Want to be more productive? Focus on happiness. - The Week
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Happiness increases productivity
If we're really going to be motivated, we need to feel something. Having a rational goal in mind or thinking you want something isn't enough.
Chip and Dan Heath say that the emotional mind is key in their book Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard:
Focus on emotions. Knowing something isn't enough to cause change. Make people (or yourself) feel something.
Research shows happiness increases productivity and makes you more successful.
Helping to create an environment of positive reciprocity at work simply by being accommodating is what I see in action where I work. And it works!
10:05 AM Dec 10 2014