{"id":205,"date":"2008-10-15T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/want-more-success-choose-happiness-first\/"},"modified":"2015-04-09T02:32:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T02:32:43","slug":"want-more-success-choose-happiness-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/want-more-success-choose-happiness-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Want more success?  Choose happiness first!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Marci_Shimoff_headshot_lg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 147px; height: 219px;\" src=\"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Marci_Shimoff_headshot_lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>On October 7<span>th<\/span> I interviewed the fabulous Marci <span>Shimoff<\/span>, featured teacher in &#8220;The Secret&#8221;, and one of the best-selling female non-fiction authors of all time.  We discussed her latest book, &#8220;Happy for No Reason&#8221;, and the impact that happiness makes to success of the person and the organization.  The thing is, everyone wants to be happy.  Things don&#8217;t feed our hunger for happiness&#8230;neither does position or power.  And since happy people make more money over <span>their<\/span> lifetime (around $1 million more, <span>actually<\/span>), doesn&#8217;t it make sense to be happy FIRST? <br \/>We can become happy by making a decision to be so, then adopting new habits to change our &#8220;happiness set point&#8221;.  One of the most important habits is associating with happy people.  We become the average of the 5 people we associate with the most (in psychology this is known as the &#8220;law of exposure&#8221;&#8211;we become what we&#8217;re exposed to.  That&#8217;s why we need to be careful of what we watch, read, listen to, and talk about).<br \/>For a leader, bringing a positive atmosphere into the organization opens up a space for people to be more creative, collaborative, and productive.  Happiness can have huge repercussions.  Listen to my interview with Marci at www.modavox.com\/voiceamericabusiness  and go to Tuesday at noon to find the October 7<span>th<\/span> program&#8230;and be prepared to be inspired and energized!<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-205\" data-postid=\"205\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-205 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\n\t<\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 7th I interviewed the fabulous Marci Shimoff, featured teacher in &#8220;The Secret&#8221;, and one of the best-selling female non-fiction authors of all time. We discussed her latest book, &#8220;Happy for No Reason&#8221;, and the impact that happiness makes to success of the person and the organization. The thing is, everyone wants to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marcis-interview","has-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abundancecoaching.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}