How the Happiness Advantage Changed my Personal & Professional Life!

1. Value happiness

3. Inspire others to accept the happiness challenge

2. Understand we are all responsible for our ‘own’

happiness

What is the Happiness Advantage?

1. Happy people have advantage; happier at workplace

2. You can’t change reality, but you can change how you process the world

3. If one has a negative outlook on things, that is a habit. A pattern that can be broken.

4. When facing crisis, one has to find a path that leads us from failure to a place of strength.

5. Limit your focus to small, manageable goals to gain greater control and power.

6. We can form new habits if we make it easy to do the right thing and hard to do the wrong thing.

7. Support of friends and family is important.

• 3 GratitudesWrite down three new things you are grateful for each day –rewire your brain for greater optimism.

• The DoublerSpend two minutes describing a meaningful experience from the past 24 hours – double the meaning in your life.

• Fun FifteenAdd 15 minutes of fun, active cardio – create a cascade of success.

•Meditation

Invest two minutes to train your brain to just watch your breath –undo negative effects of multitasking.

•Conscious Act of Kindness

Take two minutes to write an email, thanking one person in your social support network – increase the greatest happiness predictor.

•Happiness

1. Happiness is a Choice

2. Happiness Spreads

3. The Happiness Advantage• Shawn Achor

Shawn Achor – The Happy Secret to Better Work

Shawn Achor – The Happy Secret to Better Work