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page 1 http://bmindful.com/forum/thread/16956/newestjanuary-2023-pg-2happinessadvantage-positive Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.” – Shawn Achor author of The Happiness Advantage.
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“The most successful decisions come when we are thinking clearly and creatively enough to recognize all the paths available to us, and accurately predict where that path will lead. The problem is that when we are stressed or in crisis, many people miss the most important path of all: the path up.” – Shawn Achor
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“The people who can most successfully get themselves up off the mat are those who define themselves not by what has happened to them, but by what they can make out of what has happened. These are the people who actually use adversity to find the path forward. They speak not just of ‘bouncing back,’ but of ‘bouncing forward’.” – Shawn Achor
TED VIDEOThe Happy Secret-To Better work Shawn Achor is the CEO of Good Think Inc., where he researches and teaches about positive psychology. Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. He is the CEO of Good Think Inc., a Cambridge-based consulting firm which researches positive outliers — people who are well above average — to understand where human potential, success and happiness intersect. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, he clearly and humorously describes to organizations how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures. He is also the author of The Happiness Advantage. “When our brains constantly scan for and focus on the positive, we profit from three of the most important tools available to us: happiness,gratitude and optimism..” – Shawn Achor
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“The mental construction of our daily activities, more than the activity itself, defines our reality.” – Shawn Achor
“When we are happy—when our mindset and mood are positive—we are smarter, more motivated, and thus more successful. Happiness is the center, and success revolves around it.” – Shawn Achor
“Even the smallest shots of positivity can give someone a serious competitive edge.” – Shawn Achor
“Positive emotions help us organize new information, keep that information in the brain longer, and retrieve it faster later on.” – Shawn Achor
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“In 1998, Martin Seligman, then president of the American Psychological Association, announced that it was finally time to shift the traditional approach to psychology and start to focus more on the positive side of the curve. That we needed to study what works, not just what is broken.” – Shawn Achor
“Happiness is about learning how to cultivate the mindset and behaviors that have been empirically proven to fuel greater success and fulfillment.” – Shawn Achor
“Happiness asks us to be realistic about the present while maximizing our potential for the future.” – Shawn Achor
“Happiness is not just a mood — it’s a WORK ETHIC” – Shawn Achor
“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
“The belief that we are just our genes is one of the most pernicious myths in modern culture — the insidious notion that people come into the world with a fixed set of abilities and that they, and their brains, cannot change.” – Shawn Achor
“The most accurate term for happiness…is the one Aristotle used: eudaimonia, which translates not directly to ‘happiness’ but to ‘human flourishing’.” – Shawn Achor
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Peaceful:
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