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ISSUE 825 - June 3, 2020 |
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3 Scientifically Proven Ways to Boost Your Happiness |
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According to a study in Harvard Business Review, happy people are 31% more productive, 3 times more creative and produce 37% higher sales. Plus, you know, they're happy, so there's that too. (Just sayin'.)
Here are three scientifically-proven ways to boost your happiness:
1. Three, 30-minute walks a week, have a substantial impact on our happiness, even helping people recover from clinical depression. Throw in a little 'ma nature' with a walk in a park or forest and get even better results!
2. Taking 20 minutes to write about a positive experience dramatically boosts happiness because writing it down allows us to relive the experience, immerses ourselves in it, and it helps us remember the positive people and happy events from our past.
3. Perform a random act of kindness. Research by Martin Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness, shows that performing a random act of kindness produces the single most reliable momentary boost in well-being, more so than anything else the researchers tested. Some of my clients actually hold Random Acts of Kindness theme days where either internally, or externally by heading out into the streets, they celebrate the happiness-boosting benefits of spreading kindness.
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Mike's Fun at Work Tip |
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A fun alternative to using a polling feature on your virtual meetings is to have a quick scavenger hunt where you give all participants one minute to find the nearest red, yellow, and green objects they can use as their voting proxies. For example, vote RED (hold up your red object) if you think we should ____, GREEN for ____ etc. You can also offer up a small prize to whoever comes up with the most
unusual object.
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Quote of the Week |
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“Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry and makes it easier to swallow.” Diane Johnson
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It's a Wacky World |
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A group of Calgary, Alberta students has created a joke hotline to help lift spirits during the pandemic. The hotline was created especially with isolated seniors in mind, who can phone in to hear prerecorded stories, jokes, and messages delivered by children.
Joy4All has garnered international attention, including a mention on James Corden's Late Late Show. Comedian Billy Crystal even reached out and donated some corny, g-rated dad jokes for them to include on their hotline.
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