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?