HAA Blog

We’ve been taught that the secret to happiness is to work hard, put in extra effort, and then we will be happy – then we will have time to go out for happy hour. Turns out that the “secret to success” we were taught is backwards. When we put the happiness off until the end of our goals, it makes us less productive.

Happy workers are smarter, more motivated and therefore more successful. Studies have shown that when we turn this formula around and rewrite the secret to success, we have 37 percent greater sales, are 31 percent more productive, 40 percent more likely to receive a promotion and three times more creative. It turns out that happy people are more likely to live longer and even have 23 percent fewer fatigue symptoms!

Alexis Bierman, social media adviser for GoodThinkInc., provided an article for the December ABODE about how pursuing happiness can pump up your productivity. Read more about how we can increase our level of happiness in a number of ways throughout each day in the December ABODE, or visit GoodThinkInc.com or biermanandco.com for more information.