20 | Happiness Hygiene: Learn How to Increase Happiness with Simple Researched Steps

Do you feel like your happiness could use a boost? Is it hard to get through each week without using all your stamina? Most days, do you feel like you’re just going through the motions and surviving? Do you wonder if there are simple steps that would improve your mood a little more each day?

If you’ve felt any of these things, you’ll enjoy this episode. Today we’ll discuss Shawn Achor’s book, The Happiness Advantage, and his simple Happiness Hygiene Steps that are proven to increase your happiness. I read this book years ago and I still think about it and use his steps regularly for myself and for my clients. They definitely work and best yet, they require only minutes of your day. 

 

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-Kendra

 

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Happiness Advantage

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“If you can raise somebody’s level of positivity in the present then their brain experiences what we now call a happiness advantage which is that your brain at positive performs significantly better than at negative, neutral, or stressed. Your intelligence rises, your creativity rises, your energy levels rise. …Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.  …We’ve found that there are way that you can train your brain to become more positive. In just a two-minute span of time done for 21 days in a row, you can actually rewire your brain, allowing your brain to actually work more optimistically and more successfully.” -Shawn Achor Ted Talk (went to Harvard and has spoken to ⅓ of fortune 500 companies

 

“I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.” -Steve Jobs

 

“Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.”

― Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

 

“Each one of us is like the butterfly Butterfly Effect. Each tiny move toward a more positive mindset can send ripples of positivity through our organizations, our families, and our communities.”

― Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

 

“Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.”

― Shawn Achor

 

“Without action, knowledge is often meaningless. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently.”

― Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

 

“For me, happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.”

― Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

 

“We’ve all heard the usual examples: Michael Jordan cut from his high school basketball team, Walt Disney fired by a newspaper editor for not being creative enough, the Beatles turned away by a record executive who told them that “guitar groups are on their way out.” In fact, many of their winning mantras essentially describe the notion of falling up: “I’ve failed over and over again in my life,” Jordan once said, “and that is why I succeed.” Robert F. Kennedy said much the same: “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” And Thomas Edison, too, once claimed that he had failed his way to success.”

― Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

 

“Studies have found that American teenagers are two and half times more likely to experience elevated enjoyment when engaged in a hobby than when watching TV, and three times more likely when playing a sport. And yet here’s the paradox: These same teenagers spend four times as many hours watching TV as they do engaging in sports or hobbies.”

― Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

 

“What we spend our time and mental energy focusing on can indeed become our reality.”

― Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

 

“Perhaps the most accurate term for happiness, then, is the one Aristotle used: eudaimonia, which translates not directly to “happiness” but to “human flourishing.” This definition really resonates with me because it acknowledges that happiness is not all about yellow smiley faces and rainbows. For me, happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.”

― Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage