New Year's Resolutions for 2011: guide to make and keep New Year's Resolutions

Dec. 23, 2010 - PRLog -- http://www.happier11.org/ is an eleven-weeks eCourse which offers strategies and tools to make and keep New Year's Resolutions. http://www.happier11.org/ is based on the book "A course in happiness, meaning, motivation, and well-being" (written by Frank Ra) which bridges Dharma, positive psychology, neuroscience and philosophy. Happier11.org guarantees that participants will be happier in 2011. Sharing New Year's Resolution with a supporting community, has been proven to be very effective in accomplishing resolutions, that is why Happier11.org has been launched now.

The course addresses questions like "What is happiness?" and "How to apply the course material to live a happier 2011?". The real learning objectives are the ones each participant commits to learn and put in practice. As mentioned on the syllabus (http://www.happier11.org/happiness_course_syllabus.pdf) the course schedule includes:

Week 1 - Introduction and Being Aware
Week 2 - Being Accepting
Week 3 - Being Meaningful
Week 4 - Being Motivated
Week 5 - Being Active
Week 6 - Being Attentive
Week 7 - Being Resilient
Week 8 - Being Respectful
Week 9 - Eating properly
Week 10 - Exercising
Week 11 - Measuring well-being, Consciousness and Science of Happiness

The first ten weeks of the eCourse, and the first eleven chapters of the book "A course in happiness" are based on AmAre, an acronym which stands for "being":
- Aware and Accepting
- Meaningful and Motivated
- Active and Attentive
- Resilient and Respectful
- Eating properly and Exercising

On Happier11.org Frank Ra says: "How can we guarantee happiness and meaning? Simple: it is part of our nature to be able to live happily and meaning-fully. Each of us can do so. If we add that, by deciding to take this course, you already shown to be willing, committed and ready about living happily and meaning-fully, we are willing to match your efforts with our guarantee of happiness and meaning, or your tuition back".

Participants, and non participants, can also benefit from reading relevant news in the field of well-being and happiness on AmAreWay.org, a free blog which hosts articles from experts (http://www.amareway.org/contact-us/about-our-bloggers/) in the field of subjective well-being, meditation, psychology, natural sciences, etc.



=== About Happier11.org ===
http://www.happier11.org/ is an eleven-weeks eCourse which offers strategies and tools to "be happier in 2011, guaranteed". It is based on the book "A course in happiness, meaning, motivation, and well-being" (written by Frank Ra) which bridges Dharma, positive psychology, neuroscience and philosophy. Happier11.org guarantees that participants will be happier in 2011.

=== About the book "A course in happiness" ===
"A course in happiness, meaning, motivation, and well-being", written by Frank Ra, is different from other well-being books, because it offers a framework which is, at the same time, coherent enough to be easily remembered and implemented, and also flexible enough to be applied in different context and aspects of life. When it comes to research about happiness and meaning, there is a balance to reach between making the topic accessible, and keeping the information accurate. Two ways the author decided to address this opportunity are using the acronym AmAre to explain what facilitate joyful living, plus to speak in terms of degrees of happiness-facilitation when it comes to external factors.

=== About  AmAreWay.org ===
http://www.amareway.org/ is devoted to living joyfully. AmAre stands for "being": Aware and Accepting; Meaningful and Motivated; Active and Attentive; Resilient and Respectful; Eating properly and Exercising. In Italian, it means "to love"; in English, interconnectedness: (I)Am (we) are.

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"a course in happiness, meaning, motivation, and well-being" is a new book which offers tools to assess one's well-being, and approaches to live a happier, purpose-driven and flourishing life