Tag: positivity

Manufacture your Happiness

This is a great Ted.com talk! Dan Gilbert discusses each of us has the power to create our happiness and it does not come from the outside world. I love his summary:

“The lesson I want to leave you with, from this data, is that our longings and our worries are both to some degree overblown, because we have within us the capacity to manufacture the very commodity we are constantly chasing when we choose experience”

He discusses a study they conducted where when people were given a choice of a painting and one group could come back and choose a different one, another group could only pick once and then keep it. The happiest group was the group who did NOT have the choice to return/to make another decision. They decided to be happy with what they had instead.

Choose to be happy today :)!

“Simple Pleasures”

I put a couple things together this morning to prove a point… First up from Psychology Today some research showing the importance of noticing “simple pleasures:”

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Combine that with this info from Forbes discussing the vast improbability of us even existing:

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When we combine the two, we realize how un-fathomable it is to even be in the right place at the right time to notice a “simple” pleasure. What are the odds that you are in your car at the very moment the sun peeks up over the horizon to show it’s beauty? What are the odds that you notice the flight of the hummingbird whizzing by in the afternoon? Life’s simple pleasures are anything but simple. Take time to appreciate all the amazing aspects of life, because when you think about it, even being alive is awe-inspiring :)!

Tidbits from National Achiever’s Congress

Thursday, my Office Manager extraordinairre and I attended the National Achievers Congress in Denver. It was great! 2 great, inspiring quotes/things that I took away:

 

“The odds of you even existing are 400 trillion to one (that’s the odds of being born). You are more likely to win the megamillions lottery 5 times than to be born in the first place”-Gary Vaynerchuk
“Whatever your goals are, what you are really after is the feeling(s) you will get when you achieve those goals. So why not start with working on getting that feeling now, and then achieving goals become a product rather than the end.”-Tony Robbins

Check in with yourself (and fuzzle wuzzle?)

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A great thing to do throughout your day, take a moment to say to yourself “I am doing the best I can in this moment, and I also know I can do better :).” (Adapted from The Miracle Morning book)

Be happy in the now with big dreams of the future.

Also know that NOONE can do exactly what you do, because it is utterly true, there is only one of you. (That sounded a little Dr. Seuss-ish, you can throw a fuzzle wuzzle in there for good measure.)