Happiness Intervention Report

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According to the Happiness Intervention, my task was to first complete the General Happiness Scale test and Positivity test. After completing that, I was to pick an intervention which was, to write three good things that happened to me each day for seven days straight. This task began on Friday November 3rd,2017 and ended Thursday November 9th,2017. Beginning on day 1, I got out a sheet of paper and wrote down three good things that happened to me that day such as, I got a call for a job interview, my sister came to Millersville to surprise me, and I went out to eat at Friday’s. Those were my three good things that happened on day 1 of the intervention. For the remainder of the days, I continued the same task on the same sheet of paper. When

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