The Happiness Advantage

7- Principles:

“ The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” John Mitlon

Discovering the Happiness Advantage

The Happiness Advantage- retrain our brains to capitalize on positivity through improving our productivity and performance

The Fulcrum and the Level- adjust our mindset to give us power to be more fulfilled and successful

The Tetris Effect- retrain our brains to spot patterns of possibilities to seize opportunities where ever we look

Falling Up- our brains map different paths to help us cope- teach how to be happier and more successful because of failures

The Zorro Circle- regain control by focusing on small- manageable goals- leading to expanding the circle of achieving bigger ones

The 20 second rule- start small to reroute the path of resistance and replacing bad habits with good ones

Social Investment- Invest in your social network- they are the greatest predictors of our success and excellence

The Happiness Advantage at Work

Points we are not focusing on:

Painting on a happy face Use positive thinking to wish away

your problems Pretend your problems don’t exist

Be realistic about the present; while maximize our potential for the future

Learn how to cultivate the mindset and behaviors to fuel greater success and fulfillment

Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it is the realization that we can.

Happiness Advantage starts at a different place:

Change is Possible

Practice makes perfect….when we repeatedly challenge ourselves to get better at something, eventually time pays off.

We have all heard the sayings: You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, They were born an athlete, Our potential is biologically fixed

Records are always meant to be broken- Guinness Book of World Records human potential is unlimited

Figuring out how to capitalize on our brains (way of thinking) to change so we can reap the benefits of the Happiness Advantage brings us to:

If the change is possible? How long does it last?

7 Principles of The Happiness Advantage

The RIPPLE Effect

Spreading the Happiness Advantage at Work, at Home, and BEYOND

The person we have the greatest power to change is ourselves- the 7 principles must start at an individual level- by no means do they end there….

They can impact those around us…creating an upward spiral of happiness and success with rippling to outward benefits….