Apply The Happiness Factor With Shawn Achor At NAFA's I&E

"(We assume) the external world is predictive of our happiness levels, when in reality, if I know everything about your external world, I can only predict ten percent of your long-term happiness." With that, speaker Shawn Achor has got your attention. What he says next gets you motivated. "90 percent of your long-term happiness is predicted not by the external world, but by the way your brain processes the world." People who are happy are shown to be more effective and more creative at work and at home, but how does one get to happiness if it is purportedly dependent on one’s approach?

Motivational speaker Shawn Achor has keyed in on the field of positive psychology, whereby one’s relationship to the world is dependent on their viewpoint of it, not from the world’s cumulative effect on the individual...or, how you view the world affects the world and your relationship with it. Happy people, engaged individuals, are more likely to be creative, productive, enthusiastic, and able to accept change, challenges, and stress. That is exactly the message NAFA wants for our kick-off of the 2015 Institute & Expo (I&E), April 14-17, in Orlando, Florida.

Shawn Achor is the CEO of Good Think Inc., a Cambridge-based consulting firm that researches positive outliers — people who are well above average — to understand where human potential, success and happiness intersect. Based on his research and 12 years of experience at Harvard, he clearly and humorously describes how to increase happiness and meaning, raise success rates and profitability, and create positive transformations that ripple into more successful cultures. Shawn is the author of The Happiness Advantage (2010) and Before Happiness (2013), both of which are New York Times best-sellers.

The four-day I&E is the fleet management event of the year with more than 60 hours of educational sessions, an expo floor featuring over 250 exhibitors with the latest products and services, great networking opportunities, and the presentation of the Fleet Excellence Awards. NAFA’s 2015 I&E will also feature keynote events featuring important executives from the the automotive industry and fleet management companies, as well as a deep-dive into the legislative issues that will impact fleet managers in 2015 and beyond. For more information, visit http://www.nafainstitute.org.