On Dec 1 st the government revealed the results of the UK’s National ‘Happiness’ survey, for those of you with a penchant for statistics you can view the full results here.

What it didn’t reveal were the specifics of what makes us happy. Probably because it’s such a subjective and personal thing, it’s different for each of us, what delights one person horrifies another.

In my experience people often don’t even know what makes them happy, we’re so busy doing what we do, we fail to even notice whether the choices we make are aligned with what makes us happy. When teams work together it’s a useful piece of data to have about each other, it allows you an insight into someone’s values and preferences.

So, in the spirit of research I asked the team at Tinder-Box ‘What makes you happy?’ and here’s what they told me:

1. Being outdoors on a lovely day
2. Swimming in the sea
3. Sunset on a warm beach
4. Standing on top of a mountain just about to ski down
5. Sunday lunch with family and friends
6. Laughing
7. The challenge of learning something new and progressing
8. Seeing others succeed
9. Being creative... and seeing the final product of lots of hard work

So based on that in 2012 you’ll find us on a beach encouraging each other to ski down the sand dunes straight into the sea, while we get creative by attempting to barbeque a Sunday roast as the sun sets – and we’ll have quite a laugh as we do it!

2012 is going to be a happy year in the office!