1: “Let’s say our starting point is 1 and our goal is 30, but we only get to 22,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write in The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
If we measure ourselves against our goal of 30, we are 8 short.
If this is where we choose to focus, we are in the GAP.
When we measure … continue reading
1: Edward’s suffered from anxiety and worry. His body language made that clear, Chad Willardson thought to himself.
Chad is the founder and president of Pacific Capital, a premier wealth management firm in Southern California. He was meeting Edward for the very first time. The year was 2003.
“Edward mentioned that he was concerned about the stock market and where the economy was headed,” Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy write … continue reading
1: “Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and Americans have been unhappy ever since,” is the first sentence of Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy‘s powerful book The Gap and The Gain: The High Achiever’s Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success.
“One specific phrase has come to define American culture and psychology: ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,'” Dan and Ben observe.
Thomas Jefferson wrestled … continue reading
1: “The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period,” says Dr. Robert Waldinger, director of the longest and most comprehensive study on human happiness.
Period. Hard stop.
Robert tells us: “It’s not the number of friends you have; it’s the quality of your close relationships that matters.”
In his book The Happiness Advantage, Shawn Achor shares … continue reading
This week we are looking at insights from Shawn Achor’s terrific book on positive psychology, The Happiness Advantage.
Key takeaway: Happiness is not a mood. Rather, it is something we can work at. Even get better at.
As with many things in life, the first step is awareness. But just being aware of happiness doesn’t make us happier, we have to take action! Shawn reminds us that information … continue reading
So far this week, we’ve learned a couple of key lessons from Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage. First, happiness is more than a feeling; it is an indispensable ingredient of our success. And second: there are some serious benefits to being happy.
Shawn then raises the question: “Well, that’s great for the happy people, Shawn, but what about the rest of us??”
There’s good news here, too. In recent … continue reading
Yesterday, we covered the main idea from Shawn Achor’s The Happiness Advantage: that being happy is an indispensable ingredient of our success.
The book is packed with interesting research and evidence that back up Shawn’s assertion.
One longitudinal study of happiness was done by reviewing the diary entries of 180 Catholic nuns who were asked to write down their thoughts in an autobiographical journal. More than fifty years later, … continue reading
