Fall

This post is inspired by the book The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor. Within my first time sitting down with the book I already got this idea, so even though I haven’t even gotten through half the book, I do recommend it. Besides me trying to sell you a book #notsponsored, this post is about a misconception about happiness in correlation with success, the merits of happiness for success, and the concept of falling upwards. Most people are under the notion that once they achieve success, or complete an objective such as: losing those next five pounds, getting that next raise, whatever it may be, that they will gain happiness. That with success comes happiness. Here's the thing though, once you reach a goal, as humans do, we tend to make another bigger goal. In other words you're not ever gaining that happiness, you're trying to get a carrot on a stick while running on a treadmill. You're not getting anywhere closer to happiness, you just think you are. It's not very true that you'll find happiness once you get success, because as I've stated in previous posts, success is not success without happiness, it is a fallacious belief if you believe that happiness is a product of success. Happiness, health, wealth, and love are the factors that produce success, you cannot be successful without happiness, so there's no way you'll find happiness from success. If you can't find happiness after success, then when should you get it? In the process of succeeding. If you do this, the process will speed up, obviously if you love what you are doing and are elated by it, then you will do it with more zeal. If you do everything in a lethargic way, then the process will crash and burn, more or less succeed. There is data proving that people that are happy in their work get paid more, are better leaders, call in sick less, and are generally happier people. if your goal is money, then chase a job that will provide you happiness and you will rise to a point where you make a satiating amount of money. Besides that, job satisfaction rates are low (however with that said because of workplaces implementing positive reinforcements into companies, such as time off to exercise, meditate, or take a walk, so the rates are slowly rising), but there are still billions who don't like what they're doing. Now, if you want success, you need to eat that carrot so you can run faster, not chase it on a treadmill never getting anywhere. Lastly, falling upwards. The first thing I'd like to address is the gravitational destruction that failure brings. For my example I'll use students. If a student is doing very well at school, one failure will cause such a rupture, they will shut themselves in the library and study as hard as they can, stressing themselves out, and increasing anxiety. Which is not a positive thing at all. When you fail you should be talking to people more, relationships will help increase happiness and positivity, while shutting yourself in will cause an insidious fall to the doom of depression and sadness. What then should you do with failure? I'm gonna keep this quick because of how much I talk about it, learn from it, and grow from it, learn to love failing. Failure is one of the greatest helpers in the world, use it, love it, do not let it destroy you. When you fall, you need to fall upwards, fail, and then after failure, end up in a spot above where you were before. Fall upwards. That’s all I got for this post, I hope you enjoyed and got something out of it. Again, The Happiness Advantage great book, from it this writing was conceived, specifically talking about the misconception of happiness with success, how happiness can accelerate success, and falling upwards. There's a question that you've probably all heard before that relates to this as well. What came first the chicken or the egg? Let's change that; what comes first, success or happiness? Leaving you with that question, I hope you have an ecstatic week, I will see you in the next one, thank you for reading this. Peace. Original

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