This plugin is based on the book The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor and looks to help you achieve the Happiness Advantage by training your brain to scan for the positive first giving you a boost in problem solving and creative thinking.
A Note: For now, this plugin takes over the standard post post-type in the future I hope to make it so that it can be switched to take over the post post-type or create its own post-type.
“The lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality, and if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.” -Shawn Archer
- Happy doctors have 3x more intelligence and creativity and make accurate diagnosis 19% faster
- Optimistic sales people out sell their pessimistic counterparts by 56%
- Students primed to feel happy before taking math achievement tests far outperform their neutral piers.
At the end of each day you will create a new post and complete the following:
- 3 Gratitudes – List out three things that they are grateful for each day, not specifically from the last 24 hours, but anything at all that you can think of. Doing this as a daily exercise your brain will learn to scan the world for the positives first.
- Journaling – Write about 1 positive experience from the last 24 hours this allows you to relive it. This activity, much like the first one, trains your brain to think about and focus on the positives first.
- Exercise – Teach you and your body that your behavior matters.
- Meditation – 5 minutes each day to watch your breath go in and out, when doing this, try to remain patient and if you feel your mind drifting bring it back to focus. this will take practice, but it is one of the most powerful happiness lifters. Shortly after meditation you will feel calm and contentment and you will increase your awareness and empathy. Longer term affects of regular meditation include the rewiring of the brain to elevate your happiness baseline, reduce stress, and improve immune function.
- Conscious Acts of Kindness – Write 1 positive email praising or thanking someone in their social support network. Alternatively plan and carry out one positive act for someone in your social network, then write about it here, reflect on what you did and how it made you and the recipient of your positive act feel.
If you are a developer or would like to contribute to the code you can do so right here, please feel free to submit bug reports and/or create pull requests!
If you are a user and have no interest in the code, you can submit a bug here or you can head over to the WordPress Plugin Repository, but be nice and please explain your problem fully so I can figure out how to best fix it.
Maybe you are interested in reading the docs on my site, I hope to soon have everything setup here in a wiki as well.
- The change-log has found its home in the wiki.
- Install instructions can also be found in the wiki.
- You can also read the full documentation.