Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.

The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.

Most people keep waiting on happiness, putting off happiness until they're successful or until they achieve some goal, which means we limit both happiness and success. That formula doesn't work.

You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.

Your brain at positive is 31% more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed.

When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.