25 Nov Positively transform your whole week with this simple 23 minutes routine
via Inc.com by Marcel Schwantes
This research has left me levitating with excitement. I’m dumbfounded by what positive psychology can do. But this is taking it to a whole new level. What Marcel, tell us!
OK, here’s the scoop. Shawn Achor, Harvard-trained happiness researcher and New York Times best-selling author of The Happiness Advantage, has spent over a decade studying happiness and says you can boost your happiness, drop your stress, and increase your productivity with just a short set of activities (I’ll give you the secret sauce below).
Achor says it all starts with training our brains to be positive and optimistic. Here’s Achor:
“If you can raise somebody’s level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences what we now call a happiness advantage. Your brain at positive performs significantly better than at negative, neutral, or stressed. Your intelligence rises, your creativity rises, your energy levels rise.”
The outcomes of a positive and more optimistic brain are astounding. In Achor’s case studies from his work with thousands of Fortune 500 executives in 42 countries, he discovered that…
- Productivity rose by 31 percent.
- Sales increased by 37 percent.
- The likelihood of promotion rose by 40 percent.
What’s fascinating is that positivity and optimism, once released, spreads to others and across the enterprise. It’s contagious. You can literally flip on a switch and cause tremendous cultural shift in your organization by practicing these things I’m about to outline below with your colleagues.
The only catch? You have to do each of these incredibly short and easy routines (it comes out to 23 minutes each morning) for 21 straight days. That’s it. Your brain takes over from there, dopamine is released, and the rest is happiness history.
Your 23-Minute Morning Routine
Set your whole team, department, or entire company to a “happiness advantage” with this simple routine before leaving for work…
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