The more you connect with
other happy people, the better.
When we play we kick our minds into imagination mode, and we tap into that powerful charge we get from positive experiences with
other happy people.
We know from research, and you will know anecdotally, that the happiest people tend to have lots of friends, build supportive relationships and often spend time with
other happy people.
Surrounding yourself with
other happy people can hike your odds of being upbeat by 9 %, studies show.
Not exact matches
If you're completely
happy playing small and asking
other people for more money every year or so, owning a franchise isn't right for you.
I want to do what fulfills me, because if I'm
happy with myself, I can make
other people happy.»
So spending money on
other people makes us
happier than buying stuff for ourselves.
I'm
happy that I've been able to build this stage and let
other people perform on it.
According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money
people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on
others are
happier than those who do not.
«The companies that survive are the ones that work out what they uniquely can give to the world — not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for
others, or their ability to make
people happy.»
Doing something — doing anything — that most
other people can not or will not do will make you prouder, more fulfilled, and a lot
happier.
People who spend time with other people tend to be happier, but equally important is with whom who they spend
People who spend time with
other people tend to be happier, but equally important is with whom who they spend
people tend to be
happier, but equally important is with whom who they spend time.
Over time, as
people became more and more aware of the effects commonly used products can have on the environment, plastic -
happy clients who once cared mostly for cost and convenience morphed into savvy customers with real concerns about the impact polyethylene and
other petroleum - based products have on the ecosystem.
Be
happy for
other people and their happiness.
While unhappy customers might create a stink (which is really bad, to be honest),
happy (think ecstatic) customers refer you to
other people and tell them how awesome you are.
As I've argued before, self - awareness is also the meta - skill of the 21st century: Among
other benefits, self - aware
people are
happier with their careers and relationships, are better students, perform better at work and run more profitable companies.
People who enjoy a sincere connection with
others online are
happier than those fixated on image and marketing.
And responses showed that we self - employed folks are markedly
happier than
other working
people.
This means The initial customer service agentif you were the first
person to speak with a customer, while you can and should involve
others people towho can help resolve the customer's problem, they should stay personally engaged and involved until the customer is
happy.
After performing the same happiness - inducing activities, the
people who signed up for the happiness study — the group Lyubomirsky saw as more «motivated» to become
happier — gained more from the study than those who signed up for the
other exercise.
If that sounds like a familiar point, it's the exact conclusion of the 75 - year Harvard Grant Study, which found that the number - one thing
people need in order to be fulfilled and
happy is to develop relationships with
other people.
Zuckerberg and Sandberg have been
happy to amass great wealth and power relying upon
other people's money and the public's trust, but they do not want to be accountable to those who supply the needed resources.
that it also works the
other way around:
people who imitate a
happy style of walking, even without realizing it, find themselves feeling
happier.»
Many
people think if they earn enough money to buy expensive cars, clothes, electronics and
other things, they will be
happy.
«Now, a new study finds that it also works the
other way around:
people who imitate a
happy style of walking, even without realizing it, find themselves feeling
happier.»
Then you have the
other side of the equation:
people who are
happy with life as it is.
I knew the
people on the
other side had more resources, more money,
happier families.
This is why some
people are
happy in war and
others are sad at weddings.
And when the phone rang, most callees were
happy to give a few minutes of their time and their opinions to the
person on the
other end of the line.
People who don't compare themselves to
others and instead think about their own business goals are the
happiest, Wong writes.
I'm the sort of
person who is always
happy to weigh in with an opinion, but then I'm always open to having my opinion evolve depending on new information and what I've learned from
others.
Ma told employees at a press conference that he hopes they use their newfound wealth to become «a batch of genuinely noble
people, a batch of
people who are able to help
others, and who are kind and
happy.»
Stephen Covey, the author of «7 Habits of Highly Effective
People,» said, «Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.&
People,» said, «Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When
people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.&
people are genuinely
happy at the successes of
others, the pie gets larger.»
Leaders, on the
other hand, are typically not the
happiest people around because they are always living in the future.
This might explain why an extrovert is stimulated more by external forces, namely
other people, and introverts are
happy in their own head.
Treating each
other well, being respectful to each
other, building a culture you actually want to live in, these are all things that make
people happier, and in the end, more productive.
Happy Melly is a collection of people hands - on resources to help you learn how to be happy at work and to empower you to help others achieve job satisfac
Happy Melly is a collection of
people hands - on resources to help you learn how to be
happy at work and to empower you to help others achieve job satisfac
happy at work and to empower you to help
others achieve job satisfaction.
So when one
person gets a raise, it might make him
happy, but it'll make
other people jealous.»
Happy people do better work, better work yields fabulous results, and fabulous results are bound to make your Mondays — and every
other day — suck less too.
And whereas some psychologists find that high scores on certain cognitive tests correlate in older
people with the ability to keep their spirits up,
other researchers hypothesize that happiness in later life is an effect of cognitive losses — which force older
people to concentrate on simpler,
happier thoughts.
A partnership between Office Nomads, GCUC, and Emergent Research, the survey found, among
other things, that coworking makes
people happier.
Anyway, I stand by my belief that if you are a
happy person with a healthy dose of self - esteem, it's hard to tell
others to f off once you have f you money.
«Everything we would get in terms of a signal from
other people who knew him or knew
people around him was that generally Google was super not
happy, unpumped, about us doing this.»
And of course adults frequently forget to seek options that will keep each side
happy — that is, one
person gets to «win» while the
other «participates»; then they change places so the
other person can «win.»
Rich
people just meet rich
people and talk about business, and they will tell each
other when they are
happy or unhappy with their banking providers.
(Surveys, lab experiments, and brain readings all show that, for better or worse, schadenfreude is a powerful psychological force: at any fixed level of income,
people are
happier when the income of
others is reduced.)
Seeing
other people happy because of something that you did is one of the most rewarding feelings for some
people.
And
other officials in this leaky, backbiting White House have been
happy to tell the Times — and plenty of
other reporters — exactly which
people those are.
Although this was not as high as the return
other people posted here, I was pretty
happy.
Jordan points to a quote by Montesquieu: «If we only wanted to be
happy it would be easy; but we want to be
happier than
other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them
happier than they are.»