Gaining Momentum (his)

Sometimes you can tell if you're headed in the right direction by whether or not you're gaining momentum.  I've found there have been times in my life when I picked a path and it seemed at every turn I couldn’t catch a break and despite repeated efforts I got nowhere.  In those situations I would take it as a sign I’d picked the wrong path.  Hapacus has been just the opposite.

Someone recently asked me when I came up with the idea for Hapacus.  I can’t pick a date or identify a moment because it has been a very gradual progression.  Did it start when I first read Dr. Seligman’s book, “Authentic Happiness,” in 2002, or when I first thought of the idea of teaching a class on Positive Psychology in 2005, or when I finally came up with the name “Hapacus”, began organizing this blog, or put together a student curriculum in 2009?  Between 2002 and 2009 Positive Psychology was a hobby.  I read about it and applied its findings in my own life.  It wasn’t until late 2009 I started putting the pieces together in a way that could be considered a business.

Many times along that path I’ve had the thought, “oh, this isn’t going any further.”  And then something happens to push the idea, the structure and the business forward.  I don’t have those thoughts anymore because the momentum has reached a level that at the very least we will launch our commercial product in the spring of 2012 and I believe the momentum will carry us far beyond that.