Jena Pincott | Oprah.Com They’re Always In Countdown Time The best part about vacation may be…the anticipation. Research finds that the weeks leading up to a break yield even more bliss than the afterglow of one. This may explain why your happiest colleagues plan miniholidays every three to four months (instead of, say, one long vacation in…
Tiffany Sun – Happify | January 7, 2014 Everyone dreads Monday mornings, but researchers say that the most stressful day of the week for many office workers is actually Tuesday. More precisely, Tuesday at 10 AM—just when assignments and projects are picking up steam, deadlines are looming, and you really have to get down to business…
Jamie Stone | December 30, 2013 “The fastest way to accomplish a goal is to look back at previous successes, and the most successful leaders and professional athletes I’ve observed make success lists. Instead of writing a list of all you need to do, keep a running list of all the things you have done today. Our brain accelerates…
Lisa Evans | Entrepreneur.com December 18, 2013 With the New Year in sight, you may be starting to think about making resolutions. While entrepreneurs often think success will bring happiness, happiness expert Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage (2010: Crown Business) and Before Happiness (2013: Crown Business) says it’s actually the other way around. Having a sunny outlook can help…
December, 2013 Success brings happiness, right? In fact there is evidence that it’s the other way round: be happy and you are more likely to be successful. The ‘happiness first’ philosophy undermines everything the well-brought-up leader has been trained to believe: eat your dinner before you can have your dessert, work hard and then you…
Kathy Caprino | December 04, 2013 One of the things I love most about my work is that my fascinating, knowledgeable clients teach me things I’m excited to learn. Recently a client shared with me the riveting TED talkby the world’s leading positive psychology expert and bestselling author Shawn Achor onThe Happy Secret to Better Work.…
Laura Shin | Forbes Contributor November 30, 2013 Few deadlines are quite like the end of the year. Just as we are trying, in the home stretch, to do our best at work to nail that bonus, raise or promotion, we’ve got social events heating up, family events crowding in, and travel and all its various…
Harvey Schachter | Special to The Globe and Mail Oct. 10 2013 Too much noise can knock you off balance. That’s the warning from Shawn Achor, San Antonio, Tex.-based author of the bestselling book The Happiness Advantage and the recently published Before Happiness. But Mr. Achor is not talking about the noise of a neighbour’s stereo blasting away…
Katie Macdonald | Readers’ Digest Online October 2013 Tell yourself you can change. “Happiness is not the belief you don’t need to change, it’s that you can change,” Achor says. Take a moment to notice the relationship between change and personal growth. Try this: “Write down the three greatest moments of change in your life that have brought you…
Rick Ferri | September 18, 2013 One of the keys to investment success is to avoid the noise. Investment noise is the constant drumbeat of extraneous information that we’re all subjected to day in and day out. It comes to us via the financial press, the internet and even in the workplace. Ignore this noise…
