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The Happiness Equation

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The Happiness Equation

Want Nothing + Do Anything = Have Everything.

Or stated another way: Contentment + Freedom = Happiness

In his best selling book, The Happiness Equation, Neil Pasricha provides nine secrets to get us to happiness.

  1. Be happy first. Instead of trying to do great work, to have a big success and then be happy instead, try to be happy which will result in great work and success.
  2. Do it for you. Find what you love to do and then do it because it brings you satisfaction, not for the money or fame. If those things come then it’s all gravy.
  3. Remember the Lottery. There are about 7 billion people on earth and 115 billion who have ever lived. That means 14 out of every 15 people who have ever existed are already dead. Just being alive means you have already won.
  4. Never Retire. Don’t allow your age to determine when you stop working. Learn to practice what the Okinawans call ikigai (pronounced “icky guy”), which means “the reason you wake up in the morning.”
  5. Overvalue you. Don’t judge a salary by the year but understand the hourly rate. For example, if you are a Harvard MBA working for a big consulting firm making $120,000 yearly versus a school teacher making $45,000 a year, you will be surprised to learn both are making the same hourly wage.
  6. Create space. Breaking your time into four quadrants of Burn, Space, Doing and Thinking – just make sure you are not spending the majority of your time in the burn quadrant or else you can burn your self out. Learn to take time to make some space for yourself to clear your mind.
  7. Just do it. This is similar to The Five Second Rule by Mel Robbins in that you just do it. Most people first ask can they do it, do they want to do it and then they consider doing it. But we should just do it first, then review what you have done and then determine if you want to do it again. Remember, motivation doesn’t cause action. Action causes motivation.
  8. Be you. The relationship you have with yourself is your most important relationship. Strive for harmony in what you think, say, and do. In the book, he describes three simple tests: The Saturday Morning Test, The Bench Test, and the Five People Test. Buy the book so you can learn and apply these tests to your life.
  9. Don’t take advice. Hear it, but decide what to do yourself. Every piece of advice you receive, you can receive the opposite advice and both can be compelling and true. For example, “birds of a feather flock together” is a cliche we are all familiar with. But so is, “opposites attract.” As my good friend the late Wayne Dywer always would say, “learn to become independent of the good opinion of other people.“

With the equation of Contentment + Freedom = Happiness and applying these nine secrets, you will have an amazing life filled with self-satisfaction and happiness.

To receive your free Happiness Equation Key Resources please visit the Institute for Global Happiness.

Find Your Dream Job

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“Choose a job you love and you will never work a day in your life” – Confucius

As a business architect, my interest is in designing strategies that help people achieve their goals. In his Ted Talk, Shane Lopez provides you with strategies to help you design the job of your dreams.

Shane is a psychologist and wrote the bestselling book: Positive Psychology: An Exploration of Human Strengths. He lists 5 design keys to crafting your dream job. In other words, taking your current job and making the subtle changes to make it better.

Test drive your future – This means to take time to dream about your future and what you want to achieve. Unfortunately, many people stop dreaming once they land the job and they focus on allowing the job to shape their future instead of shaping the job to ensure it provides joy and happiness.

Trust your gut – This means to spend more face time with those people on the job that help your career and you feel good about and less face time with those who don’t.

Play to your strengths – Shane says, “doing what you do best makes you feel better and work better.”

Kraft your job – in such a way that it works for your rhythm. For example, if you are more detailed oriented in the morning then make sure all your analytic work is scheduled in the morning and then push off answer emails into the afternoon. Design a day that works for you.

Shop for a Good Boss – spend your time looking for a great boss to work for and do what it takes to work for that boss if possible. I also recommend that if you can’t work for that boss directly then make that boss your mentor.

“Happiness depends or the goodness or our jobs, and those jobs are made and not found” – Shane Lopez

Please enjoy the video and tell me what you think. What techniques do you use to improve the quality of your job?

What is Your Career Strategy?

In today’s challenging job market, no single set of rules can be followed to ensure that you will be successful or not lose your job because of a merger, a layoff, outsourcing, or automation. You can, however, use certain skills to enhance the odds of having career success and reduce the odds of becoming marginalized or unemployed. Furthermore, if you do lose your job, taking the following suggestions can greatly increase your odds of finding a new job in less time and with less financial and personal stress.

If I could sum up the secrets to succeeding in your job in two rules, the first would be to work smart and the second would be to work hard at working smart. To me, working smart is about having a plan to reach your goal and then working hard every day in the execution of that plan. True winners plan for success. The hard work is in the planning and the execution of your plan. This is where most fail, because they fail to plan. Furthermore, if they do plan, they don’t put enough effort into the execution of the plan. In this chapter, you will learn the fundamentals of planning a successful career and some techniques for executing and refining your plan along the way. 

When Corporate Sh*t Happens provides a roadmap for every stage of your career.

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Are you over 40 and worried about age discrimination in the workplace or the possibility that your skills may no longer be marketable if you lose your job?

Are you a about to graduate or a recent graduate from a great school and you can’t find an employer that wants to hire you?

Are you working in a job that matches what you love to do and are good at?

Would you like to receive the highest job rating and the largest raise possible each year because you are considered a top performer?

Would you like to be the first to know when your company is in trouble months before layoffs are announced?

If you did survive the first round of layoffs, do you know what to do to survive subsequent rounds and how that would that affect your work/life balance?

If you lose your job would you be prepared emotionally and financially to make your time between jobs meaningful and beneficial, and then bounce back with a better job and a higher salary?

These are the main questions every person should be able to answer in today’s world of global competition, workforce automation, and job outsourcing. They say it is better to learn from others than to figure it out on your own.

My new book, When Corporate Sh*t Happens provides you with proven strategies to succeed in corporate America when shit happens, and at some point in your career, it may happen to you.

For more information please www.burpeebillionaire.com

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Success Strategy: Learn to Sell

In business, nothing happens until something is sold. If there are no sales, there is no business. Therefore, you should take any opportunity to sell your company’s products. Sales are the best way to learn about your company, its products, and the customers who purchase your company’s goods and services. It is no accident that most corporate CEOs come up through the ranks in sales.

Although not everyone in a company can be in sales, every employee can be a salesperson for the company’s products. For example, if you work in information technology for an insurance company and you have friends who need insurance, you should try to sell them on your company’s goods and services. Put your friends in contact with a sales representative from your company. The sales rep will thank you, and you may even get a referral commission if the sale is made.

You need to know not only your own job—be it accounting, finance, information technology, or human resources—but also your company’s goods and services. You must be willing to explain and sell these products to anyone, anytime, and anywhere. This type of attitude transforms you from an employee into a partner, and partners make the difference in a company. Employees come and go, but partners are individuals who strongly believe in a company and will do everything they can to make the company successful. Workers who have the partner mentality are routinely found in the top 5 percent of a company’s performance rankings.

The above was from the book, “When Corporate Sh*t Happens: Proven Career Strategies to Survive, Thrive and Succeed“

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When Corporate Shit Happens

Are you a about to graduate or a recent graduate  from a great school and you can’t find an employer that wants to  hire you?

Are you over 40 and worried about age discrimination in the workplace or the possibility that your skills may no longer be marketable if you lose your job?

 Are you working in a job that matches what you love to do and are good at?

Would you like to receive the highest job rating and the largest raise possible each year because you are considered a top performer?

Would you like to be the first to know when your company is in trouble months before layoffs are announced?

If you did survive the first round of layoffs, do you know what to do to survive subsequent rounds and how that would that affect your work/life balance?

If you lose your job would you be prepared emotionally and financially to make your time between jobs meaningful and beneficial, and then bounce back with a better job and a higher salary?

These are the questions every person should be able to answer in today’s world of global competition, workforce automation, and job outsourcing.    They say it is better to learn from others than to figure it out on your own.   This book provides you with proven strategies to succeed in corporate America when shit happens, and at some point in your career, it may happen to you.   

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