By Matthew Brooke To folks who consider happiness as a “nice to have” extravagance or something that comes after a lifetime of sacrifice toward achieving a goal. Happiness isn’t just about feeling good, it’s about the joy we feel while striving after our potential. By electing modest cheerfu...

By Matthew Brooke

To folks who consider happiness as a “nice to have” extravagance or something that comes after a lifetime of sacrifice toward achieving a goal. Happiness isn’t just about feeling good, it’s about the joy we feel while striving after our potential. By electing modest cheerful habits that take no longer than combing your hair, can boost your mood and raise your happiness too. This elevated morale results in a healthier and more productive you.

The high-tech revolution allows us to have information at a rapid pace. We’ve been able to understand the human brain better than ever. Happiness is such an incredible advantage in our life. When the human brain is positive, our intelligence rises, we stop diverting resources to think about anxiety. Productive energy rises by 31 percent. The likelihood of promotion rises by 40 percent. Sales rise by 37 percent. Positive thoughts and attitudes are able to prompt changes in your body that strengthen your immune system, boost positive emotions, decrease pain and chronic disease. Evidence even suggests that happiness, optimism, life satisfaction, and other positive psychological attributes are associated with a lower risk of heart disease. It is scientifically revealed that happiness can go as far as to alter your genes. Researchers at University at California of Los Angeles (UCLA) showed that people with a deep sense of happiness and well-being had lower levels of inflammatory gene expression and stronger anti-viral and anti-body responses.

Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting it off until they’re successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. This model clearly exhibits major faults. The paramount competitive advantage in our contemporary economy is a positive and engaged brain. This encouraging model incentivizes boosting happiness for our kids for more reasons than we may have even considered.

It also proves beneficial to choose it in our own lives, instead of continually pushing off happiness, hoping it will happen to us based upon our successes. One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.