Happ-E-Newsletter for November 1, 2005

WE HAVE GREAT NEWS!!!

Ralph Waldo Emerson had said:

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Make the Happiness Decision Now!

This can be the best day for the rest of the "Best Of Your Life!"

John Barrymore said:

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!

- Kalidasa

HAPPINESS MENTORS!

Hello my dear friends! I want to express my gratitude to the individuals who are working to make this world a much happier place for everyone. Thank you to everyone who has helped bring happiness to others...thank you from my heart!

I have to begin with Jon Van Gorder. Jon runs an advertising photography studio in the Galleria Building located at 63 Unquowa Road in Fairfield. He has completely and creatively redone our Happiness Club web site. Jon has done so much work in promoting happiness sometimes I wonder if Jon is a real person or an angel. I am very fortunate to have a man like Jon who truly understands the value of happiness because he is helping to spread it worldwide.

We have the honor of having incredible people on the Happiness Club web site. People that have been doing the work of happiness mentors; some of the wonderful people you will meet are:

Dr. Robert Muller, who has served as a former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. Dr. Muller is the author of twenty-two books, including Most of All They Taught Me Happiness. He received the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 1989, the Albert Schweitzer International Prize for the Humanities in 1993 and the Eleanor Roosevelt Man of Vision Award in 1994. He was the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation World Citizen honoree for 2002. Since 1984, this Foundation has honored some of the great peace leaders of our time, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The XIVth Dalai Lama, Jacques Cousteau, and King Hussein of Jordan. In recognition of his work, Dr. Muller has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize thirty-two times. He is considered the "father of global education."

Bernie Siegel, MD, who wrote the best-selling book, Love, Medicine & Miracles in 1986. Since then he has written many books that have become very popular with people all around the world. In January of last year he wrote a book called 365 Prescriptions for the Soul, Daily Messages of Inspiration, Hope, and Love. Bernie's latest books are 101 Exercises for The Soul and Smudge Bunny, a children's book that teaches children that difficulties can become blessings. In 1978 Bernie started Exceptional Cancer Patients, a specific form of individual and group therapy utilizing patients' dreams, drawings, and images. ECaP is based on "carefrontation," a loving, safe, therapeutic confrontation, which facilitates personal change and healing.

Rabbi Zelig Pliskin who has written twenty books including the most comprehensive book on happiness I have ever read. The book is called Gateway to Happiness. I never thought I would say that one book could be the best on the subject of happiness, but I can definitely emphasize this point. The wisdom contained in Gateway to Happiness is essential for the individual seeking the happy life. As Rabbi Pliskin says, " Happiness is a skill that can be learned. The essential factor as to whether or not you will live a happy life is based on your attitudes toward life, toward yourself, toward other people, and toward events and situations."

Robert A. Nozik, MD who wrote the book, Happy 4 Life: Here's How to Do It. In this book Bob reveals all the secrets he's unearthed for getting the happiness we all dream of having, and he saves us 20 years in the process. Bob formed HaPl, Happy People, Inc., an organization dedicated to the study and celebration of happiness. He is conducting the Happiness Club Meetings in San Francisco, California with Aymee Coget, MA.

Aymee Coget, MA. who has been successfully leading the California Happiness Club since January of 2004 and has recently partnered with Dr. Nozik. Aymee has her own leadership coaching company where she uses happiness principles and strength-based techniques to aid in the leadership development of her clientele. While working with the Happiness Club, Amyee is also working on her dissertation for her PhD in Organizational Psychology. Her dissertation focuses on feminine authentic leadership development.

Richard Ellis, MD, who received his BA and MD degrees from Johns Hopkins University. In 1998 he read Dennis Prager's book, "Happiness is a Serious Problem" and became aware of the large number of people living unhappy lives. This motivated him to read a number of other books about happiness and to teach several classes about happiness at Lifetime Learners Institute at Norwalk Community College. Most recently, Dr. Ellis has taught a course called "The Wisdom Concepts" at Lifetime Learners Institute. In addition, Dr. Ellis has collected many insightful and inspiring quotes for over 20 years. Dr. Ellis also attends the Fairfield Happiness Club meetings, presents his wisdom and thoughts on happiness and selects quotes for the audience.

Lynette Anneslia Turner who is committed to helping people from all walks of life embrace a path surrounded with light and love, so that they will live a more fulfilled and positive life. She finds that attending and participating in the Fairfield Happiness Club meetings helps her continue down the happiness path. Lynette has given presentations to the club. She also has a gift of singing and writing positive music. She has inspired our audience with her voice and lyrics.

Kathy Ward who is our Ambassador of Happiness for Elders. Kathy is a Recreation Therapy Consultant and cofounder of WEL, World Elder Land™. Kathy strongly believes in, and has dedicated the last ten years of her life to, the betterment of elders and the communities they live in. Kathy is the author of "A Happy, Inclusive and Meaningful Recreation Program for Elders" and most recently "The Journal For A Better Life". She is a graduate of Florida International University, with a degree in Psychology. She is a Group Psychotherapist and National Assisted Living Administrator Certified and Recreation Therapy Consultant.

Julian Kalmar who was struck down by a serious back injury in 2002. For 3 years he spent 22 hours a day flat on his back, in pain and unable to sit. He lost his clients and his 6-figure income. Five back-surgeries later—like a phoenix arising from the ashes—he arose to find himself providing kindness and hope by teaching powerful methods for inducing deep feelings of well being. The happiness work he is now doing is amazing.

Jane Bradley who is our Canadian Ambassador of Happiness pursued a degree in Psychology at Brock University in St. Catharines because they did not have classes on Fridays. She followed up with a career counseling disturbed teenagers, both in Toronto and St. Catharines, accidentally discovering her bliss. She continued to expand her front line experiences, counseling immigrants, refugees, abused women and their children, before opening her private psychotherapy practice in 1989. Her areas of expertise include relationship issues, surviving physical and sexual abuse, overcoming addictions, managing stress, depression and eating disorders.

I also must thank Nancy Simon who runs the Fred Villari's Self-Defense Studio in the Galleria Building at 63 Unquowa Road in Fairfield. Nancy and her husband Jerry are both highly skilled black belts and caring instructors. Nancy has been an extraordinary editor. She is a constant source of help in checking for accuracy, and being of assistance in every way possible to spread happiness.

Join these happiness mentors in bringing the awareness of happiness to everyone you know and love.

Our next Happiness Club meeting will be a presentation called: "Conversations in Happiness!" by Lionel Ketchian. The meeting is Thursday, November 10, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. at the newly renovated Fairfield Public Library, in the Memorial Room at 1080 Old Post Road, Fairfield. Meet some wonderful people using happiness in their lives. Admission is free; everyone is welcome.

BE HAPPY ZONE
By Lionel Ketchian

Published in the Fairfield Citizen-News October 26, 2005

Life is complicated, happiness is simple!

Happiness Empowerment to You! LIVE RICHLY...PRACTICE HAPPINESS!

Sharing Love, Peace and Happiness with you,
Lionel Ketchian

Reminding you to make the "Happiness Decision." Giving you our Happiness Club Meeting dates, The Happiness Show, on television and on the Internet, the newest happiness information, and your latest copy of the Be Happy Zone Article's that are published every other Wednesday in the Fairfield Citizen-News. At the beginning of this newsletter you can read the latest article called:

Happiness Included, No Assembly Required!

"If you don't run your own life, someone else will." - John Atkinson

Think Smart, Look Smart, Be Smart...Be Happy!

Happy Gram E-Mail :)

Would like to receive an e-mail reminder for the Fairfield Happiness Club Meetings?

Send me your e-mail and ask for the Happy Gram E-Mail.

Happ-E-Mail :)

Hello Dear Lionel, Beautiful site and so easy to subscribe to your Happ-E-Newsletter and what a great picture of our dear founder Lionel. You worked very hard to make it sooo wonderful.

Today we read in the November 2005 National Geographic that in all countries all those interviewed for the article The Secrets of Living Longer and many were over 100 were also the happiest and not one grumpy person was found..so happiness has the pay off of a long life too.

Loving every happy word on the site..Bless your heart, Barbara Muller

Happy wife of Robert Muller, author Most of All They Taught Me Happiness

Stay happy, Barbara Muller

Happ-E-Quote :)

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa

Happ-E-Mail :)

Hello my dear friend Lionel,

The new Happiness Club website looks great. I wish you continued success in spreading happiness to many, many people all around the world. The picture of your great smile is fantastic. May we hear good news from all around our small planet. It's a relatively small place when compared with outer space. But there is a lot of challenges going on in many areas of the world. Doing what we can to spread happiness makes it a bit easier to handle the challenges.

I wish you all the best always.
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life." - Baruch Spinoza

Happ-E-Mail :)

Hi Lionel, The website looks terrific! I, in my low-tech way, put a message on it. I don't know what I'm doing technically but it seemed to take.

I had a fantastic time visiting you and feel our face-to-face brought us even closer, if that's possible. Your Fairfield Happiness Club group is filled with love and happiness and is a true reflection of who you are and your positive influence over everyone with whom you come in contact.

Our California Happiness Club meeting was great yesterday and Dale Ironson gave a wonderful description of how to use emotions for increasing vibrational energy; very reminiscent of what is posited in Power vs. Force, by David Hawkins, MD, Phd.

All my love and happiness and everything else of higher vibration to you, Bob Nozik, MD

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Charles Kingsley

Happ-E-Mail :)

Hi Lionel: Hope all is well with you and your happy in mind and spirit. I was just visiting your website and I love it...GREAT!!! It makes me happy.

I am ready to start the Happy Zone campaign in all retirement centers for elders and I am planning to send a note out this week using my blog. It will come with an article about Happiness and the biochemistry positive changes to nurture the immune system but above all the mind and soul. My goal is to visit as many retirement centers as possible and 'certify each community' as a Happy Zone place.

Perhaps in the future I could send you photos and names of retirement centers that have been certified as Happy Zones...perhaps you could add this information to your website so people would visit your website...etc.

Many blessings to you. Be happy! Kathy Ward

Happ-E-Quote :)

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." - Benjamin Disraeli

Happ-E-Mail :)

Dear Lionel, I found you on the Internet. I like your work. You also run a weekly TV show?
I plan to do so in Europe, UK, SPAIN, GERMANY. Could I see one of your shows on Video?
Maybe we could co-operate? Right now I am based in North Germany, and the South of Spain, but am into different projects, writing, TV Show and Films.

In the preparation are films to be made in LA as well, isn't it about time Hollywood became "happier", too?!!! Best wishes and kindest regards, Andrew Carson

Happ-E-Quote :)

"Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others." From Ethics for a New Millennium, by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

Happ-E-Mail :)

A great book to add to your recommended book list is Provoking Your Brilliance - Remembering your inner wisdom and moving from confusion to clarity. It is all about strategy to live and be happy. All the best, Machen

Happ-E-Quote :)

"Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." - Mark Twain

Happ-E-Mail :)

Sent to us from Jaymie Carroll

"If we focus on the rewards rather than our fears, appreciate the beautiful gifts of the world
such as love, family, friends, people, nature...see the value in tenacity...one experiences a
phenomenal life, a life that is truly lived"

Happ-E-Quote :)

"Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Norman MacEwan

Happ-E-Mail :)

or please contact me,

Happ-E-Quote :)

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." - Peyton Conway March

The Happiness Show on TV:)

Watch "The Happiness Show," every Monday night, at 9:30 - 10:00 PM. Your co-hosts are Lionel Ketchian and George Ortega. The TV show is broadcast in six towns on Cablevision of Connecticut channel 77. It airs in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Milford, Orange, Stratford and Woodbridge. Watch "The Happiness Show," every Thursday night from 9:00 - 9:30 PM on Cablevision in White Plains, New York on channel 76.

We are proud to present, at no charge, over one hundred 28 minute episodes we've taped so far in streaming audio (for 28.8 Kbps+), streaming video (for 56 Kbps+), and Select episodes in broadband streaming video (for DSL, cable, wireless and satellite) Internet connections.

HAPPINESS CLUB MEETING :)

Our next Happiness Club meeting will be a presentation called:

"Conversations in Happiness!" by Lionel Ketchian

Date :) Thursday, November 10,

Time :) 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Place :) In the newly renovated Fairfield Public Library, in the Memorial Room

Address :) 1080 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06824

Admission is free; everyone is welcome.

Meet some wonderful people using happiness in their lives.

UPCOMING HAPPINESS CLUB MEETINGS DATES :)
All Meetings will be held at the Fairfield Library

Thursday, December 8, 2005
Thursday, January 16, 2006

Directions to Fairfield Public Library
1080 Old Post Road, Fairfield, CT 06824
(diagonally across the street from the Community Movie Theatre)

Directions from the west (New York) on Connecticut Turnpike (I-95)

Take Exit 22 (Round Hill Road) Take a right at the bottom of the ramp.
Go straight, under the railroad tracks, take a right at the light onto Post Road (Rt. 1).
Take a left at the first through street, library is on your left at the corner of Post Road and Old Post Road.

Directions from the east (New Haven) on Connecticut Turnpike (I-95)

Take Exit 22 (North Benson Road) Take a left at the bottom of the ramp.
Go straight under thruway and railroad tracks, take a right at the light onto the Post Road.
Take a left at the second through street, library is on your left at the corner of the Post Road and the Old Post Road.

PARKING AT THE LIBRARY
If you are unable to park in the lot behind the Library, there are 56 parking spaces on the Old Post Road. There are 70 more on-street parking spaces within a block of the Library. There are another 62 parking spaces in the municipal lot behind Sherman Green.

Happ-E-Quote :)

"There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." - Robert Louis Stevenson

California Happiness Club Meeting :)

Next Meeting

Date: October 30, 2005
Time: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: 333 First Street 3rd floor in the Activity Room (between Folsom and Harrison)

You can use the Montgomery BART exit.

Hello Happiness Club members and those who are interested!
Guess what?! I have happy news for you!

We are honored to have Dale S. Ironson to lead our meeting on October 30th. Dale is a leadership and management consultant and a member of the Happiness Club. He writes, speaks and teaches about creativity in business, spirit at work, and new dimensions of success in organizations.

He will be speaking about understanding and dealing with your emotions so that you could be happier more often. He will guide us through a discussion and experiential activities that will show us how we can view our emotions as a natural guidance system. This will allow us to learn how to work with those emotions so that they can serve us better. Yet another happiness skill!

Please let Bob or I know you will be attending the meeting, because it helps us prepare.

Meetings are free, hope to see you! Thank you!

Happily, Aymee

Canadian Ambassador of Happiness :)

Jane Bradley is our Canadian Ambassador of Happiness.

She conducts workshops and deals with the caregiver professions.

Cheers! Jane

Happ-E-Quote :)

"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Happiness is one of the most important things in your life. Happiness is an inner state of well being. A state of well being that enables you to profit from your highest: thoughts, wisdom, intelligence, common sense, emotions, health, and spiritual values in your life. Happiness does wonders for your soul. Practice "Premeditated Happiness." Happiness is an issue of power. We give our power to others for many reasons, and we think that they will make us happy. The truth is that we have given others power over ourselves. We can take our power back in order to be happy again. Now is the time to learn to use happiness in dealing with challenges and difficult people in your life so you can develop the strength to prevail. Reading this newsletter will not just make your life better; it will make the world a better place...because you have decided to be happy!

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"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Don't let go of the vine." - John Weissmuller, from the film, Tarzan.
Life is full of opportunities. Go For It! Carpe diem!

THAT'S ALL FOLKS...NOW BE HAPPY!

© Copyright 2005, Lionel R. Ketchian, all rights reserved.