Happiness comes not from having more, not from having less, but from wanting what you have.
We are happy when we are growing.
Happiness is a mindset for your journey, not the result of your destination.
We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
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.
Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.
Waiting to be happy limits our brain’s potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.
Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety.
Each one of us is like that butterfly, the Butterfly Effect. And each tiny move toward a more positive mindset can send ripples of positivity through our organizations, our families, and our communities.
We not only need to work happy, we need to work at being happy.
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
One of the most powerful forces in human nature is our belief that change is possible.
The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential.
Positivity is such a high predicator of success rates.
Success does not mean happiness. Check out any celebrity magazine to look for examples to disabuse you of thinking that being beautiful, successful or rich will make you happy.
Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.
Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it’s the realization that we can.
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.
Happiness is the precursor to success.
Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.