Thursday, June 12, 2014

Vision for the Dynamic Spread of Happiness


Imagine a world where you can see individual happiness on a global scale like we monitor gas and electricity.

Imagine a world where each person knows a clear understanding of happiness so it becomes natural like breathing air and drinking water.

Happiness becomes the same birth right and natural flow of life like breathing and drinking.

Imagine a world where older brothers and sisters who are working on advanced levels of contentment and bliss help their younger siblings achieve the basics of emotional empowerment, sustained positive mood and effortless resiliency. 

Imagine a world where organizations are public with the happiness of employees defined by a clear and standardized method of measuring emotional empowerment, positive mood, resiliency, contentment and bliss.

Imagine a world where hospitals offer methods of learning happiness science at the point of diagnosis since depression is likely to occur at that time. 

Depression hurts healing, happiness aids in healing.

Imagine a world where people no longer post ‘I want to kill myself” on the internet in hopes someone will save them.

Imagine families that thrive in their individual happiness instead of divorcing because your partner is not making you happy.

The world health organization predicts suicide to be the 2nd leading cause of mortality in 2020.  Suicide is caused by depression.  Depression is helped when positive psychology is adopted in daily lives.  It is taught in universities like Harvard, Stanford, and University of California yet it is being held from larger educational streams and the result is school shootings and increase in violence.

Imagine a world where people are taught how to be happy like how we learn math.

Empowerment = Arithmetic
Positive Mood =  Algebra
Resiliency =  Geometry
Contentment = Pre- Calculus
Bliss = Calculus

There are clear steps and clear answers.

Each step is interrelated as depicted in my Sustainable Happiness 5 Step Process Model ™




Happiness no longer is an elusive mirage you complain about behind 4 closed walls with a confidentiality agreement and a trained professional who could be depressed themselves!

Imagine a world where someone asks you “How are you?” and the answer “Happy!” does not shock them.

According to the National Institute of health, people seek 3-5 different methods to help them become happier. This means happiness has NO Direct KNOWN path of improvement.

According to the National Institute of Health, 25% of cases of Depression are treated effectively. This means WE ARE FAILING!

Depression is likely, treatment is wavering, results of suicide increasing.

Where is happiness science?!

I have a vision for a technology to be implemented based in the 20 years of happiness research I have been a part of.

My methods are endorsed by Dr. Tal Ben Shahar , first happiness professor of Harvard , Dr Sonja Lyubomirsky Happiness Increase Professor at UC Riverside, and a Psychiatrist / Diplomate of American Board of Psychiatry, Dr Walter Jacobson.

I have seen the benefits of happiness science cure mental and physical illness, I have seen flourishing from states of suicide. I have seen miracles happen for people who have given up hope and have done and seen it all.

From the standpoint of the individual, couple, family, community, organization, city, county, country and continental perspectives, I know we can teach happiness like math saving lives and changing the world.

I know we can improve the Global Well Being Index easily and systematically.

Would you like to contribute to this conversation?

Dr Aymee Coget
Sustainable Happiness Expert
Author of Forthcoming Book – Sustainable Happiness in 5 Steps

Sunday, February 9, 2014

3 Tips on How to Be Positive Around Complainers



The difference between complainers and people who don't complain- The non complainers feel empowered over their lives to make it the way they want.

The complaining state is one of discontent, unfulfillment, unease, and uncertainty. One where we have all experienced at some point of our lives.

When we are around complainers I offer a few tips to help the situation go in a positive direction.

1. BE OF SERVICE - Ask the person "How can I help you?" 
Being of service in a moment of discontent offers the person a sense of relief.  Hope may be near, change could occur with the help of someone else.  

2. USE YOUR HAPPINESS SHIELD - Respond with KLOGZ

Kindness - I admire ___
Love -  I accept ____
Optimism - I'm optimistic ___
Gratitude - I'm grateful ____
Zest - I'm excited ____

3. USE ADMIRATION, APPRECIATION, AFFECTION

I Admire ____
I Appreciate _____
<give Affection> - hug, high five, or rub on the shoulder, or if typing just mention affection.

Positive psychology offers us tools to use when it comes to combatting every day negativity within ourselves and those around us.

Let me know how it goes the next time you are around a complainer and you put these tools to use!

Upward spiral and away!

Happiness = High Productivity & Increased Sales


How well can you sustain your mood while at work? How many times do you experience stress at work? Even anger, frustration or yelling?!  

A meeting I had this past week was with a CEO who just yelled at someone right before he had a meeting with me about positivity in the workplace! 
The world works in mysterious ways! Finally, in 2010 the Journal of Management referenced a study where organizational happiness was the sum of employee happiness.
Numerous studies since 2005 have indicated happiness has a direct correlation with success.  
Mentioned in a recent post for Productivity Hacks, people looking to become more productive highlight the work of Management Professor Thomas Wright,
Thomas Wright, professor at Fordham University, claims employee happiness accounts for as much as 10-15 percent of the variance in performance between different employees. In a 40-hour week that could mean more than three-quarters of an hour in lost productivity, every day.

Happiness is a powerful key in maximizing productivity in the workplace. Gallup tells us that disengaged (unhappy) workers cost billions in lost productivity, whereas engaged (happy) employees are more profitable, more customer-focused, safer and more likely to stick around. In fact, organizations with a happy workforce have 20 percent higher profits (and a profitable company has greater resources to support its employees – so the cycle continues). At work, happy people are:

•          31 percent more productive
•          40 percent more likely to receive a promotion (people like happy people)
•          Less absent, with 23 percent fewer fatigue symptoms
•          Up to 10 percent more engaged at work
•          Able to sell more – happy sales people produce 37 percent greater sales

As people seeking productivity are being guided to becoming happier it would be helpful learn my 5 steps to Sustainable Happiness.  

Science has been quick to point out the benefits of being happy, to the individual and business.  Yet is still infantile when it comes to providing quick easy and long lasting solutions with measurable results.

Learn my 5 steps in order to become happier so you can reap the benefits of those who happen to be born happy.