Katie Macdonald | Readers’ Digest Online October 2013 Tell yourself you can change. “Happiness is not the belief you don’t need to change, it’s that you can change,” Achor says. Take a moment to notice the relationship between change and personal growth. Try this: “Write down the three greatest moments of change in your life that have brought you…
ERIN ZAMMETT RUDDY | RedBook August 2014 Illustrations by Ben Wiseman THERE YOU are, with your butt finally planted on a sandy beach after months of feeling like you might explode if you don’t get away. You spot a smiling, sun-kissed man. Look, it’s your husband, standing in the frothy surf. He motions for you to join him, and…
Amanda Baltazar | August 27, 2013 “If you’re happy in your job, you’re less likely to quit,” says Shawn Achor, one of the designers and teachers of Harvard University’s Happiness course, and author of Before Happiness, to be published this month. Most of us think that if we’re successful at work, we’ll be happy, but…
Jamie Stone | December 30, 2013 “The fastest way to accomplish a goal is to look back at previous successes, and the most successful leaders and professional athletes I’ve observed make success lists. Instead of writing a list of all you need to do, keep a running list of all the things you have done today. Our brain accelerates…
How to Set the Mood for a Positive Day Success, Shawn Achor January 12, 2018 Our physical environment can have an enormous impact on our well-being. Although we don’t have complete control over our surroundings, we can make specific efforts to infuse them with positivity. Think about your office: What feelings does it inspire? People who…
May 12, 2014 | Kira M. Newman for the National Edition When I picked up Shawn Achor’s book Before Happiness, I thought I was reading a book about positivity. It turns out, it’s also a book about success – and I shouldn’t have been surprised. Achor’s famous TED talk explains why our ideas about work…
Jeffrey Goldsmith with Shawn Achor | May 28, 2013 The secret to a more productive, creative, and flexible workforce? M&Ms, thank-you cards, and whatever else makes them smile. In a psychological study, 44 internists are given a hypothetical patient file, including a misdiagnosis from another hospital, and asked to decipher the medical problem at hand. Half of…
Tiffany Sun – Happify | January 7, 2014 Everyone dreads Monday mornings, but researchers say that the most stressful day of the week for many office workers is actually Tuesday. More precisely, Tuesday at 10 AM—just when assignments and projects are picking up steam, deadlines are looming, and you really have to get down to business…
Harvey Schachter | Special to The Globe and Mail Oct. 10 2013 Too much noise can knock you off balance. That’s the warning from Shawn Achor, San Antonio, Tex.-based author of the bestselling book The Happiness Advantage and the recently published Before Happiness. But Mr. Achor is not talking about the noise of a neighbour’s stereo blasting away…
Three Things You Think Will Make You Happier at Work (But Won’t) The Guardian, Charlotte Seager March 28, 2016 For many of us, work’s not working out. Mundane tasks, too much to do and the nagging feeling that your job may be, well, meaningless – mean that 47% of people in the UK want to change jobs.…
