Learn about the impact of happiness in your personal and professional life. We're going to dream! We're going to celebrate! We're going to explore possibility and progress with how to make things happen. Did you know there is a happiness advantage for both personal and professional growth?! Happiness has the potential be a competitive advantage.

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2. Happiness
Learn about the impact of happiness in
your personal and professional life.
Presented by Denise Reed

3. HAPPINESS is:
● a state of well-being and contentment
● a pleasurable or satisfying experience
Reference: Merriam-Webster

4. HAPPINESS IS PERSONAL
Shawn Achor, one of the world's leading experts in happiness. Shawn spent 12 years at Harvard University formally
studying how happiness and success connect. He's given a TED talk with 14,997,348 views! He's also written New York
Times best-selling books, The Happiness Advantage (2010) and Before Happiness (2013). He's even been on Oprah!

5. Happiness is a mindset
● You must be determined to be happy.
● Happiness is up to you and no one else.
○ Stretch out your arm.
○ Face your palm away from your face to stop outside influence - you have no control from your
palm outward.
○ Face your palm toward your face, you have control from your palm to your body! You have
control of your thoughts.
● Focus on happiness, not the negative.

6. HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS
Shawn Achor found happiness fuels success!

7. HAPPY?

8. HAPPINESS PLAN OF ACTION
● Happiness mindset: write out what makes you happy.
● Determine how you’re going to create more happiness opportunities, even if
it’s a “small step.”
● Need a boost? Try The Happiness Advantage Action Plan Guide
by Shawn Achor.
● Consider happiness training with a Google application: Happify
You have control over how you want to feel!

9. Presented by:
Denise Reed
www.DeniseReed.is
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