The Happy Secret to Working Better

10% of your happiness comes from the external world.  90% of your long term happiness comes from the way your brain processes the outside world.  When we change our perception of the world and start to look at the world in a more positive light, we will be happier.

25% of job success is predicted by IQ.  75% depends on your optimism levels, your social support, and your ability to stress as a challenge instead of a threat.  So, being a happier, more optimistic person can triple your job performance.

As a society, we need to reverse the formula for happiness and success.  

Most use the formula – ‘If I work harder, then I will be more successful.  If I am more successful, then I will be happier.’  The problem is that every time you experience success, you just change the goal post of what success looks and feels like.  ‘You got good grades, now you have to get better grades.  You got into one school, now you have to get into a better school.  You got a good job, now you have to get a better job.’ 

If happiness is on the other side of success then your brain never gets there.  We have pushed happiness on the other side of the horizon because we think that we have to get something to be successful.

Our brains work in the opposite direction; happiness precedes success.  If you can raise somebody’s level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences the Happiness Advantage.  When your brain is positive, you perform better.

You can train your brain to become more positive.  In just 2 minutes a day, for 21 days in a row, you can rewire your brain to scan for the positives in life before the negative, and making you a happier, more optimistic person.