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Hardwired for Happiness

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Hardwired for Happiness

9 Proven Practices to Overcome Stress and Live Your Best Life

Houndstooth Press,

15 min read
8 take-aways
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Take your well-being into your own hands with research-backed habits that promote greater happiness, compassion, and fulfillment.

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If you’re struggling to feel happy, you may blame external circumstances for your low mood. But according to Ashish Kothari — who coaches leaders and teams in boosting their happiness levels and achieving their goals — you have the power to shift into a more positive mood. Learn about research-backed practices you should embrace to experience more contentment, well-being, career success, and spiritual fulfillment. Kothari offers tips on how to stop letting life happen to you and to claim your agency instead, to design a more happy, purpose-driven life.

Summary

Boosting your happiness levels starts with strengthening self-awareness.

When people are unhappy, it’s often their mindset that’s to blame: According to happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky, you can attribute high happiness levels to your mindset 50% of the time, to the choices you have consciously made 40% of the time, and to external circumstances only 10% of the time. If you’re struggling to feel happy, consider transforming your mindset and making better daily choices by applying research-backed practices you can easily integrate into your existing routines.

The first practice you should adopt is the cultivation of greater self-awareness, or “the ability to observe the observer.” When you’re self-aware, you’re able to zoom out and view your current context and situation more objectively, a skill that has several research-backed health benefits, such as reducing stress, increasing resilience and well-being, and strengthening the ability to achieve your goals. Consider adopting a daily journaling habit to master self-awareness. For example, perhaps you opt to reflect on situations that trigger you...

About the Author

Ashish Kothari is the founder of the company Happiness Squad, which helps people and organizations achieve their full potentials, while increasing happiness.

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