Is Happiness the New Productivity?
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Success Starts With Your Mindset
Success in your home-based business starts with your mindset. You have heard that before but, what does it really mean? According to Vishen Lakhiani, founder of the company “Mind Valley”, you have to be in a state of Flow to attain the highest success. According to Wikipedia, Flow is the mental state of operation in which a person in an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.
How do you get into Flow?
According to Vishen, it is a balance of two things:
1) You Must Be Happy in the Now Moment -You must be happy where you are right now. You must be happy and grateful for all you have.
2) You Must have a Vision of The Future – You must have an amazing vision of what you want your life to be. You must have a large clear vision.
How Do You Keep Yourself in a State of Flow?
The key to getting into Flow is realizing “The Paradox of Intention”. The paradox of intention says that: You Must Have Goals. But Your Happiness Can Not be tied to the Goals. You Must Be Happy BEFORE You Attain Them. In other words, the happiness comes from the journey, not the destination. The key is to notice when flow happens, and change your life to make it happen more often. Vishen has a technique he uses to stay in the flow which he calls Blisscipline. Blisscipine is the discipline of keeping yourself happy. He says you can take the practice of blisscipline and apply it to your home-based business or team.
You Can Never Be in a State of Flow if You Don’t Truly Enjoy What You Do
Sometimes you must destroy your life to let the next great thing happen! If you do not love your job, love what you are doing and have a passion for it GET OUT and do something else! I have been miserable in my job for some time. Once I decided to Get Out, decided on a Big Dream and was clear about what I wanted, an awesome new Perfect Opportunity (exactly what I wanted) pretty much dropped right into my lap!
Positive Stamina is a Necessary Ingredient to Success
Vishen says one of the mindset ingredients of success is called “Positive Stamina” and there is a way to develop it. He got this idea from something Donald Trump said. Here is the quote from Donald Trump: “Learn to manage your mind. Do not let a situation lure you into thinking negatively. Sometimes you will fail but you’ll learn for the next time. Every time a negative thought comes at you ZAP IT! Replace it with positive thoughts. That takes energy but the result will be stamina, positive stamina, the necessary ingredient for success.”
There are many more tidbits of information in
which is where I got all the ideas for this blog post. Vishen has ten tactics that he uses in his business to keep his team in the flow. All of these tactics can also be adapted for your Home-based business to keep you in the flow, happier and more productive……
