Peter: Excellent. And many CEOs and companies do value happiness. We just hear a lot more from the ones that don’t.

Koke: Well THAT blast from the past was embarassing :o) Let’s just say I prefer the new design too :o)

Ramanan: Thanks for the kind words and good wishes! I spoke in Indore last week and it was a blast! More here:
http://positivesharing.com/2007/12/thank-you-indore-india/

I’m sure I’ll be back in India soon. Where are you based?

Chuck & Alfredo & Scott M & Luiz & Prem: Thanks!

Office Lady: Thank you SO much for the kind words. I look forward to following your story as it unfolds. I’m sure there’s happiness at work in your future!

And yes, I blog much less now because I’m so busy with customers. I need to find a way to have time for both. I refuse to neglect blogging, because it’s so much fun and so inspiring to me!

Frank: Wow! Thanks for those words – they mean a lot to me. And yes, I believe that the journey towards happiness is a journey towards becoming more ourselves.

Adrian: Thanks! And remember happiness – the world needs waaaay more happiness consultants :o)

I really valued the Happiness at work Workbook, gave me a lot of food for thought.

I’m looking for a consultant job at the moment, and am planning to pay close attention to happiness when it comes to assessing opportunities, and then again when I actually get a job.

Hearty congratulations. I have been following your blog and enjoying it.5 years ia a significant landmark in blogging. All the very best to you.

What I love about that article was how steadfast and uncompromising the advice: If you’re not happy, quit! It’s interesting too, because I recently left a job, which by all external appearances seemed great: I was working on issues I cared about, liked most of my coworkers, and made a good living. Yesterday, I ran into a contractor who I saw in the office sometimes, and she commented how energetic I seem now compared to when I was at the job.

And that’s what I love about this blog. Your counsel is consistently holistic, focused on key elements of well-being that often seem undervalued and understressed in the workplace, school system, and culture. Your blog has the purpose of helping people to connect to what they care about and what they enjoy. It’s such a small shift in some respects, but so many people are so resistant to making it.

I find myself thinking about an interview with one of the creators and writers of the Daily Show I saw recently, where he talked about how, at events, journalists seek him out and say how much they wish they could tell things like it is the way Jon Stewart does. These are well known people reporting news on TV. And this person’s point was, you have the power, why don’t you?

So when I think of this small shift toward being happy, I also think of it as a small shift toward what inside we believe is right, and how the failure to make that shift is a failure that affects all of us. So that’s what I love about this blog. You’re talking about a small shift toward being happy–but it’s not really small, it’s enormous. And the ripples of one person making that shift are enormous, too.

I’m the lady in Hong Kong who emailed you.

Congratulations on your blog’s birthday! Yes, I have left my crappy job and crappy boss. And am now 3.5 months into my new job, after quite a bit of travelling.

I’m not gonna lie and say my new job is a blast of joy. It’s got its bad days, but I do enjoy most of it. It’s a new environment, completely different from what I did previously, so it’s a big learning curve and most of all, it’s exposed me to a world I would never experience if I had stayed in my old job.

It took me a year to leave.

Am I still scared? Yes. Do I regret leaving? Not one bit. It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Thanks to you. :)

To be honest, I read your blog less regularly now. Seems like you post less now? And have more speaking engagements perhaps. Also it seems like you present less of your own ideas now, but does a lot of links to other people’s blogs, etc. I don’t know how to explain this exactly, but I mostly prefer your old posts to the ones these days.

But hey, whatever you do, keep it up and hope people will keep visiting and maybe they’ll go “ding!” and do something about their jobs instead of sitting around complaining. :)