Description

Are you happy with your life? Do you wish you could find ways to be happier?

Or, like many people, do you feel happiness is something out of reach, or maybe something you will work on once you get through some other important stuff?

A large part of what I do daily is to help people learn how to live an engaging, productive, and fulfilling life while building positive relationships, maintaining life satisfaction, and feeling less overwhelmed. Happiness is a big part of living a fulfilling life.

I also work with many people who feel like their life is a little stuck, and they aren’t getting as much out of their career or personal life as they thought.  One of the presenting symptoms for someone in that position is that they just aren’t as happy with life as they used to be or thought they would be. 

And, as you will find out from today’s podcast, a main ingredient as well as an outcome of living an engaging, productive, and fulfilling life is the ability to create and feel happiness. 

What you will learn in today’s podcast

• Definition of Happiness
• Whether happiness is important, and more importantly how it is important to your brain, body, and life
• We work a little bit on the science of happiness
• The top 5 ways you can increase happiness in your life

Summary of the Key Points

• There are many definitions of happiness. Most have common themes in them. A good one we use in this podcast is "the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile"
• What we can discern from these carefully crafted definitions of happiness (usually coming from researchers who focus on what happiness is and how to create it) is:
  • There is something subjective about happiness - it is unique to each individual
  • There is no common recipe for happiness even for the same person
  • Happiness is both an emotion and a feeling
  • Happiness is related to a sense of life fulfillment
• It is important to think about happiness because:
  • It is super hard to live a fulfilling life without some happiness
  • There are many evidence-based health benefits to happiness
  • There are productivity and work-quality benefits to being happy.  It enables improvements in your work environment that will lead to overall improvements in your life
• 5 evidence-based ways to increase happiness in your life, that we discuss in more detail in the podcast include:
  • Practicing gratitude
  • Practicing acts of kindness
  • Cultivating positive relationships
  • Exercise regularly
  • Practice mindfulness

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