Discovering Your Optimum Happiness Index (OHI) Quotes Handbook 365Q

(A Chronology of Optimum Happiness Index (OHI) Quotes to Engage, Enlighten, and Empower Your “Pursuit of Happiness”)

THE AUTHORS’ OFFER THESE 365 QUOTES TO AWAKEN THE OPTIMUM HAPPY PERSON IN YOU

This handbook “Discovering Your Optimum ‘Happiness Index’ (OHI) Quotes Handbook 365Q” is a rich, inspirational, and chronological listing (abbreviated) of verses taken from our main book “Discovering Your Optimum ‘Happiness Index’ (OHI).” Marjorie and I began our inquiry in earnest in the year 2000 as a response to the question “What is happiness?” In the year 2015, the analysis gave birth to “Discovering Your Optimum ‘Happiness Index’ (OHI) Project.” It is our way of presenting our primary text in an innovative “reading by verses” format. Read this handbook, and you will discover the greatness of the divine creation and the awe-inspiring purpose of your existence on Earth.

This collection of 365 quotes will engage, enlighten, and empower your search for happiness. Whether you are an academic, intellectual, visionary, philosopher, or a lay-people, you will derive intrinsic benefits from these quotes. They will change the way you think about happiness, your purpose, and our shared destiny. They will engender “new” hope for human survival, informed by the vast “body of knowledge” given to us by the great biblical prophets, ancient writers, visionary leaders of yesteryear, and contemporary writers.

The postmodern world has ushered in significant advancements in fields such as religion, education, science and engineering, social sciences, and medicines. Notwithstanding these achievements, the fundamental truth of our existence has not changed over the centuries. We are interdependent beings that rely on each other for our ‘happiness nurturing,’ and our survival as a viable species.

Nations still compete unfairly and often make war over differences in ideology, religion; the quest for territory; military supremacy, and the world’s natural resources. These and other unresolved challenges of past and present centuries imperil human existence and cause great unhappiness. Marjorie and I respond to these observations from a perspective of our combined travel experiences on four continents—Africa, Europe, North America, and Oceania—approximately twelve countries, twenty-four states, and about one hundred cities, towns, and villages over several decades.

Global travel afforded us a “panoramic view” and put us on the “front lines” to observe how people in these parts of the world experience happiness and unhappiness. The observation is the same, the need for love, peace, hope, happiness, and “joy.” Whether you live in the Orient or the Occident, wealthy or poor, academic or layperson, religious or irreligious, we invite you to join us in a Global Optimum Happiness Index Movement (GOHIM) as a critical enabler in the pursuit of a better world for current and future generations.

Happiness means to discover one’s genius, which is to determine one’s highest capability, and develop it to the “Optimum.” Happiness means to understand that all people have a common desire for universal love, fairness, and justice. It means honesty and integrity, competency in business, generosity in spirit, and sharing thoughts, hopes, dreams, and aspirations. Reading this handbook will inspire hope for the twenty-first century and the new millennium. It will encourage you to life–changing actions for your betterment and the betterment of humanity. It will better inform your journey in your search for “Optimum Happiness” (OH), underpinned by “joy” — the higher Imperative of happiness.

“This handbook is a timely and relevant encapsulation of the multifaceted dynamics encountered in one’s ’search for happiness.’ Not only have the authors opened up a panorama of ways to view happiness, but their self-directed guide [in their main book] also challenges the reader to examine their personal past, present, and possible future states of happiness. Their extensive body of work speaks to individuals from all lifestyles and professions.” ― Karla A. Hutchinson-Skeete, MSEd (Educator), Current Doctoral Candidate, Decatur, Georgia, USA

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(A Self-Directed Guide to Your Happiness Index (HI) (Including Questionnaire and Self-Improvement (SI) Templates)

INSIGHT AND ACTIONABLE STRATEGIES FOR AN OPTIMUM HAPPIER EXISTENCE

What is happiness and how do I get it? There is a lot of information out there on the topic of happiness, especially as happiest nation and happiest state polls have become a bigger part of the international conversation about happiness and well-being. There is now a revolutionary resource with an insightful hypothesis supported by detailed research that analyzes what happiness is. Discovering Your Optimum “Happiness Index” (OHI): A Self-Directed Guide to Your “Happiness Index” (HI) by Errol A. Gibbs and Marjorie G. Gibbs offers interactive strategies that guide the reader towards identifying and achieving their happiness goals.

The authors offer an innovative perspective on the pursuit of happiness in a compelling narrative that profoundly addresses the questions we all have about happiness and fulfillment. A timely and relevant encapsulation of the multi-faceted dynamics encountered in one’s search for happiness, the book is destined to influence contemporary writers, researchers, visionaries, and great thinkers. “We focused our attention on events that alter human condition from perspectives of happiness and unhappiness.”

Errol A. Gibbs explains: “Events such as engagement, marriage, education, graduation or career, contribute to the social, economic and material well-being and happiness. Likewise, events such as marriage breakdown, financial failure, unemployment, or a major illness can contribute to unhappiness. Marjorie and I introduce the OHI project to the world to fill the gap in knowledge about happiness.” The authors assert that happiness is not merely a lifestyle, but that optimum happiness, underpinned by joy, is a higher value proposition for human survival, as a viable species than our typical notion of happiness.

Irrespective of your upbringing and experiences, we hope that this book will become your constant companion as you strive for Continuous Self-Improvement (CSI) and growth in areas that rob you of happiness, which is your birthright (spiritual, inherent, and constitutional). Marjorie and I have concluded from our religious teachings that happiness was central to the creation mandate, hence our “social and emotional interdependence.”

Women have a unique role to create the ecosystems (spiritual, moral, social, intellectual, and physical) that sustain “joy” and “happiness” in human lives. Women also have the capacity to empower the world through leadership in various fields of science and technology previously dominated by their male counterparts. Women lead unified by “heart” (soul) and “head” (intellect) with “empathy” and “authenticity,” and with “athletic” (physical) and “academic” (educational) prowess. Women have the capacity to imbue happiness in the lives of their partners, their children, their communities, and the world. A true measure of human progress, though, is the status of women as co-equals, co-partners, and co-owners, working together with their male counterparts to create a happier and healthier world for the present and future generations.

We also bring to the attention of readers excerpts from the works of thought leaders, philosophers, researchers, and writers who inquire about the correlation among faith, health, healing, and happiness. Institutions such as Harvard University, Harvard School of Public Health, and Mayo Clinic lead in research into the relationship between health and happiness. Likewise, researchers and professionals such as Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project, provide their relevant findings and perspectives on happiness.

“A potentially life enhancing, life changing read, “Discovering Your Optimum “Happiness Index”” is exceptionally well written, organized and presented, making it very highly recommended for personal reading lists, as well as both community and academic library, Self-Help/Self-Improvement collections.” – Julie Summers, Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

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