Just a quick heads up today. There’s only 24 hours left until registration for The Stop Worrying Today Course closes. Until 1.00 p.m EDT (that’s 17.00 GMT) on Wednesday the 27th of And this is the last time you’ll be able to enroll in the course this year. So if you are interested in that – and in getting the free bonus course on optimism worth $29 if you join the Standard Edition of the course and 6 additional bonuses plus my Smart Social Skills Course (value $37) if you enroll in the Advanced Edition – then now is the time to take action. Click here to learn more about Stop Worrying Today and to join it before the doors close via Blogger Just 24 Hours to Go Until Stop Worrying Today Closes
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Just a quick heads up today. There’s only 24 hours left until registration for The Stop Worrying Today Course closes. Until 1.00 p.m EDT (that’s 17.00 GMT) on Wednesday the 27th of And this is the last time you’ll be able to enroll in the course this year. So if you are interested in that – and in getting the free bonus course on optimism worth $29 if you join the Standard Edition of the course and 6 additional bonuses plus my Smart Social Skills Course (value $37) if you enroll in the Advanced Edition – then now is the time to take action. Click here to learn more about Stop Worrying Today and to join it before the doors close via Tumblr Just 24 Hours to Go Until Stop Worrying Today Closes via the Huffington Post by Tiffany David Companies are serious about improving their bottom line through Employee Experience initiatives and that makes me happy. When we focus on the Moments That Matter, we take a more human approach to employee satisfaction that acknowledges life’s ups and downs and doesn’t intrude upon the sacred notion of individual happiness that tends to get lost in some culture initiatives. Let’s not kid ourselves though, it is about making more money. Although there is nothing wrong with fostering employee productivity, penetrating more market share, improving customer satisfaction and putting a shine on the ole employer brand, research shows that people are primarily responsible for their intrinsic long-term happiness. Quite frankly, it can be creepy when someone is in charge of your happiness at work. Josh Kovensky says what we are all feeling, “Besides the eerie similarity between “chief happiness officer” and concepts like “ministry of love” and “war on terror,” it represents an intrusion into our emotional lives that should not be permitted to any kind of authority figure—be it corporate or governmental—regardless of intention. So, as my children often tell me, “You’re not the boss of me”. And, while I ponder who my children’s actual boss may be, let me assure you that these tips are based on my personal experience and conversations with all sorts of workers. Take it for what it is and recall the words of Woodrow Wilson, “You are not here to merely make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” Here are the top 5 ways that you can regain control over your sustained well-being and happiness at work… …keep reading the full & original article HERE via Tumblr These 5 tips are guaranteed to make you happier Fall is here. The days are becoming darker and colder again. It’s, in my experience, easier to become vulnerable to worry and negativity during these months compared to the warm and sunny days of summer. And so I have opened up the doors again for enrollment into the 7-week Stop Worrying Today Course. If you join during this period you also get free life-time access to all the material in my The Invincible Summer – an 8-Week Course in Optimism as a special bonus. The registration to join this course will only be open for 3 days this time, until 1.00 p.m EDT (that’s 17.00 GMT) on Wednesday the 27th of September. And this is the last time you’ll be able to enroll in the course in 2017. Click here to learn more and to join the course I started working on this course two years ago but it all started 10 years ago when I made a decision to not let this toxic habit limit and control my life.
And this course is filled with all the best things I’ve learned about that in the past decade. These are the strategies, exercises and simple step-by-step methods that have helped me to stop worrying so much. The habits that have been a true life-changer for me. How would your life change if you stopped worrying so much? Each week of the course you’ll get a written guide, a worksheet to help you gain better understanding of your own situation and results as you go through the course and an audio version of that week’s guide that you can listen to anywhere when you need a boost. At the end of the weekly guide you’ll get just a few specific action-steps to take that week to minimize the risk of you feeling overwhelmed and getting lost in worry again. Because I want as many as possible to not only to read the information. But also to take small steps forward each week to make a real and lasting change in their lives. In this course you’ll for example learn how to:
And a whole lot more. The window to join The Stop Worrying Today Course closes at 1.00 p.m EDT (that’s 17.00 GMT) on Wednesday the 27th of September. Click here to learn more about The Stop Worrying Today Course and to join it via Tumblr The Stop Worrying Today Course is Now Open to Join (but Closes on Wednesday) If you want to know what some researchers think is the No1 factor in happiness then keep reading9/23/2017 via Business Insider by Scott Mautz A report by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology indicates that the No. 1 contributor to happiness in life is not money, popularity, or even a good sex life. And no, it’s not binge-watching Netflix either. It’s autonomy, the feeling that your life’s activities and habits are self-chosen and self-endorsed. And when we have autonomy in our life, when we have the mentally exhilarating power of choice, we must spend it wisely. But far too many counter the high from being empowered with the low of engaging in a destructive habit — disempowering self-dialogue… …keep reading HERE for the full & original article via Tumblr If you want to know what some researchers think is the No1 factor in happiness then keep reading… If you’re employed, you probably spend a significant portion of your life working. Even if you’re not employed, you probably spend a significant portion of your life engaging in domestic or family related chores. So why wouldn’t we want to enjoy these hours? Happiness at work; and happiness in our other tasks…is both desirable and possible. And here are some great lessons from some real experts… via Forbes.com by Sarah Landrum Two things that haven’t always gone hand in hand for the past couple generations? Happiness and work. The post-9/11 recession generation — namely millennials — have struggled to find steady work and they seek work that’s meaningful. Millennials want to be happy at work. Is that so wrong? Stereotyped as “job hoppers,” millennials have been called the happiest generation of professionals in the workforce, with only eight percent considering themselves unhappy on the job. Meanwhile, older generations are increasingly unhappy at work, with Generation X at 16 percent and baby boomers at 17 percent. Does your career path reflect where you want to be in life and who you are? Are you a job-hopper who needs a shift in perspective? While hanging posters of cats with motivational sayings in your workspace helps, what you need is an old-fashioned talking-to. You need to hear the right words to energize your professional spirit with important lessons on happiness at work. These five top-rated speakers have those words for you.
In this TED Talk, behavioral economist Dan Ariely speaks about experiments revealing the nuanced and unexpected attitudes people have regarding meaning in their professional lives. It’s not only money or joy that motivates people to work — most people thrive by “making constant progress and feeling a sense of purpose.” Ariely says most individuals think of people at work like “rats in a maze” caring only about money, and once money is given to someone, they’ll work one way and move on to the next task. That’s a misconception. He discusses experiments surrounding the sisyphic condition — based on the Sisyphus myth — in which participants built LEGO models for increasingly less money. Additional experiments revealed that ignoring someone’s performance is like destroying their effort right there in front of them. It only takes a little acknowledgment to boost motivation and establish meaning for someone at work.
When you’re not happy at work, your work ethic and productivity can falter. Psychologist Shawn Achor shares an inspirational childhood story about how his and his sister’s G.I. Joe soldiers and My Little Ponies were ready to lead a cavalry charge when, all of a sudden, she fell off the bunk bed. Her brain devoted resources to feeling her suffering, but her brother’s imagination saved the day by redefining the situation and its pain. Achor called his little sister a unicorn because she did the amazing thing of falling on all fours. Pointing out this unique ability empowered her and she was back at the charge… …keep reading the full & original article HERE via Tumblr Lessons on how to be happier at work However you define “happiness” you need to be at your best. So learning from high performers can help create more happiness. With this in mind, check out these 6 high performance habits backed by science… via Inc.com by Jeff Haden Why do some people succeed more quickly than others, and maintain that success over the course of decades? And out of that extremely small sub-set of people, why do some of them seem miserable, while others live happy lives? Success and happiness: That’s the combination we all hope to achieve. But the problem is… how do we become more successful and feel more fulfilled? Brendon Burchard has spent twenty years answering that question, and in High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way, he provides the answers. Brendon is the author of bestselling books like The Motivation Manifesto and The Millionaire Messenger, is a pioneer in online education (his videos have been viewed over 100 million times, and more than one million people have taken his online courses), is a Top 100 Most Followed Public Figure on Facebook, and is the CEO of High Performance Institute. Brendon’s findings in High Performance Habits are based on extensive research… but more importantly, he lays out practical, real-world ways you can adopt the six habits to use in your professional and personal life. I read an advance copy, and I promise it’s one of the best books you’ll read this year. So I spoke with Brendon to get a brief overview, in his words, of the six habits. Here we go: 1. Seek clarity. High performers don’t necessarily get clarity. Instead, they seek it more often than other people — so they tend to find it and stay on their true path. For example, successful people don’t wait until New Year’s to perform a self evaluation and decide what changes they want to make. I’ve worked with Oprah, and she starts every meeting by saying, “What is our intention for this meeting? What’s important? What matters?” High performers constantly seek clarity. That makes them better at sifting out distractions because they constantly re-focus on what is important. A simple approach to seeking clarity is to focus on four things: Self, skills, social, and service. How do you want to describe your ideal self? How do you want to behave socially?What skills do you want to develop and demonstrate? What service do you want to provide? Asking — and answering — those questions more often than other people will definitely give you an edge… …keep reading the full & original article HERE via Tumblr 6 habits high performers use via Time.com by Javy Galindo What makes you happy? Reflect on what you’ve done today. What do your behaviors say about your approach to happiness? These are the question I usually ask students on the first day of my psychology courses. Often, their responses sound something like this: food, shopping, a new car, a better job, money, sex, an honest spouse, and nice teachers. For many, this is a very familiar list as it represents a very common approach to happiness. All of these answers refer to something outside of us. Hence, the common approach is to change the external conditions of our lives, and we end up treating happiness like buried treasure: something that we have to find, attain, and pursue. However, this may not be a very effective approach. It might be hard to believe, but studies indicate that the circumstances of our lives only account for approximately 10% of our long-term happiness. Sure, we may get a happiness high after buying the new shoes or electronic device, but (as your closet may attest to) that high does not last very long. Instead of enhancing our happiness, the common approach may be a detriment, since shortly after attaining our pursuits we may begin craving even more of it in order to recreate our previous emotional boost. We can become trapped in what positive psychologists (those who study human happiness) refer to as the hedonic treadmill—the non-stop desire for more or greater pleasures: the bigger house, bank account, sound system, etc… It’s no wonder some of us never feel truly fulfilled. If we think getting more will make us happy, we can never be happy, since there’s always more to be had. This is not to say that we shouldn’t strive to improve our lives. It’s only saying that if we believe our happiness is solely dependent on crossing the finish line, it may be impossible to have a happy life if we continually push that line further out with each step. Instead of the conditions of our lives, research indicates that our long-term level of happiness is more influenced by how we choose to think and what we choose to think about. So based on this research, instead of searching for happiness on the outside, what can we do to choose happiness from within? …keep reading the full & original article HERE via Tumblr 4 ways of choosing happiness…from within via Inc.com by Marcel Schwantes The field of Positive Psychology has given us plenty of clues about the better path toward happiness and fulfillment. Whether it’s being exposed to experiences of “awe” (yes, it’s a thing) so you can live longer, practicing positive thinking so you can reduce anxiety, or releasing more oxytocin in the brain so your teams perform better together, the research is impressive. Don’t Focus on Goals, Enjoy the JourneyOne false notion I’ve learned about is that, in our constant striving toward productivity and results, doing more to achieve success, and trying to ultimately get to our “happy place,” positive psychology takes us one another path. Let me expand on that. Dee Eastman, Founding Director of The Daniel Plan, writes that “scientists are discovering the pathway to positivity is less dependent on reaching our life goals, and instead focuses more on the journey we take getting there.” Eastman should know. She is a health science expert with an emphasis on long-term lifestyle change and prevention. She was a contributing author to the #1 New York TimesBest Seller, The Daniel Plan — 40 Days to a Healthier Life with megachurch icon Rick Warren, author of the classic, gazillion-best-seller, Purpose Driven Life. In the Wellness Council of America website, Eastman shares three steps to a well-lived life drawn from Positive Psychology. She writes,
1. Celebrate the Small WinsMost of us are too busy focusing on the end goal to appreciate or even notice the smaller wins to get to the bigger goals. She says that when we acknowledge small successes along our journey, it sparks the reward circuitry of our brains. “When feel-good chemicals are released we get the feeling of pride, creating the happiness factor that makes us want to go further towards our next achievement,” writes Eastman… …keep reading the full & original article HERE via Tumblr According to science, these 3 things will make you happier Although this article is ostensibly about “getting things done” and productivity…I’m confident that all the recommendations are also very relevant to creating more happiness! Success and happiness overlap considerably, and so if you want more of either or both then keep reading… via Inc.com by Christie Mims Have you ever wondered how some people seem to accomplish their goals effortlessly? Or, how some people seem to get promoted or recognized while you work nights and weekends without recognition? Or even how some people make work look easy, while you feel like you can’t get on top of your email? How do these magical people do it? How do they seem to reach big goals while you stay stuck? If you’ve struggled with these questions, you aren’t alone! But fortunately, I have some good news: The solution to making your goals come true starts with athletes. No really–stick with me (even if you hate sports). I found myself in an internet hole recently and came across quite a few articles on how athletes prepare for big events (here’s one if you’re curious, and here’s another. Short of all of the lucky socks, stretching, moments of silence, it all boils down into one word: routine… …keep reading the full & original article HERE via Tumblr Here’s the secret to getting things done |
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