The Positivity Revolution

Imagine if you could finally have a breakthrough to the happiness and success you so desire…and if to make that breakthrough happen, it was just a matter of applying scientific techniques, in as little as a few minutes per day. You’ll not only learn this, but also how to increase your productivity by 30%; how to go from just getting by in life to thriving, and how you can do all of this within the next month if you implement what you learn here!

Sound awesome (and at the same time almost too good to be true)?

Pull up a chair and get ready to sink your teeth into this…because boy do I have a treat for you today!

You’re going to find yourself on the edge of your seat, as you watch this humorous, eye-opening, paradigm shifting video that no doubt will have you coming back to it multiple times to soak up the genius in what’s shared here.

For those of you who prefer to scan before watching a video, here’s a bit of the scoop (See below.  For disclaimer purposes, some of this I wrote, but in an effort to maintain accuracy, I have included much of what is shared in the video).

No person can argue that we all want to increase our happiness and meaning, our success, profitability, and overall fulfillment in our lives. And if you’re even just a little like me, you’ve likely done some studying up on these topics, maybe taken some personal development courses, read some personal growth books, or spent some time on self-development sites. To me, it has always been like there are so many pieces to the puzzle, and that even though it’s completely do-able, that it can take a LONG, long time. And let’s be honest here, we all want things to come to us quicker, don’t we?

Recently my friend Jay shared this video with me, when we were having a conversation about what holds people back from their own greatness. It was from that conversation that this video came into play. And I’m happy to say, in just 12 short minutes, things became very clear to me. The simplicity here is mind blowing. OK, so getting to it….

Any expert will agree that the lens we look through and view the world with, shapes our own individual worlds. Where we focus our mind, attention, eyes (etc.)…our mind, body, life follows. The bad news is, the majority of people go through life trying to work with a broken model for happiness and success.  You see, 90% of your long term happiness is not predicted by your external world (i.e. circumstances), but instead, it’s predicated by the way your brain processes the world.

The good news, is that if you can change the way your brain processes the world (and happiness and success); you can affect your reality.

Most companies and schools, for example, follow the model: If I work harder, I will be more successful, and if I’m more successful, then I’ll be happier. It’s scientifically broken and backwards.

And here’s why…

Everytime the brain has a success, you just changed the goal post for what success looks like (you got good grades, now you have to get better grades; you got a good job, now you have to get a better job; you hit your sales mark, now you have to change your sales target).

Now pay attention to this next part, because this is so key and will tie this all together for you!

If happiness is on the other side of success, the brain never gets there.

We think we have to be successful, then we’ll be happier.

The brain works in the opposite order.

And even more good news…when we understand this formula, we can reverse it!

If you can find positive in the present, then your brain will work more successfully. It will be able to work harder, faster and more intelligently. You’ll be able to see what your brain is actually capable of!

Your brain at positive is:
- 31% more productive than when your brain is at negative, neutral or stressed
- 37% better at sales

And doctors are 19% faster and more accurate at coming up with a current diagnosis when positive versus negative, neutral or stressed.

Here’s a scientific take on this to explain what’s going on…

When dopamine floods into your system when you’re positive, it has 2 functions: Not only does it make you happier, but it turns on all of the  learning centers in your brain, allowing you to adapt to the world in a different way.

So how do you train your brain to become more positive?

In just 2 minutes each day, for 21 days in a row, you can rewire your brain, allowing your brain to work more optimistically and more successfully.

- By writing out 3 things that your grateful for (3 new things each day for 21 days), at the end of the 21 days your brain starts to retain a pattern of scanning the world not for the negative, but for the positive first.

- Journaling about 1 positive experience you’ve had over the past 24 hours allows your brain to relive it.

- Exercise teaches your brain that your behavior matters.

- Meditation allows your brain to get over the cultural ADHD we’ve been creating by trying to do multiple tasks at once. It allows your brain to focus on the task at hand.

- Random acts of kindness (or conscious acts of kindness). In this research, they had people, when they opened their email inbox, write 1 positive email praising or thanking someone in their social support network.

By doing these activities and by training your brain just like we train our bodies, it’s been found that we can reverse the formula for happiness and success, and in doing so create ripples of positivity and create a real revolution.

If I were to ask you how committed you are to your success and happiness, I wonder what your reply would be. What would you be willing to do? To give? To sacrifice?

Here’s a question you deserve to answer for yourself honestly: Are a few minutes each day worth it to you to finally make your breakthrough?

Got thoughts?