I am currently undertaking my ICF accreditation to become a certified Positive Psychology* Coach. It’ll be two years of studying a new discipline. As you can imagine, I’m learning a ton of new stuff. One of the amazing things I’ve learned recently by reading studies is that happiness is a cause of good things, not just an effect of a good outcome. That’s quite profound if you think about it. It means we can think about happiness as a means to an end, rather than the end itself. Happy people make good things happen.

* For anyone who hasn’t heard of Positive Psychology, it’s a relatively new branch of Psychology (founded in the early ‘90s) that studies what goes right with people, as opposed to what goes wrong.