Success doesn't make you happy — happiness creates success

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Success doesn't make you happy — happiness creates success
By Judith Kleinfeld
Published Sunday, February 1, 2009

Excerpts:

Remember the saying, “Smile and the world smiles with you. Cry and you cry alone?” Research suggests the adage is true.

“Happy people are more likely to achieve favorable life circumstances,” finds psychologist Sonja Lyubomirski and her colleagues in a review of 225 studies, published in Psychological Bulletin.
It’s not that happiness comes from success. The insight of this research is that happiness also creates success; it’s a causal circle.

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Postscript From Jim: Scientific research, in the field of "positive psychology" (American Psychological Association 1999) has found that happiness can be cultivated, learned and or enhanced. If you have an interest in learning how to cultivate or enhance your own happiness (and success) on my Blog, in the left-hand column, look under the category of the Psychology of Happiness. Happiness and learning how to achieve it are available here for your taking!!!!
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This posting was made my Jim Jacobs, President & CEO of Jacobs Executive Advisors. Jim also serves as Leader of Jacobs Advisors' Insurance Practice.