Celebrate the Secret Society of Happy People's 10th Annual Hunt for Happiness Week by Hunting for the Happiest Person

    DALLAS, TX, January 13, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Celebrate the 10th Annual HUNT FOR HAPPINESS WEEK: January 16 - 22, 2011 & Hunt for the Happiest Person

The Secret Society of Happy People will celebrate the 10th Annual Hunt for Happiness Week beginning January 16, 2011. The purpose of the week is to encourage people to actively seek happy moments.

The Secret Society of Happy People for the first time is also hunting for the Happiest Person and will present them with an official Secret Society of Happy People Happiest Person Medal and Certificate plus other Society stuff. Nominations can be made at www.sohp.com.

To help people recognize the diversity of happiness the Society has identified the Thirty-One Types of Happiness:

Amazed
Amused
Anticipation
Borrowed
Celebrate
Cheerful
Compassion
Content
Delight
Enthusiastic
Exuberant
Fun
Give
Glad
Gratitude
Hopeful
Humor
Inspiration
Joy
Love
Nostalgic
Optimistic
Peace
Play
Relief
Satisfaction
Spiritual
Spontaneous
Surprise
Sweet
Vivacious

The Society's website has I-Spy Happy Moment Coupons, a Types of Happiness Word Search, and other celebration suggestions.

"It's nice when happiness easily shows up, but sometimes we have to hunt for happiness. That seems evident by the fact that this years Hunt of Happiness Week coincides with the saddest day of the year, January 17th, according to Dan Kruger, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Michigan." says Society Founder Pamela Gail Johnson. "We're also very excited about hunting for and finding the happiest person, because sometimes the quickest way to find happiness is by being around a happy person."

Facebook: www.facebook.com/happysociety
Twitter: www.twitter.com/SOHP_com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/pamelagailjohnson
LindedIn Secret Society of Happy Professionals: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3230104
Secret Society of Happy People Highlights

Pamela is available for day and evening interviews.

CONTACT: Pamela Gail Johnson
972-459-7031 / 469-358-3914 (cell)
[email protected]

Founded: August 1998

Purpose: The Secret Society of Happy People encourages the expression of happiness and discourages parade-raining. Parade-rainers are those people who don't want to hear your happy news. And no, we don't tell people to be happy if they aren't or how to be happy.

Mottos: If you're happy and you know it ... tell somebody!
If someone else is happy and they know it...listen!

Members: Thousands from around the world in more than 34 countries

History: The Society gained international recognition in December 1998 when it challenged Ann Landers for discouraging people from writing happy holiday newsletters to enclose with their holiday cards.

Since then the Society has:
- announced the Happiest Events and Moments of 1998-2010
- identified the Thirty-one Types of Happiness
- declared August and August 8th as Happiness Happens Month & Day
- nineteen governors sent proclamations in 1998
- organized HappyThon, the first online social media event to promote happiness on August 1, 2009 & 2010
- organized voting for the Happiest Events, Inventions and Social Changes of the Century
- declared January 16 - 22, 2011 as the tenth Hunt for Happiness Week
- seven governors sent proclamations in 2006

The Society has been featured in People Magazine, Newsweek and Time, and has been included in stories in Reader's Digest, Prevention, Ladies Home Journal, Harpers, Yoga Journal, SELF, Redbook, Glamour, and New Age Journal. Founder Pamela Gail Johnson was on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.

Hundreds of print and broadcast outlets throughout the world have covered the Society, including CNN, The Associated Press, USA Today, Good Morning America (ABC), The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and Los Angeles Times. Parade named the Happiest Events, Inventions and Social Changes of the Century as the "Best List of the Century."

A few websites that have linked to the Society include: Beliefnet.com, Good Housekeeping, DailyInBox.com, and USA Today.com Hot Site.

The Society has been included in Think You're the Only One?, 365 Health and Happiness Boosters, Voices of Truth, Every Day's a Holiday Calendar, Chase's Calendar of Events, and Trivial Pursuit's 1990's Edition includes a question about Admit You're Happy Day.

Pamela Gail Johnson has been an InspireMeToday.com Luminary in 2009 and 2010.

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