How Just Five Acts of Kindness a Week Can Boost Your Happiness #shorts

For this week's tip on making happiness your competitive edge, let's turn to the research of one of my favorite happiness researchers who I had a chance to share the stage at the Gross Global Happiness Summit, Sonia Lyubomirsky. Now, Sonia Lyubomirsky studied extensively the power of kindness in increasing the happiness of individuals. What she found in her research is when we practice five random acts of kindness once a week, it significantly increases our own level of well being, life satisfaction and happiness number. Now, these axe can be really small. They can be as simple as buying coffee for a stranger. They can be about opening the door or holding the door open for somebody else in your office. It might be offering our seat to somebody else in the train or bus that you take. It can be offering a kind smile or really inquiring into how is somebody in the office, asking them how are you and holding a space. It's not the size of the axe, but it is the frequency of how we practice kindness. When we do this once a week, it can significantly increase our happiness.