It has been scientifically proven that success doesn’t lead to happiness … happiness leads to success. I just finished reading a book titled, “Flourish” by Martin Seligman, who many consider the father of positive psychology. In his research, he’s found that even though life is better
than it was 50 years ago, we’re actually 10 times more depressed as a society.

We have so much more so why don’t we have more happiness?
Seligman took a group of depressed people and asked them to spend a few minutes at the end of every day writing down three things that went well for them that day. Surprisingly, at the end of seven days their happiness scores went up.
Here’s why: one of the keys to becoming happier is focusing on what is right in our lives instead of what went wrong or what we don’t have.

Turns out the key to happiness isn’t having more, it’s having more awareness of what’s going well in our lives. Research shows that happy and successful people regularly take stock of what’s good. What would your life and business be like if you spent time focusing on the positives rather than the negatives?