Making Slough Happy is made by award-winning independent production company Optomen, with prime-time programming on BBC2, transmitting in November 2005.
One of the boldest social experiments ever undertaken, this unique television event brings happiness experts from all fields & gives them just four months to make the town of Slough happy.
A fact: Although genes & upbringing influence about 50% of our happiness, circumstances (income, living environment) only affects 10%. The remaining 40% is accounted for by our outlook on life, something we all have the power to change for the better.
A simple happiness exercise: keep a diary & once a week write in it things for which you are thankful over the past week. Thats it. This is a simple but highly effective technique people who did it over 6 weeks reported a significant increase in their sense of happiness & satisfaction.
Published against the series, How to be Happy combines the very latest research with advice & exercises from the experts to give you the truth about happiness & practical ways to increase your own happiness"a.