An interesting article on the habits of the super happy including a great list at the end of busy, successful business people who meditate - such as the executive chairman of Ford, Rupert Murdoch, Oprah, Ray Dalio, Arianna Huffington and more. More meditators in business and politics means a better world.
In summary:
Martin Seligman suggests that 60% of happiness is determined by genes and environment, 40% is up to us. He breaks happiness down into three types:
1) Pleasant: Fill your life with as many pleasures as you can (hardly any contribution to lasting fulfillment).
2) Engagement: find a life in your work, parenting, love and leisure.
3) Meaningful life: Knowing what your highest strengths are, and using them to belong to and "in the service of something larger than you are."
2) Engagement: find a life in your work, parenting, love and leisure.
3) Meaningful life: Knowing what your highest strengths are, and using them to belong to and "in the service of something larger than you are."
Here are the main points of the article, which I recommend you read in full.
The super happy
- Surround themselves with happy people
- Smile when they mean it
- Cultivate resilience
- Work on being happy
- Are mindful of the good and appreciate the simple things
- They give of their time and spend money on other people
- They lose track of time!
- Prefer deeper conversations
- Uphold in person connection over “thinner” mediums like text and phone calls
- They listen
- Look on the bright side
- Listen to music – choosing the music they listen to
- Unplug
- Get spiritual
- Exercise
- Go outside
- Respect sleep
How about it? Time for some positive changes!
- LOL
- Even how you walk can have an impact
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