Pay Attention

What are you paying attention to? Ed Diener and Martin Seligman’s Research is cited in the book “50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology.” They studied 200 undergraduates.  The students ranked how happy they were and noted all the positive life events they had had during the short study. The researchers compared the upper 10% (happiest) with the middle and bottom 10%.  The ‘Extremely Happy’ students experienced no greater number of objectively positive life events (A’s on tests, Hot Dates, Etc).  It was just that they paid attention to those good events more!!! It reminds me of the Colette quote, “What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.” So it begs the question, what are you paying attention to in your life?