Happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
~ Shawn Achor
You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
As Harvard Business School professor Peter Bregman advises, 'Don't write a book, write a page...Don't expect to be a great manager in your first six months, just try to set expectations well.
Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part.
Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.
Here was someone who had dismissed most of what I had just been saying as too obvious to even discuss, yet apparently it wasn't obvious enough. I realized that he was the living embodiment of one of the greatest paradoxes of human behavior:Common sense is not common action.
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
