Of course there can be days when we feel like chocolate is the only thing that will help us boost our mood - we’ve all been there. 

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Welcome to Everyday Happiness where we create lasting happiness, in 2-ish minutes a day,  through my signature method of Intentional Margins® (creating harmony between your to-dos and your priorities), happiness science, and musings about life. 

I'm your host Katie Jefcoat and if you take the approach that very few things can boost your mood, then you will speak that into existence.  What we focus on grows, right?  But the thing is, that’s not you.  That’s not my audience.  I know this because you come back, you listen in, you chew on these concepts throughout the day.  And sometimes you even mention something from this show to a friend.  

So, can there be days when we feel like chocolate is the only thing that will help us boost our mood - of course.  That’s the power of being human and having a wide range of emotions.  

What we’re after here is lasting happiness.  Intentional happiness.  Fulfilled happiness.  This is when you can look back at your day and see the joy, the happiness but also know every single minute was not in a constant state of bliss.  In fact, you can look back and see that yesterday was a hard and unhappy day, but that doesn’t mean that my life is now unhappy.  You see?  Isn’t that the most amazing thing?  This happiness research reaffirms that we get to have bad, hard, challenging, down-right terrible days or weeks or months and still have a happy life.  

We know that we can achieve that job and that will make us happy for a while, but the corner office will barely make a dent in our fulfilled happiness, and it certainly won’t last.  The same with negative emotions.  They will sting and the quick sand that you feel you are walking through may be hard at times, it will re-appear, it may take some time to go though, but we will go through it.  

If happiness is based on how our brain processes the world, we get to help our brain out, by being intentional about what we put in front of our eyes, what we listen to with our ears and who we surround ourselves with as much as we can. 

So today, I invite you to sit in your feelings, if that is where you are. And then, I invite you to remind yourself that negative thoughts and feelings do not make up the whole picture and fulfilled happiness is a range, over time, and we get to have both.  

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