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In Pursuit of Exuberance (and love)

^{If this is you:}

^{•   when you've been working out more, you feel great!}

^{•   when you eat better, you feel better.}

^{•   when you get enough rest, you wake up in the morning bright eyed and bushy tailed...}

^{•   when you have a balanced amount of stress in your life you live more cheerfully :0>}

^{then you already know that great health - and attempts to reach it - leads to exuberance.}

^{And that is what I'm passionate about.}

^Exuberance.

^{The quality of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness.}

^{Fitness, vegetables, water, protein, squats, sleep, meditation - all the things that I write about and teach - are a means to find and experience exuberance as a permanent state.}

^{It's my holy grail.}

^{You know what exuberance leads to?}

^{Success. In every endeavour, be that finding love, losing weight or making your business fly.}

^{It’s not, as we most often think, the other way round.}

^{We think that hard work leads to success and once success is attained, happiness (exuberance by another name) will follow.}

^{Here's what Shawn Achor, who did a TED talk about this - had to say about that:}

^{And the problem is [this way of thinking is] scientifically broken and backwards for two reasons. First, every time your brain has a success, you just changed the goalpost of what success looked like. You got good grades, now you have to get better grades, you got into a good school and after you get into a better school, you got a good job, now you have to get a better job, you hit your target, we're going to change your target. And if happiness is on the opposite side of success, your brain never gets there. What we've done is we've pushed happiness over the cognitive horizon as a society. And that's because we think we have to be successful, then we'll be happier.}

^{But the real problem is our brains work in the opposite order. If you can raise somebody's level of positivity in the present, then their brain experiences what we now call a happiness advantage, which is your brain at positive performs significantly better than it does at negative, neutral or stressed. Your intelligence rises, your creativity rises, your energy levels rise. Your brain at positive is 31 percent more productive than your brain at negative, neutral or stressed. Doctors are 19 percent faster, more accurate at coming up with the correct diagnosis when positive instead of negative, neutral or stressed. Which means we can reverse the formula. If we can find a way of becoming positive in the present, then our brains work even more successfully as we're able to work harder, faster and more intelligently.}

^{Being in pursuit of exuberance is to be in pursuit of success, whatever that means for you.}

^{•   It could be something you do for its own sake, because you want to feel amazing every day of your life.}

^{•   It could be how you approach finding the relationship of your dreams, because the happiness advantage Shawn talks about is something you can really get on board with on that front.}

^{•   It could be something you do to enhance your creative streak and become even more awesome than you already are.} 

^{Whatever your reason, exuberance is something really worth having. And it stems from health.}

^{Invest in that and you're investing in everything that's important to you.}

^{Have I persuaded you yet? :0>}