Seven Paths to Happiness (and Two Dead Ends): Strategies for Your Life and Career

1h 5mGeneral2025-02-10

Authors

Chris Croft

Lecturer, Thought Leader, Project Management, Leadership

CRFT Productions

Full-Service Learning Content Company

Course details

Choosing the right path for your career and life can be one of the most impactful decisions you make. In this course, Chris Croft explores the seven distinct paths to happiness, each with its own set of advantages and challenges. Whether aiming for corporate success, launching a business, or pursuing a passion, this course provides valuable insights into how different paths align with individual personalities, skills, and aspirations. Chris looks in-depth at topics such as the trade-offs of financial-driven goals, the pursuit of a vocation, and how to find balance in multi-harvesting or niche careers.

Skills covered

Talent ManagementWell-Being and Self-CareHuman ResourcesLimited SeriesProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and Management

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - The seven paths to happiness

1. The Meaning of Life

02 - Making choices and planning your life
03 - Being happy in life

2. Path 1 - Maximum Fun Until It Runs Out

04 - Maximum fun until it runs out
05 - Pros and cons of maximizing fun
06 - Tips to get the best from maximizing fun

3. Dead End 1 - Easy Life at Work

07 - What's wrong with an easy life at work

4. Path 2 - Steadily Up the Mountain

08 - Steadily up the mountain
09 - Pitfalls of steadily going up the mountain
10 - How to maximize the chance of succeeding in corporate life
11 - How do you jam tomorrow
12 - People climbing the mountain might suit

5. Path 3 - One Big Plan with Delayed Gratification

13 - Having one big plan with delayed gratification
14 - The pros and cons of having one big plan
15 - What to consider before having one big plan
16 - Tips for building your own business
17 - People who having one big plan might suit

6. Dead End 2 - Starting with the Money

18 - What's wrong with thinking about money
19 - Why money won't make you happy

7. Path 4 - Find Your Vocation

20 - Finding your vocation
21 - Pros and cons of vocations

8. Path 5 - Get Into a Niche

22 - Getting into a niche
23 - Potential problems with getting into a niche
24 - Tips to maximize the success in your niche
25 - People who finding a niche path might suit

9. Path 6 - Multi-Harvesting

26 - What is multi-harvesting and does it work
27 - Variety in multi-harvesting
28 - How to maximize the success of multi-harvesting

10. Path 7 - Search for Your Ikigai

29 - What is an ikigai
30 - Tips to maximize the success of finding your ikigai
31 - Pitfalls of finding your ikigai

11. How to Choose the Right Path for You

32 - The matrix of life path factors
33 - Personality type affecting your choice of path
34 - Venn diagram of following life paths
35 - Flow chart of life paths to help you decide

12. Combinations of Paths

36 - Following one life path then another
37 - Following two life paths at once

Conclusion

38 - Some final questions to help you think about life paths
39 - Following the seven paths to happiness