​One reason why the happiness level in America has been declining so much is the existence of quite a number of happiness myths that exist in our society. Happiness myths are beliefs about happiness - about what it is and how to increase and sustain it that we have been taught, often since childhood that just don’t work or don’t create the meaningful and sustainable happiness that we have been taught to believe that they will. They also include the belief that if certain things happen to us- such as a divorce, job loss or going broke that we can't be deeply happy as we work to change the situation when the reality is that we definitely can. We all have probably identified some of these happiness myths but some that research in Positive Psychology have found will really surprise you. Because we can buy into these myths we can end up experiencing significantly less happiness in life than we could. In this program we will explore the happiness myths in our society as well as what research in Positive Psychology has found really does increase and sustain meaningful and authentic happiness and well being, motivation and results in our personal life and self identity, emotional well being, in our relationships, in school, work and in all of the essentiakl areas of life. and learn to apply and, reinforce these things day by day a little each day and turn them into habits in our lives- a part of who we are.