The Next Step

The Happiness Challenge

    1. Max set the challenge to make one hundred people happy over the next forty days.

        •  Are you willing to commit to this?

        •  Does anything about this challenge make you hesitant? If so, what?

        •  Does anything about this challenge excite you? If so, what?

    2. Throughout this book you learned ten different ways to make others happy and, therefore, yourself happy:

        Encourage one another (1 Thess. 5:11).

Bear with one another (Eph. 4:2).

Regard one another as more important (Phil. 2:4).

Greet one another (Rom. 16:16).

Pray for one another (James 5:16).

Serve one another (Gal. 5:13).

Accept one another (Rom. 15:7).

Admonish one another (Col. 3:16).

Forgive one another (Eph. 4:32).

Love one another (1 John 3:11).

        •  Name two or three of these you feel comfortable pursuing during the next forty days to make others happy.

        •  Name two or three of these that are more challenging for you but that you are willing to attempt during the next forty days.

    3. Assess your happiness level right now. On a scale of one to ten, how happy would you say you are ?

    4. Spend a few minutes thinking about five people whose happiness you want to increase over the next forty days. Write down their names and how you could bring some happiness into their lives using a “one another” passage.

    5. After you’ve completed the forty-day challenge, consider the following questions:

        •  How would you measure your current happiness level compared to what it was before this challenge?

        •  What was the most memorable part of this challenge for you, and why?

        •  What was difficult about this challenge, and why?

        •  How could you make this happiness a part of your everyday life?