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It’s easy to simplify happiness and claim that it’s obvious
that successful people are happy. However, if you really interviewed 100
successful people, you may be surprised that a large percentage of them are not
as happy as you think they ought to be. The fact is, you can be a millionaire,
have a wonderful spouse, great kids, and everything you think you want and
still not be happy. The truth is happiness fuels success.
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Happiness
Leads to More Productivity – When people are happy with the work, they do
they tend to be willing to do it a lot more, even for free. Assuming other
needs (food, shelter, health) are met a happy person can find joy doing the most
mundane things because they can focus on outcomes instead of just what they are
doing.
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Happiness
Leads to Higher Profits – In companies that keep their employees happy by
offering a living wage, benefits, and a flexible schedule the profits tend to
be a lot higher. One reason is that when a person feels respected in their job
even if the work is hard, they are happier about doing it.
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Happiness
Leads to Stability – When people are happy, they tend to be a lot more
stable, stick to tasks longer, and are more likely to complete an assignment. In
addition, they tend to job hop a lot less. This is one reason smart employers
know that by making work a happy place they can reduce turn over.
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Happiness
Leads to a Better Work Ethic – Most people think of work ethic as something
you must suffer to experience, but for happy people, they tend to stick to
their jobs longer and work even harder. The main reason is that they have the
energy to do it and can envision the outcomes more positively.
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Happiness
Is Not About Wealth – Everyone knows someone who has plenty of money but is
not happy and maybe even hateful. They seem to have everything but happiness.
Because of this fact, it’s clear that being happy doesn’t always directly
correlate to the circumstances you find yourself in regarding your bank account
balance.
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Happiness
Colors the Lens by Which You See Life – The surprising truth about
happiness is that if you practice happiness it will begin to affect how you see
everything in the world. You’ll be able to pick out the most positive things no
matter the situation.
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Happiness
is About Today – Happiness is really all about today. If you’re happy today,
you’re more likely to eat right, move more, get your work done, and do
everything well. Naturally, that is going to affect the future too.
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Happiness
is a Mindset – It’s hard to imagine it is true, but it is. Happiness is
about your mindset. Thankfully, with work, you can train your mindset to be
happier and more positive despite your current circumstances.
While bad things do happen to good people and can bring them
down, the truth is, happiness can be experienced by most anyone regardless of
where they are in life right now in terms of their success. It just requires
that you accept that you can be happy, right now, without anything changing
while also developing plans to make changes.
Over a month ago was my birthday and I wrote a post On the Verge of 40. In it, I describe my feelings of insecurity, doubt, worry, and generally being unsure. My vow was to focus on feeling that I am enough as I am. I have actually, to my surprise, thought of this every day and tried to squash out those feelings of inadequacy whenever they pop up. Or I've tried to figure what the root cause of what that feeling is and attempted to rectify it. 
