Happier employees are more more productive and take less sick days - bestselling author Marci Shimoff

In addition, Ms Shimoff said that happier employees achieve greater success in sales.

Therefore, Ms Shimoff said, happiness does affect the bottom line.

In her talk to a captivated audience Ms Shimoff  said that Irish people have discovered the secret to happiness, which she followed with a picture of Guinness and Tayto!

However on a more serious note, Ms Shimoff said that despite people never having so much, one in four women today are on anti-depressants.

The good news she said is that science has cracked the happiness code.

“Your happiness set point is 50pc genetic, 10pc circumstances, the other 40pc is your habits and behaviour, which we can change”.

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Ms Shimoff told the audience that on an average day 80pc of our thoughts are negative, “the next time you find yourself saying you can’t do a good job, it’s important to catch yourself”.

In a talk which had much audience participation, Ms Shimoff listed three ways to develop neural pathways to happiness in the brain;

“One, look for the good in things, two; savour the moment for at least 20 seconds, and finally go for a three to one ratio, that is, for every one negative we have, we need to counter it with three positives”.

Ms Shimoff concluded by saying that when we are happier “we affect our families, our workplaces, and our world”.

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