We’re on Question 5 of our members share so we can get to know each other better.
Why should you answer these questions and read the answers?
We learned in our Optimism Survey dealing with negative people was one of your biggest optimism drainers. Surrounding yourself with more positive people — or not-so-secretly happy people — is one of the best ways to counter unhappy people. Secret Society of Happy People members are some of the happiest people you’ll ever meet.
Therefore I think we need to make an effort to get to know each other better. Over the next few weeks we’re going to ask some fun questions so you can get to know each other better. Also, if you need a happiness booster read each others responses — who knows you might make a few new friends.
And, to make this an even HAPPIER experience, everyone who answers all of the questions will get a present from me!
You can answer the questions until we quit asking them:
I’m so excited to learn more about everyone!!
Written by Pamela Gail
Pamela Gail Johnson founded the Society of Happy People in 1998.
The Society is grounded on Pamela’s four key Practical Happiness Principles:
Pamela identified 31 Types of Happiness that are on the SOHP App Happiness Counter to make it easier to recognize moments of happiness.
Pamela also plans and organizes the Society of Happy People's annual happiness celebrations:
She's also a speaker, trainer, and author.
A few of her personal smile starters include her monthly book club, yoga, traveling and meeting new happy people.
WOW, if only! Maybe fly or be able to know for sure if someone is being truthful w/ me.
I would definitely want to fly or be able to transport myself instantly so that I could travel all over the world.
If I could have a superpower, I would like to be able to get the kids to behave all the time 🙂
Now THAT is a superpower!
I would like to have the power to do good wherever it was most needed without peril to my person or others.
I want to be like Bewitched. I want to be able to wiggle my nose, close my eyes and be where I need to be. I hate travelling because it frequently makes me feel ill, plus I always feel rushed. This way I could simply wiggle my nose and be at the grocery store; wiggle my nose and be on vacation far, far away; etc. Wouldn’t that be cool??
Sure would surprise the other people in the grocery store. 😀
Reading peoples minds so I would know what the really mean.
Lately I’ve been reading Nelson Mandella’s autobiography LONG WALK TO FREEDOM in hopes of understanding how he dealt with stress. I’d like to have what I envision as Nelson’s brave and calming demeanor.
Hmmm… a super power. I think I’d like to be able to slow everything down, or move faster. It’d be nice to have everything move in slow motion while I moved at regular speed or faster. Oh, the things I’d get done.
I’d like to be able to change myself into another form, like a tree or an ant or a bird or a fish.
This would allow me to see all kinds of interesting things from a different angle, and to learn what these creatures really experience.
It would also make me the world’s best private eye, or worst possible stalker.
And, I could sneak up on people and giggle into their ears and drive them crazy.
I would like to be able to prevent an accident from happening…like stopping a car from hitting another one, or helping someone to regain their balance instead of falling down. Maybe it is somehow similar to a school crossing guard telling the kids to wait for the traffic to clear before it is time for them to cross the street. (Does this thought give away my age? : )Loved the bewitched wish, too…
I love this superpower. It would be great to be able to prevent car accidents.
Either flight or invisibility – I can never decide which! Flight would be so much fun, but invisibility would make spying so much easier… and if you need superpowers, you probably need to spy!
My preferred superpower would be superhuman strength, not only so that I would be able to help people when I saw them having troubles but also so that I could open the little bags of peanuts they give to me on airplanes (which I used to open with my penknife, until they took it away from me).
I would love to have the power of instant travel. I could then just pop in on friends and family who live far away.Special occasions wouldn’t get missed and memories could get made everyday.
Does anyone remember “The Girl, The Gold Watch, and Everything”? That’s what I’d want – power to control time.
Flying would sure be number 1. But being able to walk through walls and other solid objects would be an acceptable second choice. 🙂
Fly, fly, fly! I love the feeling of soaring! When I was little, I adored swinging on a swingset. It was a magical feeling. Heck, it still is! If I could fly, I’d fly everywhere! There’s so much I could do if I had that power.
I would have the power to be fit, healty and NOT overweight without having to TRY so hard!!!
Wouldn’t we all love this superpower 🙂
I would love that superpower!
being able to clean my house by blinking my eyes. ZAP!
The ability to turn hate into happiness!
I’d like to be able to fly, be invisible, heal and create world peace. Oh and end hunger and poverty. Or/and have everyone be happy. Not asking for much am I.
I would want the kind of power that would affect the whole world – the power to end war and suffering of all ~ yup….that’s what I would want.
besides flying-that’s the physical i would like to have people think before they speak–really think so as to be more kind 🙂
My super power would to bi-locate so I could visit family and friends easily.
To be able to fly and not in an airplane.
to teleport around town as I desire.
Become a better crafter – more patience so I could quilt, knit and crochet fancy items.
The ability to tele-port (like having a Star Trek transporter). Think of the gas I’d save – versus my hour-long commute to work. And I’d never be late for anything ever.
Fly. I live in the worst traffic area in the universe. I would do so much more if it didn’t require me getting up at 4 am or getting home after midnight.
Without a doubt, some form of instant healing.
ohhhh. i want to steal so many of what some of the others have said. i like the “bewitched” one. i like the one about being able to do good without peril to others. i’d like to fly. i don’t know that i could choose just one. maybe the best superpower would be the ability to shift superpowers at will? 🙂
I’d love to be able to fly and land safely!
If I could have a super power, hmmm, do they have one for losing weight? I would grab that one as fast as I could. If they are out of that one, and who are “they” anyway, I would opt for power to make all countries be at peace. That would be amazing and I wouldn’t mind having to diet to get my lbs off.
to fix things – someone said it already, but to be like Jeanie of I dream of Jeanie or Bewitched. I would end poverty as my first fix, forget my housework.
I would take care of all the children waiting for a home and a hug.
The ability to make others see what gifts they’ve been blessed with.
I really like this. What a wonderful power that would be and how many happy people would you empower.
I would like to have super energy and the ability to get things done!
The one we all have, only amplified and without fear filters: The ability to heal anyone – myself included with my thoughts and intentions.
If I had a superpower, I would want to be able to make everything neat and tidy all on it’s own instead of me having to actually clean. Maybe I could stretch that into all areas of my life – my work would do itself, dinner would cook itself, the dishes would clean themselves, food would buy itself and automatically appear in my fridge & pantry, etc. 🙂
it would definitely be flying.
I need a cape, a tiara, and a magic wand to be able to fix life crises.
Either being able to wish to be somewhere and then be there. Or to know what people need and be able to give it to them.
Flying!
Invisibility. I’m very nosy. 🙂
The ability to cure all illness, mental and physical.
Healing- I dislike people suffering.
I would like to be able to show people how beautiful they really are. We are all these amazing beautiful miracles. I would love it if everyone could see that they and everyone else is absolutely gorgeous!!!
I would like to blink and be wherever I wanted to go.
Flying or teleportation so that I could avoid the daily commute time and reclaim that time to do something I love.
If I could have a super power, if would be to be able to fly!!! I think this would be so much fun!!!
I think it would be cool to teleport anywhere instantaneously…..I could see all my family and friends around the world, get to every performance that sounded interesting, visit all the beaches I have on my list, be a helping hand to people who are more stationary.
The patience of a saint — that sounds pretty super to me!
If I could have a supper power It would be to heal.
I would want to fly!
To ease the suffering in the world.
cancer-eliminator…. just may cause lots of unemployment in multiple areas least expected, but i could live with that
My superpower would be to have a patient, honest, timely answer for every “WHY , How, ….question that I have been asked.
No procrastination woman.
The power to heal people who have been injured or who are ill.
The super power of being able to heal injured or sick people.
Healing, for others and myself.
Read a book at a glance … I have so many books on my list!
be able to twitch my nose and make things right in the world
You know what would be really cool? To help people see the beauty and strength in themselves…… yeah, that would be a really cool, awesome superpower. That would be a good one for which to wish.
The ability to bring about world peace. So many issues would go away if we had world peace.
I’d like some way to touch the brains of all the people in the world and erase whatever it is that makes them harm other people and animals.
If I could have a Super Power I think I would want the ability to bring Peace and Happiness to those around me.
I would make sure everyone had a safe and happy home.
To be two places at once!
I would love to have the super powers of ridding the world of unhappiness, i.e. peace, health, no money problems, friendships, family, and whatever it would take to make everyone happy! 😉
Super powers…I’ve dreamt of flying since I was a kid. I’d also like to be invisible. But that’s not important like it was in childhood. Maybe mind reading. Also, there’s the creating world peace thing (I ask for that for my birthday gifts and now my kids tell me not to ask for it). Also, while we’re at it, let’s feed the hungry, find homes for the homeless, and let’s end poverty too. And heal the sick.
I would be able read minds, all minds.
To heal myself, ( I have Fibromyalgia), and to heal others with diseases that are invisible to the naked eye and who have been suffering in silence!!! or the ability to be like “bewitched” hahaha
I would like to be able to see the future!
I have read all these comments and agree with all of them, but I think I would like my superpower to be able to give hope to the hopeless.
to fly
My superpower would be to help everyone love their self.
Hmmm… So many great super powers to choose from! I think flying would be awesome. Or the ability to stop the world while I do something – or back up and re-do something better 🙂
I’d love the ability to calm the people around me. Especially while driving…
What a great question!! Wow!!
I would create a way to have more superpowers..
I would like to have a “super power” of self-discipline and focus, so that I could accomplish what I need to do more easily and in a shorter time period. If I could do that, I’d have so much more time to spend bringing happiness into the world.
I want the superpower of being able to eat all the chocolate I want and stay skinny! LOL Okay…maybe that more of a medical thing than a superpower, but if that was true, it sure would be SUPER, and so that is my vote.
Read minds! No, wait, fly! No, invisibility! No, wait, maybe the ability to make up my mind!
Visit loved ones in heaven~
My superpower would be the ability to heal or remove people’s hurts and resentments. I’d shoot an invisible ray directly into their hearts so those feelings would melt away, never to be remembered.