Clients: Thank you to every one of you.  Because of you, my work is a pleasure.

 

Friends: Thank you all, especially the goddesses; 20-year friends - MK, MC, and Carol; the current and x-PwC folks who provide nurturing feedback, especially Bud; my Beverly friends, especially Mary, Maureen, Felicia, Don, and Carolyn; and incredibly wonderful neighbors.

 

Family: Huge gratitude and love to my family and to Paul’s, especially to my husband, Paul, for support, personal inspiration, constant love, and wonderful attention; to my mother, loving and supportive of me for more than half a century; to my son, for his full laughter, his willingness to talk and his always enthusiastic responses to my ideas; to my brother, for his steady love and fine example of being an exceptional human being.

 

Harvard: Thank you to Phil Stone and Tal Ben-Shahar, for the outstanding seminar on Positive Psychology; Marcia Davis for her support from the beginning; Dante Spetter, for her encouragement and focus; and Sharon Ricciardi, for being such a fully supportive friend and fellow adventurer.

 

The Positive Psychologists: Thank you to all who have contributed to this work, especially Marty Seligman for beginning and the Authentic Happiness Podacious Gratipod; Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough, for their work on gratitude; Chris Peterson and Barbara Fredrickson for their far-reaching and compelling research.