Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It's hard to find happiness after success if the goalposts of success keep changing.
Shawn Achor
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Shawn Achor
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 9
Author
Psychologist
Waco
Texas
Changing
Happiness
Success
Keep
Find
Hard
More quotes by Shawn Achor
The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.
Shawn Achor
You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.
Shawn Achor
Happiness inspires productivity.
Shawn Achor
Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Shawn Achor
Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.
Shawn Achor
The greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.
Shawn Achor
Focusing on the good isn’t just about overcoming our inner grump to see the glass half full. It’s about opening our minds to the ideas and opportunities that will help us be more productive, effective, and successful at work and in life.
Shawn Achor
The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential
Shawn Achor
If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.
Shawn Achor
Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.
Shawn Achor
You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
Shawn Achor
You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.
Shawn Achor
Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.
Shawn Achor
The absence of disease is not health.
Shawn Achor
By changing our mindset and habits, we can actually dramatically change the course of life, improve intelligence, productivity, improve the quality of our lives, and improve every single education and business outcome.
Shawn Achor
Study after study shows that happiness precedes important outcomes and indicators of thriving.
Shawn Achor
Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.
Shawn Achor
Successful people see adversity as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
Shawn Achor
..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.
Shawn Achor
Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.
Shawn Achor