Ifyou're an American and you're frustrated with your job, your relationships,maybe the amount of hair on your head; or if you're looking to get ahead inbusiness or want to make a fortune in real estate or the stock market; or ifyou want to improve your memory or better manage your time or learn newcomputer skills, somewhere there's a conference or seminar or retreat foryou. Experts and speakers, who can beas famous as Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will be there to helpyou ? for a fee.
Seminartopics can range from the very broad, such as Inner Peace, to the veryspecific, such as Powerful Communication Skills for Women.
Forsheer ambitiousness, it's hard to top a conference that's coming up in SanFrancisco in November. It's titled Happinessand Its Causes, and who doesn't want to be happy? Over four days, 40 of what the program promises will be the bestminds in psychology, philosophy, science, education, business, the arts,medicine, and politics will explore techniques for achieving happiness.
Inworkshops such as No Regrets: Advice for Living and Dying, Laughing with theDalai Lama, and even Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, participants will exploreconflict resolution, raising happy kids, and wringing happiness out of livingand even dying.
Fourdays of happiness training will cost each attendee $795.
Unfortunately,one problem commonly reported by participants in motivational andself-improvement seminars is that they leave all fired up and ready to change,only to slowly slide back into old habits and routines. That would make a great post-seminarworkshop. It could be called, How toMake the Feeling Last!