Brokers, you'll appreciate this one: Optimistic salespeople outsell their pessimistic counterparts by 56 percent.

HR pros will like this: Happy workers have higher levels of productivity, produce higher sales, perform better in leadership positions, and receive higher performance ratings and higher pay. They also enjoy more job security and are less likely to take sick days, quit, or burn out.

And we'll all like this: Doctors in a positive mood before making a diagnosis show almost three times more intelligence and creativity than doctors in a neutral state, and they make accurate diagnoses 19 percent faster.

Sure, it sounds great, but apparently we gotta do something to get to that happy place. Achor has a few ideas: journaling, exercising, meditating, conducting random acts of kindness and writing down three things you're grateful for each morning.

Despite the temptation to disregard Achor's challenge and instead make sarcastic remarks during his speech, I figured if I pick one thing to work on, it might as well be to become a little happier. So I'm vowing to try a couple and see if they stick (Achor says if you force yourself to do something for 21 days, it'll become a habit you don't have to force yourself to do).

I'll write what's good in life each morning instead of my usual routine of complaining about what's not. And though I don't like exercising, I know I should give that a try (especially since part of my job entails writing about obesity stats).

And if developing a pattern in life exercising doesn't perk me up after a few weeks, at least I can stop being a hypocrite writing about the importance of individual wellness—at least temporarily, anyhow.