Happiness Advantage

Spreading a Positive Story About Creating a Happier, More Productive, More Satisfying Life and Workplace.

Caught between two worlds, Spark was exactly like every other frog in his pond with one notable exception. Spark emerges from a tadpole with a slight but noticeable orange spot. And this orange spot makes Spark feel uncomfortably different. What’s more, Spark begins to make a disconcerting observation; when Spark does things that make him feel better (and produce more positive results) the orange spots increase. Spark is left with a difficult decision; be normal, which makes him less conspicuous, or continue doing those things that make him happier, more productive and… more orange.

So begins the parable of The Orange Frog, a disarming tale that serves as the starting point for the workshop Leading Positive Results™.

By the end of the story, readers see and feel pressures they recognize in their day-to-day life.

They also witness the most remarkable transformation that takes place when Spark finally chooses to adopt an orange way of life. Not only does his own personal satisfaction and productivity increase, these same results slowly start to ripple out to the other frogs in the pond.

~Excerpt from www.orangefrogbook.com

Seven Principles

Seven Principles

Principle #1: The Happiness Advantage

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.
Happiness boosters: meditation, looking forward to something, commit conscious acts of kindness, exercise, Spend money (but NOT on Stuff), exercise a Signature Strength, ..

Principle #2: The Fulcrum & The Lever

Changing your Peformance by changing your Mindset

Happiness is not about lying to ourselves, or turning a blind eye to the negative, but about adjusting our brain so that we see the ways to rise above our circumstances.
The mental construction of our daily activities, more than the activity itself, defines our reality.
The heart of the challenge is to stop thinking of the world as fixed when reality is, in truth, relative.

Principle #3 – The Tetris Effect

Training Your Brain to Capitalize on Possibility

Train your brain to scan the world for the opportunities and ideas that allow our success rate to grow.
The best way to kick-start this is to start making a daily list of the good things in your job, your career, and your life.

Principle #4 – Falling Up
Capitalizing on the downs to build Upward Momentum

Study after study shows that if we are able to conceive of a failure as an opportunity for growth, we are all the more likely to experience that growth
It’s about using that downward momentum to propel ourselves in the opposite direction. It’s about capitalizing on setbacks and adversity to become even happier, even more motivated, and even more successful. It’s not falling down, it’s falling up.

Principle #5 – The Zorro Circle
How Limiting Your Focus to Small, Manageable Goals Can Expand Your Sphere of Power

Feeling that we are in control, that we are masters of our own fate at work and at home, is one of the strongest drivers of both well-being and performance.
Happiness, and health have less to do with how much control we actually have and more with how much control we think we have.
No matter what you may have heard from motivational speakers, coaches, and the like, reaching for the stars is a recipe for failure.
As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, “Don’t write a book, write a page.

Principle #6 – The 20-Second Rule
How to Turn Bad Habits into Good Ones by minimizing Barriers to Change

Common sense is not common action….
That’s why even though doctors know better than anyone the importance of exercise and diet, 44 percent of them are overweight.
Our willpower weakens the more we use it.
The key to creating these habits is ritual, repeated practice, until the actions become ingrained in your brain’s neural chemistry. And the key to daily practice is to put your desired actions as close to the path of least resistance as humanly possible.

Principle #7 – Social Investment
Why Social support is your single Greatest asset

social relationships are the single greatest investment you can make in the Happiness Advantage.

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