How you chose to approach the day has a significant impact not only on your own performance but also on the performance of others. Each morning you have a choice to make - to be positive or negative - to see the glass half full or half empty.

Why? Because your emotions - and therefore you - are contagious!

Did you know that how you feel is also felt physically by others? It's true. You are openly broadcasting how you are feeling to others without you even realizing. Your mood is like a common cold, and by exposing others to it, they can catch it too. Ah-Choo!

I can already sense the groans from many sceptics; "This sounds like a lot of new age touchy feely stuff with no scientific basis." Well, they'd be wrong! Research by the Heart Math Institute found that when you have a feeling in your heart, that feeling is sent to every cell in the body, and then outward. Other people, up to 10 feet away, can sense those feelings transmitted by your heart. Still not convinced? Well, Harvard University has found similar results in their research studies; the emotions that you feel are contagious and affect the people around you.

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