More of What You Want.
Fun, Defined
I have read what seems like countless articles and books on the topic of Happiness. While I will always strive to be more happy, I can pretty much say after a dozen years studying it, I'm an expert on the topic.
Make no mistake, however, I have my fair share of being a complete asshole. I chalk it up to human emotions and my simply being a normal human being.
It's that Duality thing. While I love to think that we can all be happy all the time, that's not realistic. Everybody must be assholes every once in awhile.One of the curious things that I have found is that most books, articles and research discusses happiness at face value and leaves it at that. Find your happiness, and simply be done with it. End of story. Nothing wrong with that.
But, I've decided to take the whole happiness thing to a next level by leveraging it to get more of what you want. If happiness is what you're looking for, then being happy is probably the best way to get more of it. Happiness tends to feed itself. Happiness not only brings you greater happiness, but it brings you more of it. For the mathematicians out there, it's not linear; It's more exponential if anything. And, greater happiness fills the emotions so discontent or unhappiness have no place to live.
But what about the other elements of life? Aside from that which happiness generally provides such as contentment and satisfaction and joy, can it bring you anything else. Can it bring you wealth? Can it increase your professional mobility? Can it influence the quality of your personal and professional relationships? While the answers to these seem obvious, there is scientific and psychological evidence validating the value that happiness provides greater opportunities across virtually all dimensions of people's lives.
It's important now to discuss happiness in the greater context of how it is conveyed and exposed. Specifically, what behavior does a happy person convey? This is a fairly difficult question to answer the more you try to break it apart. If a happy person is more content or satisfied, are you able to tell by looking at them or talking to them? For the most part, if you ask people if they were happy, unless there's something seriously going on in their lives, most will say they are. How is authentic happiness expressed? The words most used to define the expression of happiness are joy and positivity. However, if I see somebody who is joyful or outwardly positive, it's probably clear that they are happy people, but I don't immediately think, "My goodness. That person sure is happy." And, while they may behave in such a way, I don't immediately consider them joyful or positive.
In the context of the The Fun Factor endeavor to market happiness as a means to create more personal and professional success, the word "fun" best describes a person who conveys positivity, joy, contentment, satisfaction, happiness. These people are fun to be around. As fun is defined, they are pleasurable, enjoyable and pleasing to be around. In other words, a Positive Human Experience, or PHE.
We're very much close to an essential key at this point. First, there's the issue of being happy in the first place. The five Fun Factor essentials define the attributes of a fun person. Then, there's using The Fun Factor in an intentional way to authentically market the qualities that make a fun human being.
There's a big difference between having fun and being fun. The former is generally easy to do and short-lived. The latter can create significantly rewarding world for you and those you touch.