Three Scientifically Proven Ways to Boost Happiness
According to a study in Harvard Business Review, happy people are 31% more productive, 3 times more creative and produce 37% higher sales. Plus, you know, they’re happy, so there’s that too. 
(Just sayin’.)
Here are three scientifically-proven ways to boost your happiness:
1. Three, 30-minute walks a week, have a substantial impact on our happiness, even helping people recover from clinical depression. Throw in a little ‘ma nature’ with a walk in a park or forest and get even better results!
2. Taking 20 minutes to write about a positive experience dramatically boosts happiness because writing it down allows us to relive the experience, immerses ourselves in it, and it helps us remember the positive people and happy events from our past.
3. Perform a random act of kindness. Research by Martin Seligman, author of Authentic Happiness, shows that performing a random act of kindness produces the single most reliable momentary boost in well-being, more so than anything else the researchers tested. Some of my clients actually hold Random Acts of Kindness theme days where either internally, or externally by heading out into the streets, they celebrate the happiness-boosting benefits of spreading kindness.
Michael Kerr, June, 2020. Michael Kerr is a Hall of Fame business speaker, trainer, and the author of 7 books. Michael travels the world researching, writing, and speaking about inspiring workplace cultures that drive outrageous results!
