1.      A description of the health challenge.

2.      The reasons you chose the health challenge.

3.      Your baseline behavior/level before completing the challenge.

4.      How the health challenge is expected to improve your health.

5.      Your prediction of what would be the most challenging component of sticking with the challenge.

6.      The results of your challenge (how many days did you stick with it, what was the outcome, etc.)

7.      What was the most challenging part about sticking with the challenge, and if this matched what you predicted or not.

8.      What factors (perhaps factors we have learned about in class) would have helped you be even more successful in sticking with the challenge.

The effectiveness of positive psychology interventions was also proved by Michael Fordyce (1977, 1983) whose study found that some students in a happiness program derived more happiness because of the fourteen fundamentals of happiness psychology.

Fordyce’s fourteen fundamentals include:

Fordyce’s findings suggested that PPIs improve our state of well-being permanently by impacting these fourteen fundamental factors of happiness.