I’m so excited we’re on Question 3 of our members share so we can get to know each other better.
Why should you answer these questions and read the answers?
Our Optimism Survey results said that dealing with negative people was one of your biggest optimism drainers. The best way to keep your happy when dealing with unhappy people is to surround yourself with others who are like minded. Secret Society of Happy People members are some of the most positive people you’ll ever meet.
The BEST way I know to do that is to ask some fun questions over the next few weeks so you can get to know each other better and make some new happy 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.
My current buzz word is beautiful. It can mean so many things. When I say it, or hear it, it always brings a smile to my face. Have a beautiful day!
My word is Jackass…I always say its a term of endearment…we were playing categories with my cousin and her husband and the category was “Words of Endearment” and the letter was J – all four of us playing had Jackass as a word…we are all such a bunch of romantics!!
Well, at work, I took a poll and they agree that I say, “What do you want?” And as I think about that, it is true!!
I didn’t have a buzzword until you asked the question! But now my buzzword is going to be patience. I often feel like I want everything immediately, and forget that dreams and desires take time to develop and grow. When we realize our dreams we feel great joy. But realizing a dreams doesn’t start with a finished product. A dream is often a potential result. If I can be patient and not give up, I will find ways to make my dreams come true.
I like this – may i adopt it?
I like these questions; they make me think about things that usually don’t even cross my mind.
I rarely listen to myself talk, so I don’t know whether I use any buzzwords. Perhaps “Why?” ??
My buzz word has been.”Interesting” I use it to stall for time when something makes me angry-“hmm That’s interesting”
or when I don’t understand something. Interesting? I even try to make each day of my life.Interesting or to be interested in things rather than to just glide through them. “Interesting” is mindfulness, I suppose.
Now that was interesting wasn’t it.
That is easy – be happy.
That is how I sign off on all emails. I even have a shirt that a former parent had made for me that says that.
Be happy,
Victoria
I like your answer! That has always been a big theme in my life, as well: to “be happy.”
This question makes me laugh 🙂 … I’ve been online for too long – there are just so many different “buzzwords”!!
Right now my fave is “AH-mazing!!” … the NY’er in me is showing up 🙂
purrrrrrrr or purrrrrrrrrs 🙂
My favorite buzz word is Job Well Done (more than one word but that’s my favorite.
“Life is good” or “Such is life”.
I had to think about it.I choose the words I use more frequently,that I think they are positive words:GREEEAT or soo lovely,soo nice.
I asked a friend what she thought was a buzzword I used…she said “wonderful” “that’s fantastic”. I feel it is “what will be will be.”
This depends on where I’m at. My eleven year old would could tell you my buzzword at home is LOVE. I tried playing hangman with him recently while waiting at the doctor’s office and he guessed the word without even guessing any letters first. He says I say it a lot. At work, WACKADOO. 🙂 Last week I heard one of my executives use it and realized I’m rubbing off on him. Cracked me up!
Bestest is my favorite buzzword.
I say “good job” a lot… b/c I work with kids, and that’s a requirement 😉
Awesome! Overall, my life is that way, so I feel it is an easy word to use.
Love & Gratitude.
(I know that is two words, but they go hand in hand… <3 )
Hmm. I think for me, it is REAL. It’s like the cosmic tumblers have aligned to make certain things become more clear to me, and one of them is to be open, be vulnerable, be REAL. To not be afraid of what people “might” say or think… to realize I can only be me, I cannot control the thoughts or concerns of others. If I lose friends from being REAL, I have to wonder if they were friends to start. Yeah…. REAL. It keeps popping up in my life in a million ways.
Free crochet patterns and this is beautiful! I think 99% of crochet & knit patterns are wonderful! Awwww, another buzz word is wonderful! Ok. that’s enough for now.
Kindness, and Practice
Not my pig. Not my farm.
You betcha’ Though I have no idea where this came from
Happiness. My favourite buzzword. Seriuosly happy.
God is good.
Love. Was at a seminar Saturday and one speaker said, “If you want to be successful, all you have to do is love a little bit harder.” LOVE that!
PEACE is my new buzzword.
Mine is amazing. People living and breathing every day are amazing, situations and things are amazing, words are amazing. Everything we accomplish in a single day is amazing.
My favorite ‘buzzword’, eh? Hmm…
I’ll have to go with ‘Perception’ since I’m writing books that all use Perception in the title.
I have three. Amazing. Awesome. Sweet. As in sweeeeet, man! 🙂
lol! Isn’t it fun to be with people whose minds work like yours?!
hmmm, i don’t think i actually have a buzzword, but i sure say COOL !!! a lot
My buzz word is just right.
My buzzword is probably awesome! I say awesome a lot!! 🙂
Weird or Really?
JOY! I’m working on it!
I think I’ve been saying amazeballs a little too much. Also. . . So anyway. . .
My buzzword is inspire. I want to inspire and be inspired by others.
funny. everything is really funny lately.
My buzzword is “I’ll try anything as long as it’s morally, ethically and legally good.
Hrm…decrapify and it’s variations (decrapified, decrapifying, decrapification)…all ways of describing the process of getting the clutter out of my life.
Hells to the yeah. it makes me laugh to say it.
My buzzword is “awesome”! I use it to describe everything. Maybe I even “over-use” it just a little!
I don’t have one. I read and try to have a well rounded vocabulary but I don’t grab onto buzz words.
Lately I find myself saying “I’m not gonna let that bust my head” which was one of my mother’s favorites. It puts things in perspective and keeps me from dwelling on the negative.
The current buzz word in my world is SWEET
What a great question – and such fun reading the other
responses!
Hmmm… I’ve been enjoying ‘never better’ lately. it’s not completely true, but I’m hoping it will become true if I keep saying it 🙂
I don’t know if I have one!
Don’t really have one; but like peace, cool, awesome, WooHoo!
my current buzzword if I could be said to have one, is Lovely
I think mine would be Trust or Joy
“yes” and “okay”
My buzzword is….fantabulous! Okay, okay, I know it’s not a real word, but new and strange words are added to the dictionary every year because Millennials make them go viral. See? Even the term “viral” virtually has a new meaning to tag onto it’s definition now, thanks to kids, likes, and youtube. So, yes…fantabulous! Remember, Webster, you heard it here first.
Just kidding. It’s already in the dictionary. I’m going to invent a real fake word now…like scrumtrulescent.
my word is ‘alrighty then’ !
I just remembered the one I have used A LOT lately:
‘ADORBS’
Happy Happy Happy! ~ Duck Dynasty
Let go… let GOD.
Transformational!
my buss word is All is well-most of the time we spend too much time on little things that should not get us as upset as we do.
I seem to say Awesome a lot! I try to keep “gratitude” in my head a lot so that I remember often how much I have to be grateful for!
My current buzzword is “oh my”….it works with most anything!
The 4 letter f word (sorry) or stupid!
Not my circus and certainly not my monkeys
this is FANTASTIC! using it. 🙂
Hipster, because I heard someone else sayit and it resonated with me…LOL!
Current buzz word – ‘Life is GOOD”.
Agile. It is used sarcastically, especially at work when things move at a snails pace ;o)
My current buzzword is “adventure.” I just got back from an amazing two weeks in England, and each day was filled with it!
My Buzz word is One Minute Smilence
don’t stress over it
Truth! 🙂
I don’t usually use buzzwords
My buzz words this year are “living intentionally. I want everything I do to have a purpose. I don’t want to do things because someone else has pressured me. I think this will lead to a bushel of happiness!
It’s all Love
“There’s a reason for everything.”
My word in Healthy. I just finished reading a book called “One Word”. It’s about choosing one word to live by for one year instead of a lot of New Years resolutions. It was a very empowering book. Healthy can mean physically and emotionally.
Live every moment.
Lately I have had to tell myself to “breathe”! My sister & I just moved cross country and there are LOTS of boxes to go through and very little space to put anything.
My buzz phrase with my son lately is, “Asked & answered,” because he will keep bugging us about the same thing over and over. We’ve learned that when we just say that phrase instead of getting into a big discussion each time, he has stopped asking so much, because he knows he’s not going to get anything else out of us on the subject.
My word is Better! Do better, feel better, act better.
Amazing. This is an amazing time and an amazing journey that I am on. I have a great job. I am in school which is taking me on a wonderful journey and I am meeting and reconnecting with amazing people.
Happy
That’s great !
Go for it!
“Heck yeah!”
Fabulous!
Magical–I like the way it sounds and feels. Something is truly amazing, then it’s magical.
“Old is good!” We are bombarded with the idea that aging is a bad thing, but I frankly feel the opposite is true.
Fantastic! If I say it enough I begin to believe it.
For me, it’s AWESOME!
My current buzz word is WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!
I don’t know that I have a specific word, but lately I do speak of acting mindfully, with purpose. So, *mindfulness* is something I apply more readily than ever before.
“I mean”, “you know” it’s “Awesome” and “No Problem” when I avoid the overused current buzzwords “like the plague”, “y’know”…. “Not…..”
My current buzzword phrase is “you can be right or you can be happy”
I don’t really have one.
I don’t have any…..lol.
Niiiiiice, with Saaaweeet a close second, then AWEsome and inCREDible tied for 3rd – too much fun not to have more than one don’tyaknow
Gluten free. I have recently had health issues and now have to be more aware of gluten, even asking for GF menus when eating out. It is making a positive difference!!
It is what it is.
Action is my buzzword.
I’m not sure if this is a buzzword but I almost always end by saying “take care” because I think that too often we don’t take care of ourselves and that prevents us from taking care of others!
I usually don’t use buzz words 🙂
my word is “your such a good doobie”
Shake and Bake!
My current Buzz word would be “Happiness” of course =)
Smile! A Smile makes you feel better, makes others feel better and you can’t help but be happy when people smile.
Cool – and it’s an oldie!
Awesome is my buzz word! If you follow me on Facebook, you know that I’m a Red Hatter and a Black Hatter. Going to luncheons and events is my most favorite thing to do. We dress in our best outfits, hats and lotsa’ bling. There’s nothing I enjoy more than being with my Red and/or Black Hatters! We always have so much fun! I love seeing my friends dressed to the nines at events and tell them they look “awesome”!
I use cool a lot…out loud. In my head I say peace or patience or smile.
I’m not sure it ur us a buzz word, but magical comes to mind.
I say – ” OH-MY-LANTA” !!! a lot , “I LOVE YOU” at the end of every phone call and text, no matter the subject or length of the call, with every family member, ( no matter if it is 80 times that day with the same person, haha) and finally when one of “those” situations warrant it – “AREN’T YOU WAY TO BIG TO BE PLAYING IN THAT SANDBOX??? GET OUT & GROW UP CUZ I LEFT THE PLAYGROUND A LONG TIME AGO!!!” ( well, you know – sometimes you just have …. you know ??? hahaha)
Terrific!!!
boop, as in I boop your nose 🙂
My current buzzword is “awesome”!
My current buzzword is grateful. It reminds me of all that I have and how blessed I am.
Got it!!
I guess my buzzword would be the positive word I use the most lately, and that is “amazing.”
Right on! As in “Hey Cindy I did this!” “Right on!” 😀
Awesome!
Blessings
My current buzzword is “awesome”! There are so many awesome people, places, things, that I probably overuse the word, but it’s such an awesome word, I can’t help it.