This course is for anyone who wants to work upstream of the situation rather than only react to it: a professional who meets the same stuck problem week after week, a leader whose way of seeing sets the tone for others, or someone at a crossroads deciding what deserves their attention.
Before Happiness is about perception, the step before you respond. It helps you practise choosing, from several equally true readings of a situation, the one that is true, helpful and growth-producing. From there you map your weeks around what gives you meaning, turn down the noise, and share a more helpful reading with others.
The course walks five skills, one module each. Choose the Most Valuable Reality scores three readings of one situation, and Add Vantage Points looks at it from three new angles. The Meaning-Marker Inventory and Map Your Reality compare where your attention goes with what matters to you. The Four Criteria Audit runs your daily information diet through four tests. The Power Lead Practice tracks a week of conversation openers and which ones shift the tone. You close by retaking the opening baseline and writing a Letter to Your Future Self.
On WorkSmart4Life this course sits under Sharpen, the move about attention and focus. Because one of its practices is about how you open a conversation, Meeting view is a natural companion: in the free Wisdom of Work explorer, one click turns a quote or finding into a full-screen slide with a question for the team. Begin with the Foundation module and its baseline; a free 24-hour trial of the whole course lets you look around first.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life