How's Life?

"How's life?" is the introductory phrase usually spoken with the intent there will be no answer. However, let's imagine the question is genuinely asked anticipating an honest answer: "How's life...is it happy, pleasant, good, or maybe even meaningful?"

Martin Seligman in his book, Authentic Happiness, writes of three forms of happiness:

1. Pleasant Life: a life full of positive emotion about the past, present, or future

2. Good Life: a life where you are using your "signature strengths" - those things at which you are good.

3. Meaningful Life: knowing what your highest strengths are and deploying them in the service of something larger than you are.

It's worth contemplating what type of life we want and then intentionally choosing to live it.