So, frequently people are told the opposite: become successful, and that will make you happy.
A lot of research has apparently suggested trying to reverse this instead: people become happy, then that helps them become successful:
"increased happiness leads to a 23% reduction in stress, 39% improvement in health and 31% improvement in productivity."
https://executivesupportmagazine.com/why-being-happy-will-make-you-more-successful/
However, I guess the question is about what makes people happy?
How do you become happy if you are not successful (or as successful as you'd like to be) and are stressed about that?
We've also seen plenty of people who are "successful", but are unhappy (thus confirming the common attitude that "success makes people happy" doesn't always work out for people).
I imagine there are a lot of happy people that are not successful too though, so I wonder how happiness might be tied to success in those cases where happiness does not lead to success.
But anyway, overall, how do you think people could be helped to become happy, in order to become more successful?
Researching this... I came away a bit uncertain of what to do. Some things were suggested, like gratitude journaling, which I think work out a bit.
I think one site suggested journaling about what makes you feel positive emotions and then about trying to increase the things you do that make you feel those emotions.
So like I was looking at a list of positive emotions like this: https://www.berkeleywellbeing.com/positive-emotions.html
and then thinking about times when I felt that way.
I think sometimes feeling negative emotions might be ideal, but because they can be disruptive as well, I was visualizing that you could start a day on a positive emotional note, go through the day dealing with some negative emotions, and then maybe end the day on a positive emotional note.
Has anyone experimented with things like this?
Thoughts on how being happy can lead people to become successful?
Its real simple, if an athlete goes in with a negative mindset “i suck, my team sucks, these other guys are gods” chances are he’s going to be shit on his performance. But if he trains with purpose, “Im going to get better to be the best that i can be and show the world what i can accomplish” or tells himself “yes Im good but i could be better, let’s work on getting better” chances are by the time he shows up the game he’s already got a winners mindset. Same goes in the office, if you’re depressed about deadlines and profit and spend the smoozing at the bar telling the bartender your woes then you go home and unleash your bs on the wife, she argues back, calls you a loser ect. Guess what; chances are you’re going to fail and be known as a loser, a quitter and soon find yourself collecting the shit at your desk in a box heading home to a toxic environment. But if you do your research, follow up on leads, follow the next big payday, go home with positive news about your progress to the wife or gf or whatever, fuck it could be your fucking hamster, who cares right, chances are you’ll at least perform better, yielding better results, be known as a winner and a leader that people want to network with and that’s how opportunities are found and success is made. This is the difference between role models of success and walking living corpses that get buried before they croak.