Happiness increases your productivity by up to 31%. It also increases your ability to learn. We wrote down five things that will help make you a happier human being, thereby increasing your productivity. When you do these five things, you will truly have the energy to move through business – and life – the way that you want.

Five things that impact happiness:

1. See stress as a challenge and not a threat.
2. Gratitude and three wins
3. Exercise
4. Acts of kindness
5. Environment

If you want to make big changes in your life, you have to approach it from a place of happiness and positivity. Feeling miserable and slogging through the change is only going to slow you down.