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Celebrate Your Success Right Now
8 October 2013
Allison read Are You Celebrating Your Success? by Shawn Ellis and appreciated yet another story about the importance (and challenge) of celebrating what you’ve already achieved if you want to be happier and achieve even more.
Tags: allison read, happiness
At Allison Partners, we think happiness matters for individuals and organizations so we blog about it a lot. We also think happiness is more often than not a choice we can make no matter what else is happening around us. That’s a particularly tough thing to do when times are hard, but there is abundant research to support the belief that the challenge of choosing happiness is worth the effort.
I like Twitter for many reasons and am so glad I learned how to join the community in 2011. Yesterday one of my favorite happiness experts, Shawn Achor, re-Tweeted a blog post by Shawn Ellis about the importance of celebrating your success right now before you chase the next goal that you think will make you happier. As Ellis said in his Tweet, “Work hard >> Achieve success >> Experience happiness. The formula is wrong.” Ellis goes on to share a powerful discovery Achor made, “If you can raise somebody’s level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences what we now call a happiness advantage, which is your brain at positive performs significantly better than it does at negative, neutral or stressed. Your intelligence rises, your creativity rises, your energy levels rise; actually what we’ve found is that every single business outcome improves.”
What could you start celebrating about yourself and your organization right now?
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Shawn Ellis
Oct 14, 2013
Hi Allison - Thanks for reading and sharing this post. Sounds like we’re both fans of Shawn Achor! I’m glad to learn of your work, too.
Allison Partners
Oct 14, 2013
You’re very welcome, Shawn. We’re always glad to help spread the good news about how to get happy.
Shawn Achor
Nov 18, 2013
Thanks for sharing the research and helping to spread the ripple effect!
Allison Partners
Nov 19, 2013
We’re glad to help with the ripple effect, Shawn, and are great fans of your work. Rachel’s first blog post about happiness featured your book, The Happiness Advantage: www.allisonpartners.com/resources/entry/11_april_2011.