Is there a direct connection between having happy workers and improved profitability?
A new addition of the “100 Best Companies To Work For” is released every year around this time. In this report employers deemed to have the happiest and most satisfied workers are heartily celebrated by the media.
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There is more in live than being happy.
Viktor Frankl, a prominent Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist in Vienna, was arrested and transported to a Nazi concentration camp with his wife and parents in September 1942. When his camp was liberated three years later, most of his family, including his pregnant wife, had perished, but Frankl, prisoner number 119104, had lived. In Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl’s bestselling 1946 book, he wrote in nine days about his experiences in the camps, he concluded that the difference between those who had lived and those who had died came down to one thing: Meaning, an insight he came to early in life. When he was a high school student, one of his science teachers declared to the class, “Life is nothing more than a combustion process, a process of oxidation.” Frankl jumped out of his chair and responded, “Sir, if this is so, then what can be the meaning of life?”
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It’s almost impossible for anyone to continue to choose a life of tedious grief after becoming fully enlightened to the fact that ineffectiveness is a choice, even among the most ineffective of us. It is the direct outcome of unproductive beliefs and behaviors.
So here are nine things to stop believing:
Happiest people live in Latin American countries.
Qatar is the richest county in the world but the world’s happiest people don’t live there. They don’t live in Japan either, the country with the highest life expectancy. With a chart-topping percentage of college graduates in Canada, they didn’t make the top 10 of the happiest people in the world either.
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Looks like having kids may not make you miserable after all.
Based on early research, the conventional wisdom that’s developed over the past few decades has been that parents are less happy, more depressed and have less-satisfying marriages than their childless counterparts.
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Happiness has to be allowed.
What is the difference between happy people and unhappy people? Of course, it may be very obvious, happy people are happy while unhappy people are unhappy, right? Well, that is correct, but we want to know what are the things that these people do differently and that is why, I have put together a list of things that HAPPY people do differently than UNHAPPY people…
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No-hour work week.
The 9 to 5 workday is outdated. Happy workers are more healthy and more creative, so it’s time to start giving our workers the leeway to be happy (because otherwise they work all the time). The secret: Treat them like people.
Continue reading… “The 9 to 5 is dead – redesigning work for the modern economy”
Watching a tragedy movie caused people to think about their own close relationships, which in turn boosted their life happiness.
People enjoy watching tragedy movies like “Titanic” because they deliver what may seem to be an unlikely benefit: tragedies actually make people happier in the short-term.
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Ambitious people are unhappier.
A new study found while people who are ‘go-getters’ are more likely to attend prestigious universities and hold high-paying jobs, they are only slightly happier than their less-ambitious counterparts—and actually live shorter lives.
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Understanding well-being is important because it has such strong influence on the choices we make.
Hawaii comes out on top in a new ranking of which state’s residents have the best sense of overall well-being, based on physical health, happiness, job satisfaction and other factors that affect quality of life.
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Marriage offers little benefit over simply living together without wedding rings.
We’ve all heard married people are happier, but that might not be a reason to rush to get married, according to a new study.
Continue reading… “Cohabitating couples are happier than married couples”
Eight ways money can buy happiness.
Harvard happiness expert Daniel Gilbert (author of the bestseller Stumbling on Happiness) spells out 8 ways we can spend our money to increase happiness.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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