Mindset is the most important aspect in life and the office

WHAT HAPPY PEOPLE KNOW

54,000 SCIENTIFIC PAPERS ARE AVAILABLE ON DEPRESSION

415 PAPERS ARE AVAILABLE ON HAPPINESS!

UNHAPPY PEOPLE FOCUS ON PEOPLES SHORTCOMING & ATTITUDES

HAPPY PEOPLE FOCUS ON WHAT'S RIGHT WITH HUMAN BEINGS!

UNHAPPY PEOPLE HAVE A "GLASS IS HALF- EMPTY" ATTITUDE IN LIFE

HAPPY PEOPLE ARE THRILLED TO HAVE A GLASS & SOMETHING IN IT!

It is the utmost importance in the office and in Life to have a positive attitude.

As the office is a healing environment and place where people can escape the stress of their everyday lives, it is extremely important to see the positive side of life and be happy!

Remember Smiles and laughs are contagious

6 Happiness Tools. . . .

1. Appreciation

2. Choice

3. Personal power

4. Leading with your strengths

5. Power of language & stories

6.. Multi- dimensional living

Adapted from What Happy People Know, by Dan Baker, Ph.D. and Cameron Stauth (Rodale Press, 2003).

We all want to be happy, but most of us are trapped by ways of thinking and behaving that seem to keep us perpetually dissatisfied.

But there are six simple tools that will help us to be truly, deeply happy. Find out what they are:

1. Appreciation.

This is the first and most fundamental happiness tool. Appreciation is the purest, strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything. Research now shows that it is physiologically impossible to be in a state of appreciation and a state of fear at the same time. Thus, appreciation is the antidote to fear.

2. Choice.

Choice is the root of freedom and the voice of the heart. Having no choices, or options, feels like being in jail. It leads to depression, anxiety, and the condition called learned helplessness. Choice can even govern perception. Anyone can choose the course of their lives, but only happy people do it.

3. Personal power

This is the almost indefinable proactive force, similar to character, that gives you power over your feelings and power over your fate. Personal power has two components: taking responsibility and taking action. It means realizing that your life belongs to you and you alone, and then doing something about it. Personal power keeps you from being a victim.

4. Leading with your strengths.

When you give in to the automatic fear reaction, it makes you focus on your weaknesses, which only reinforces your fear. But when you take the path of the intellect and spirit, you naturally begin to focus on your strengths-and start to solve your situation. People often think that fixing their weaknesses will save them, but it rarely works. It's just too painful. Leading with your strengths feels good, and that's why it works. Simple but true.

5. The power of language and stories.

We don't describe the world we see-we see the world we describe. Language, as the single mostfundamental force of the human intellect, has the power to alter perception. We think in words, and these words have the power to limit us or to set us free; they can frighten us or evoke our courage. Similarly, the stories we tell ourselves about our own lives eventually become our lives. We can tell healthy stories or horror stories. The choice is ours.

6. Multidimensional living.

There are three primary components of life: relationships, health, and purpose (which is usually work). Many people, though, put all their energy into just one area. The most common choice is work, because work best assuages our survival fears of not having enough and not being enough. Other people become obsessed with relationships (because relationship is another word for love), and some people limit their lives in the name of longevity. None of this works. Happiness comes from a full life.

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WHAT HAPPY PEOPLE KNOW

By: Dan baker

Psychologist & director of the

Life enhancement program

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