Have you ever asked yourself if you are truly happy or not? This infographic, originally published by Networx, can help you out in making up your mind.
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Happiness is the only true measure of personal success.
Therefore, Geoffrey James, writer of the “Sales Source” column on Inc.com, provides us nine small changes that we can make to our daily routine that will immediately increase the amount of happiness in our life.
- Start each day with expectation;
- Take time to plan and prioritize;
- Give a gift to everyone you meet;
- Deflect partisan conversations;
- Assume people have good intentions;
- Eat high quality food slowly;
- Let go of your results;
- Turn off “background” TV;
- End each day with gratitude.
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In this TED talk, statistician Nic Marks, founder of the Centre for Well-Being at the UK think tank New Economics Foundation, paints a positive picture of the future where it could be possible to lead happier lives while preserving our planet, introducing the Happy Planet Index.
He also suggests five remarkable actions that each of us can do to improve wellbeing, based on research and studies:
– Connect
– Be Active
– Take Notice
– Keep Learning
– Give
Could this be the recipe for happier (and more productive) nations without costing the Earth?
A decade of research, proves that happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome. Raising sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and accurancy on tasks by 19%, as well as myriad of health and quality of life improvements.
In this fast-moving and entertaining talk, psychologist Shawn Achor, in his Ted Talk, argues that actually happiness inspires productivity.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. Steven Covey
Michael W. Fordyce (leading researcher in happiness) in his work “Psychology of Happiness,” has elaborated the following 14 points to follow to find happiness:
1) Be more active and keep busy
2) Spend more time socializing
3) Be productive at meaningful work
4) Get better organized and plan things out
5) Stop worrying
6) Lower your expectations and aspirations
7) Develop positive, optimistic thinking
8) Get present oriented
9) Work on a healthy personality
10) Develop an ongoing, social personality
11) Be yourself
12) Eliminate negative feelings and problems
13) Close relationships, #1 source of happiness
14) Place happiness as first priority
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