Happiness and Science Finally Get it Right!

Don’t you just love it when you get something right?

Scientists have finally made a measurable connection between positive thinking and happiness. More than money, family, pets, or security, what makes us most happy is actually going through a process of noticing what makes us happy, and then try to think WHY those happy things occured.

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The result, common sense tells us (and now science too) is that this type of exercise is that through our ENTIRE day we concentrate on the good things that happen. (Because we’ll have to report them later.) And when we focus on the good, the bad becomes less important.

Every night, she was to think of three good things that happened that day and analyze why they occurred. That was supposed to increase her overall happiness.

“I thought it was too simple to be effective,” said Miller, 44, of Bethesda. Md. “I went to Harvard. I’m used to things being complicated.”

I’ve been telling this to my audiences forever. My game is to play “How Cool is That!?” (You can HEAR me describe this game here: https://www.bradmontgomery.com///bonus )

I’m so glad for this news… this will be one of the three things today that made ME happy.

Cheers!

Brad Montgomery
Motivational Keynote Speaker, Humorist Comedian, Happy Guy

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