Why Happiness Is The New Productivity

by peter on Thursday, January 12th, 2012 | No Comments

I was introduced to something this week that has really helped my thinking and strategies on expanding my business. Vishen Lakhiani of MindValley.com shared this amazing concept in 2009 but I was only introduced to it from a facebook share this week.

Vishen has a great story – and you should really watch the video below to get the whole picture – but in reality he has taken a part time business from losing $300 in his first month, earning $4.50 a day in his 3rd month to a multi-million dollar company within a very short space of time.

Here are a few of the tips he shares to help you grow your business.

Getting In a State Of Flow

To grow your business and, indeed, to grow as a person it is important to get in a state of flow.

Vishen describes flow in this way:

FLOW is the mental state of operation in which the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energised focus, full involvement and success in the process of the activity. It is a state of supreme creativity.

How Do You Get In A State Of Flow?

•You have to be HAPPY where you are right now!

•You have to have a vision of the future!

Let me highlight this in a little more detail

THERE ARE 4 DIFFERENT STATES OF MIND

•Negative Spiral – This is a state of mind where you are miserable most of the time because you have no Vision of where you want to be. This will mean that you will spiral down and down into greater depression as time goes by without a significant change of state or circumstance.

•Reality Trap – This is where you are happy right now but with you have no vision for the future. One of the great things about human kind is that they have a desire and overwhelming urge to make a contribution. In this state you are trapped in your current state. With no vision you are unable to make a contribution. In other words, you can’t grow and you are not going to progress as a person or, indeed your business will not progress.

•Stress and Anxiety – This is a state where you are not happy right now but you have BIG visions for the future.

Time for some admissions on my part. I think I have been in this state for much of my life. For the past 30 years I have had a job in leadership and management. Sometimes with over 200 people working for me. I had BIG visions. Indeed , I think I took the areas of responsibility I had to pretty good levels of success. Many of my team rose to high positions in the corporate field and community. But it WAS a stressful place I put myself. Long hours. Lots of pressure. Stress levels that grew to be very uncomfortable over time, although I always was pushing myself to great challenges.

So I would suggest a lot of us are in this state right now. Perhaps doing something we are not happy or comfortable with but feeling compelled to stick with it for whatever reason.

Then of course we have a State of Flow

•Happy Right Now with a BIG vision for the future

To achieve this you need to LOVE what you are doing right now AND you need an amazing vision for the future.

Vishen relates this to how Bob Proctor described the SECRET – The Law Of Attraction.

•THE SECRET – Thought+Emotion = Attraction

•FLOW – Vision + Happiness = State of Supreme Creativity

How different would your life be if you were in a State of Supreme Creativity?

THE PARADOX OF INTENTION

•You must have goals. But your happiness cannot be tied to these goals. You must be happy BEFORE you attain them.

•You will accelerate toward your dreams if you are HAPPY in the NOW!

Don’t you think, looking at these last couple of sentences that it is pretty obvious that goals being set in at least two of the three first states described, Negative Spiral,,stress and anxiety have little chance of succeeding if our happiness levels are not at a decent level?

If you are miserable and stressed then you are hardly going to be in a state positive enough to make the most of achieving the vision you have set! You are just going to be too down to even bother or two stressed and anxious to put in the right amount of focus.

So it is important, as Tony Robbins always says, to CHANGE YOUR STATE!

Recognise that Happiness comes from the journey – not the destination

I love the way that Vishen describes this process as BLISSIPLINE! The Discipline of keeping yourself happy.

Because it is when you love what you are doing and have big dreams then you WILL be successful

My challeng to you is to watch the video below – all the way through and take notes and then apply them into your personal life and watch it all work positively for you but I list the two greatest points that I took from the video.

Number One blissipline strategy

GRATITUDE. When you express gratitude your happiness goes up. I have practiced this before and it works. Come on, we all have lots of things to be grateful and thankful for. It could even start with being grateful for being able to open your eyes in the morning! Practice GRATITUDE.

A few moments in every day expressing your gratitude for those things around you, your family, nature, your skills and talents, people you know, people who have inspired you, your religious beliefs. It WILL make a huge difference.

Vishen provides this amazing website that you can benefit from lots and lots of great people expressing Gratitude: http://www.gratitudelog.com / It’s FREE!! Why not get involved!

Number two Blissipline Strategy

EXPERIENCES AND CONNECTIONS

Did you know that: THE 5 CLOSEST PEOPLE YOU HANG OUT WITH WILL AVERAGE OUT WHO YOU BECOME?

That can be a bit scary. If you don’t have the right connections for a positive life then you are going to struggle. So it is important to pick out people you admire, aspire to be like, want their results and connect!

Now, for online network marketers, internet marketers that is pretty easy. With the social networks, blogs and our business connections we can find people who provide us all the inspiration we need.

Getting involved with leaders from their FACEBOOK pages, blogs is pretty easy to do. Building a mastermind group is just one of the strategies in Think and Grow Rich. Well, now it is part of your Blissipline strategy too!

But, HEY! Don’t take my word for it….. watch the video below…. and then let me know what you think – perhaps share some comments on this blog about how this video has helped you, whether you think it will help your business. Perhaps you can share some of your own experiences of applying some of the amazing AWESOMENESS that Vishen has used in his company in your own life and business.

Would you like to learn more… then go to this blog that Vishen and his team have put together and get involved! http://www.finerminds.com

Thanks to Vishen for his wisdom and the content of this post!

You will get some insight into how this strategy can work for you!

In the words of one of my favourite rock bands ever, Osibisa:

We through the Spirits of Our Ancestors bring you love. Our treasured gift of happiness. See beyond the dark clouds. Forget your problems and BE HAPPY! Be Happy!

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