Our world is obsessed with happiness.
How to get it.
How not to lose it.
How to give it to others.
Whatever works is what I call good inspiration. Sometimes, however, we oversimplify something simple that even comes to people who have lost their focus.
- Happiness is like a butterfly. The more we pursue it, the more it evades us. The answer is to sit back, let go and let it land on our shoulders. Translated that means stop making happiness an “A” priority. Letting go and looking for moments to be happy – now that’s the “A”.
- We can become happy by association – when we surround ourselves with people who are grateful, centered and joyful, we cannot help but to become happy like them. That means, we become like our environment so choose your environment carefully.
- Even successful people don’t always look happy. Sometimes when Tiger Woods makes an amazing putt, he is able to wipe that grin of self-satisfaction off his face so quickly, it is a shame. The so-called golf psychologist, Dr. Bob Rotella, tells his professional golf clients to do one thing when they are playing golf – put a smile on their face. It is amazing the results this has had for them and that we can have when we try it in our lives for a day.
“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he (or she) is” –Erasmus
If you like this message, subscribe and share it with your friends
Subscribe • Read Jerry’s book • More stories • Contact the Author
As a person specifically tasked with monitoring mentions of our company on social media for a growing family owned business of three retail stores, I can attest that the process listed above would work. I routinely share messages detailing both the bad and the good with the president of the company, and we do our best to listen to our customers. #6 on your list is crucial, and makes my job and those of people like me much much easier.
I would also add a #8 to your list. If you have had a good customer service experience anywhere, or even a better than not bad experience please consider writing in and sharing that experience as well. For small businesses its entirely possible that it will get shared among the entire leadership team and helps moral in a huge way. By doing this you will be encouraging the business and they will likely try harder than ever to improve their customer service for you & your fellow customers and we all win in that scenario.