The Happier You

In today's episode I am talking about how we can speed up the process of change by lighting that fire inside that inspires us to finally make the change we really want.  If you are like me, I know I want to make change but I have trouble finding the motivation to go through the steps to get there.  It's usually just easier to complain and go with the flow instead of instigating change.  Except, once we finally make the change we wonder what took us so long!!!

Today I'm giving you a 4 (and a half) step process to help you speed this process along.   The steps aren't difficult, its just that we know that making change takes work...and that work isn't always fun, or easy.  The half step might be a really "out there" concept for you...so if you want to know more you can listen to the episodes I did on Positive Affirmations to learn more.   Here are the links to episodes 37 & 13, both about the power of positive affirmations.

As I talked about in today's episode, here is the link to thehappieryou.net if you want to sign up for My Happy Notes to keep you up-to-date on what's new, what's coming up and any happy thoughts I want to share with you between episodes.  Remember Building Your Happiness Foundation is launching in mid April, you don't' want to miss out on that!

Today's episode is  about how to STOP limiting your ability to experience happiness.  I was  inspired by a great book I have been re-listening to called The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks.  A friend recommended this book when I told her something that I was stuck on and worried about.  She immediately said, "READ THIS BOOK."  I love books and I hate getting stuck on things...so I did.  Well, today's episode is only one of many great things I learned from this book.  

I think all of us have "upper limit" challenges in many areas of our lives.  Today, I am talking about how I have seen it play out for me as well as many other members of The Happier You community.  Hopefully I articulate the concept well enough that you can stop yourself from limiting your ability to experience happiness as well as carry this concept into other parts of your life where you are imposing limits on yourself.

This week I'm talking about How Connecting To Your Future Self Helps Increase Focus and Happiness.  What do focus and happiness have in common?  Today I talk about this book I read about connecting to our future self.  As I was reading the book I realized that when we connect to our future self, it puts life in a different focus.  That focus can help us find more happiness today AND in the future.

If you are interested to know more about the book I reference today, its called Be Your Future Self Now by Benjamin Hardy.  I only shared a couple of the great things that jumped out at me in the book.  There really is a lot more to what he shares.

In today’s episode I’m going to show you how to use re-framing and anticipation to make February great even if you are like me and you aren’t a fan of Valentine’s Day.  Don’t give control of your happiness to anyone else, especially marketers, social media and retailers!  Figure out what is great about YOUR February and focus on that.
Today I'm sharing 5 things I'm going to focus on this month to keep it positive.  You are welcome to share mine or come up with your own.  February is all about working the anticipation and re-framing muscle and creating things you can get excited about, instead of dwelling on things you can't control.

Links to references I made in the Podcast:
The Episode on The 5 Love Languages
The Happier You Newsletter - so you don't miss out on the course launch of Building Your Happiness Foundation coming soon!
If you want to hear more about using anticipation as a happiness tools you check out the previous episode where I talked about it here:   Bring Back Anticipation

Today I am introducing you to this 5-Step System To Add More Positive In Your Life.

What do you do when you want to make a positive change in your life but you don’t know where to start?  Or your Inner critic has you so wound up you are afraid to even try?  When you think there is absolutely no way you can make a positive change in your life?

If we wait for all the lights to be green, we would never start anything.  That’s an easy excuse to never put ourselves out there and try.

This 5-Step System outlines how to add new positive habits in your life whenever you want.  Will you accept the challenge to add more positive into your life today?

In today's episode I am encouraging you to ditch New Years Resolutions and get on with setting up your best life.  I love fresh starts...and well, January is a chance to take stock and use this fresh start to get you on you way to living your best life!  I will walk you through my 4 part system to use this fresh start to figure out how to craft a life you can get excited about.  Fresh starts are filled with hope.  Let's take that hope and make it work for you!

Today's episode is about bringing joy into your annual review so you can honour and acknowledge everything you've learned in 2022!  I firmly believe that experience doesn't make you wiser, evaluated experience makes you wiser.  And learning to be humble and learn from your experiences doesn't always have to be a daunting or demoralizing job.  Its all about how you look at things and the attitude you take into the activity.  Its important to embrace your life and face it head on. 

When you bring joy into your annual Review and honour this year's lessons you are putting yourself squarely in the drivers seat of your life.  This gets you one step closer to living your authentic and happier life.  You've got this!  Join me today as I walk you through the process with more joy and self-compassion.

Resources I referenced this week:
More episodes on Self-compassion- #27 & #42
More episodes on Reflection & Review #69, #21 & #28
Join Our Face Book Community The Happier You

Today's podcast is a very inspiring interview with Christine Heinrichs.  I came across Christine's podcast one day when I was looking for something new and inspiring to listen to.  I was so excited when Christine agreed to come on and talk about what she is doing. 

The episode title...Get Unstuck and Craft A Life with Purpose has special meaning to Christine.  Join us in this fun interview and find out why I think she is so inspiring and how she is helping people get unstuck and craft a life with purpose!

Links to find out more about Christine and her awesome work:
Podcast: The MilSpouse Mastermind Show

Website: https://milspousemastermind.com

FB Community: https://milspousemastermind.com/community

Free Find Yourself Again Workshop:milspousemastermind.com/workshop

IG: @milspousemastermind

In today's episode I'm talking about how knowing your love language will help you figure out what you really want this Christmas Season.  There is so much gift giving at this time of year, but that isn't necessarily what brings you the most joy.  

Heading in to this holiday season knowing how you want to receive love just puts you more in the driver's seat of your happiness.  Even better if you can get those around you to figure out their love language too.  Its creates a great discussion about what is important to everyone as you navigate this tricky season.

Resources I referenced this week:
The 5 Love Languages Quizzes

How does finding your happiness help you appreciate taking the stairs?  Well, both are a journey where you need to go through all the steps.  Join me in today's episode where I make my case that there is no coasting or short cut.  We need to do the work and keep using our happiness tools to ensure we are constantly working on our happiness.  Sorry.  It is not a one a done!  No escalator.  No elevator.  Learn to enjoy the journey and take the stairs.  I think I make a pretty compelling argument.  

I'd love to hear your thoughts and what happiness tools you are recommitting to this week.  Also, in the podcast, I invited you to the The Happier You Face Book group as I will share my "gratitude quote a day" in December again this year.  

In today's episode I am talking about how "Doing Something Different" and going outside your comfort zone can bring you small wins to celebrate. Its not just what you learn outside your comfort zone, but the pure fact that you went outside your comfort zone is a large, small win!
Today I tell you about a recent clash I had with my comfort zone. The unsurprising rise of fear and self doubt, and how I think pushing through the discomfort is worth doing it afraid. Its not easy, and the fear and self doubt keep coming back. However, the more you get outside your comfort zone, the more confident you will get in your ability to do it.
Sometimes we cannot figure out how to get out of this rut we are in.  We get stuck in a routine and it at worst frustrates us, and at best discourages us.  We hope for something to change but we are stuck in our comfort zone.

Do something different!  Try something new!    Stop doing the same thing and expecting things to change. 

This week I am talking about how you can get to the point of embracing and accepting your uniqueness.  I believe figuring this out is a big part of figuring out your happiness.  Instead of letting outside factors tell you what YOUR happiness looks like, I think you are worth the investment of time to figure out what you really want by getting to know that beautifully unique person you are underneath all your different roles.  In today's episode I make my case as to why I think journaling is the best way to help you get this figured out.  

This week we are talking about discovering your Happiness Lid and then figuring out how to Increase the limit the lid is imposing on you.  Most of us  don't even realize that we limit how much happiness we allow in our day to day life.  Today I talk about what different factors determine where our happiness lid sits, and then I give you some steps to start to push it higher! Only you get to decide the height of your happiness lid.  I couldn't find who said today's episode quote, but its so good... Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket.  Grab hold, its yours.  You've got this!

We have another happiness challenge coming up soon.  Be sure you visit us on thehappieryou.net/challenges and get on the wait list so you don't miss your next happiness boost!

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

This week we are talking about how to take charge of your happiness, why small wins really matter.  And they do!  They really matter.  Its so important to celebrate all your small wins along the way to your goals.  No large goal is achieved without all the small steps, and today we are talking about how powerful it is to celebrate those.  When we do this we build momentum and belief in ourselves.  When we learn to enjoy those moments we bring more happiness into our daily life.

Some Previous Episodes that talked about The Power of Small Wins are:

Real People Finding Real Happiness – Interview with Karen Holliday

Take Back Control of Your Life and Create Powerful Habits

Celebrating The Small Wins

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

This week's episode is focusing on what we can take from our summer experience and use it to learn more about our self and be proactive in creating the life we want.  Whether you had a great summer or a less than stellar summer...reflecting on your summer and learning from all your experiences can help you find your happier.  This week's happiness tool is a powerful one!  Be sure to post comments and let me know what you think about this week's challenge.

In today's episode I am challenging you to step up, have fun and grow your happiness this summer. Its a fun summer project to ensure you come out of your summer feeling rested, recharged and that you've done something awesome for yourself! For the last couple of summers I have just survived! I am determined to thrive this summer! I believe the key to thriving is the Summer Happiness Challenge! Who doesn't want to add more happiness in their daily life? I can't wait to see what this form of "summer camp" does for our happiness community this summer! 

You can do the challenge with a friend, you can do the challenge with your family, or you can just sign up to do the challenge and meet the other challenge participants on our closed Facebook group. We are going to have fun this summer! Through the challenge, we're going to have fun together and support and encourage one another.

Summer Happiness Challenge Sign Up is Here!

For more info on the Summer Happiness Challenge you can go to our Happiness Challenges page.

If you know you are already up for the challenge you can sign up here The Summer Happiness Challenge sign up


I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.  

 This week I am talking about how happiness is unique to each of us. As we get to know our authentic self, we will be able to stop being sold to and start living our happier life now! We are all at different stages in our life and therefore ready for different things. In today's episode I suggest 3 activities, or happiness tools that you can use to start living your happier life now. Because happiness isn't a destination, but small decisions we make on the journey, we are able to keep making adjustments to learn and grow and find more happy in every day life.

Resources I referenced this week:
Here are the podcast episodes that relate to the three happiness tools I referenced this week:
Finding Ways to Recharges during COVID 19
Who Are You Choosing To Be

Summer Happiness Challenge Sign Up is Here!
If you want to join us for our summer happiness challenge where we not only build on our happiness tools, we are going to do the happiness activities!  Sigh up here and build on your happier this summer!

I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here as well as make sure you get notified when enrollment opens for our Summer Happiness Challenge. 

 In this episode I am talking about how knowing and living your values helps you create an authentic life. I think this is the foundation of finding your happier because you won't be truly happy until you figure out what your authentic life looks like and start living it. I believe that figuring out your values is a great way to clarify what matters most to you. Then you can design your life to fit that. Knowing your values helps clarify where to spend you time, money and attention. Decisions are all around us. Can you imagine how much clearer your path would be if you held your decisions up against your values? You are worth the work!

Resources I referenced this week:

Knowing Your Values Will Help You Find Your Happier - Podcast with Doris Belland
List of Values that Doris Uses in her teachings
If you want to learn more about Doris and what she teaches, you can check her out on her website Your Financial Launchpad

 I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here as well as make sure you get notified when enrollment opens for our Summer Happiness Challenge.

 This week's podcast is an interview with Natasha Mang.  Natasha is a Happiness Community Member who completed the 21 Day Happiness Challenge and has offered to come on the podcast and share her insights and lessons learned.   In today's episode Natasha shares how she used her experience in her first happiness challenge to get even more out of the second challenge.  She makes me laugh when she shares how she "beat the system" on her first challenge and how she is consciously choosing how she shows up each day.  She also shares insight on how her whole family is using the  Love Languages to improve communication and more effectively show each other love.    Such a fun interview and so many great take-a ways. 

Previous podcasts covering some of the happiness tools Natasha talks about in today's episode:
The Podcast on Gratitude:How Gratitude Can Boost Happiness and Change How You See The World
The Episode on The Five Love Languages:  How To Ask For What You Need
The Episode on Who Are You Choosing To Be: Who Are You Choosing To Be
The Episode on Anticipation:  Why You Need To Bring Back Anticipation

 I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.

This week I am talking about 5 happiness tools that can help you increase your resilience.  Resilience is your ability to get back to your normal state after a struggle or a crisis.  Its not really something most of us spend time thinking about until we find ourselves having to dig deep and work our way through a crisis or struggle.   I am convinced that by working on these 5 happiness tools, you are actually building your resilience muscle as well.  How cool is that?  More bang for your personal growth time!  YES!!    I think that if you choose one of these happiness tools and work on it for a couple of months, you will notice an increase in your happiness AND your resilience.  Don't you think that its worth a try? 

Resources I referenced this week:
The podcasts that go deeper on the 5 happiness tools I mentioned are:
Reflection and Review
Celebrating The Small Wins
Self-compassion
Gratitude
Changing The Way you Talk to Yourself
 And whenever I talk about Self-compassion I like to refer you to Dr. Kristen Neff and her Guided meditations on self-compassion.

 I hope you enjoy this week’s podcast. Don’t forget we’d love to see you over on the Facebook Group, The Happier You Podcast!  You can also sign up to get the podcast delivered right to your inbox here.