Seven Paths to Happiness (and Two Dead Ends): Strategies for Your Life and Career
1h 5mGeneral2025-02-10
Authors
Chris Croft
Lecturer, Thought Leader, Project Management, Leadership
CRFT Productions
Full-Service Learning Content Company
Course details
Choosing the right path for your career and life can be one of the most impactful decisions you make. In this course, Chris Croft explores the seven distinct paths to happiness, each with its own set of advantages and challenges. Whether aiming for corporate success, launching a business, or pursuing a passion, this course provides valuable insights into how different paths align with individual personalities, skills, and aspirations. Chris looks in-depth at topics such as the trade-offs of financial-driven goals, the pursuit of a vocation, and how to find balance in multi-harvesting or niche careers.
Skills covered
Talent ManagementWell-Being and Self-CareHuman ResourcesLimited SeriesProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and Management
Concepts
Introduction
- The seven paths to happiness
The Meaning of Life
- Making choices and planning your life
- Being happy in life
Path 1 - Maximum Fun Until It Runs Out
- Maximum fun until it runs out
- Pros and cons of maximizing fun
- Tips to get the best from maximizing fun
Dead End 1 - Easy Life at Work
- What's wrong with an easy life at work
Path 2 - Steadily Up the Mountain
- Steadily up the mountain
- Pitfalls of steadily going up the mountain
- How to maximize the chance of succeeding in corporate life
- How do you jam tomorrow
- People climbing the mountain might suit
Path 3 - One Big Plan with Delayed Gratification
- Having one big plan with delayed gratification
- The pros and cons of having one big plan
- What to consider before having one big plan
- Tips for building your own business
- People who having one big plan might suit
Dead End 2 - Starting with the Money
- What's wrong with thinking about money
- Why money won't make you happy
Path 4 - Find Your Vocation
- Finding your vocation
- Pros and cons of vocations
Path 5 - Get Into a Niche
- Getting into a niche
- Potential problems with getting into a niche
- Tips to maximize the success in your niche
- People who finding a niche path might suit
Path 6 - Multi-Harvesting
- What is multi-harvesting and does it work
- Variety in multi-harvesting
- How to maximize the success of multi-harvesting
Path 7 - Search for Your Ikigai
- What is an ikigai
- Tips to maximize the success of finding your ikigai
- Pitfalls of finding your ikigai
How to Choose the Right Path for You
- The matrix of life path factors
- Personality type affecting your choice of path
- Venn diagram of following life paths
- Flow chart of life paths to help you decide
Combinations of Paths
- Following one life path then another
- Following two life paths at once
Conclusion
- Some final questions to help you think about life paths
- Following the seven paths to happiness