tools and techniques.
Eliminate half your problems.
Increase your intelligence.
Feel more positive emotions in your life.
Become resilient.
Learn to heal.
Become peaceful.
Enjoy sustainable happiness for a consistent life.
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POWER LUNCH IN PERSON MEETING
FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH!
Wednesday, March 5th, 2025
MEET EAT & GREET! Join us for monthly meetings to gather and eat together and discuss tools, techniques and ways to free ourselves from many of life's problems and challenges. We discuss the concepts that will empower you and benefit one another.
First Wednesday each month, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (come when you can, leave when you like.)
Meeting Place: Osaka Hibachi Buffet (Chinese Buffet) 955 Ferry Blvd, Stratford, CT 06614 (The Dock Shopping Center)
Cost: $16.00 for lunch and $15.00 for seniors.
Price includes tax and tips.
Happiness Club meets in the party room!
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Hartford Zoom Happiness Club Meeting
Choose Happiness!
Jeffrey Zahn, MD,
How to Transform Without Changing, Fixing, or Improving Yourself!
Hartford Happiness Club
Thursday, February 27th
7:00 - 8:30 PM Eastern Time
Zoom Meeting
ID: 832 7439 0958
Password: Happy
Click the Zoom link to join the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83274390958?pwd=OG1VclhmTWgvbDM2Y09KZG1BUGk4dz09
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Choosing Happiness – A Primer on Practical Perspectivism,
Being a Perspectivist, and Living Perspectively
Our time will first cover happiness and perspectivism in general, and then we’ll explore how Practical Perspectivism can aid us in finding sustainable happiness for ourselves in our daily lives. We’ll investigate how mindfulness is integral to living Perspectively, and why being a Perspectivist is one of the best things we can do for ourselves as well as all those around us. Through a little mindfulness practice, perspectival reflection, and conversation, it is my hope to leave the group with tools to enhance their happiness in a sensible manner.
BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey Zahn, MD is a Qualified MBSR Instructor through Brown University. I n 2014 he published Choose Happiness! A Guide to Practical Perspectivism and Happy Daily Living, describing Practical Perspectivism, an applied philosophy declaring we each have the capacity to choose, and are responsible for, our own emotional state. Dr. Zahn also is a former Mount Sinai Obstetric Anesthesiologist and current System Vice Chair for Physician Well-being in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science at the Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai in New York City.
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We are also meeting in person.
Please note the venue:
Tumble Brook Country Club
367 Simsbury Road
Bloomfield, CT 06002
Audrey Carlson is the facilitator
of the Hartford Happiness Club.
Email: audreyabc77@gmail.com
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Zoom Happiness Club Meeting
Happiness!
Lionel Ketchian
Thursday, February 20th, 2025
7:00 - 8:30 PM Eastern Time
Click the Zoom link below to join the meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83274390958?pwd=OG1VclhmTWgvbDM2Y09KZG1BUGk4dz09
Meeting ID:832 7439 0958
Password: Happy
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Betty is on the right.
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Helen LaKelly Hunt, Ph.D. & Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.