Happier with Hazel

Last week I gave you suggestions for changes you can make to raise your set point for happiness, your Happiness Quotient.  This week I continue on this theme with yet more suggestions so that you can pick the right one for you. Or maybe you want to try more than one.  It’s up to you – but listen in for great tips to make stunning changes to your life and your happiness, and how this can help you to be less anxious and stressed. 

Being happy is good for us and good for society. Happy people generate feelings of acceptance, appreciation, openness, gratitude, and trust and less hostility, defensiveness, resentment and judgement. 

We have a set point for happiness, our Happiness Quotient that we return to after good or bad things happen to us. Some have a lower HQ because of genetics or environment.  But you can cultivate a higher HQ and that’s what I’m going to talk about for the next two shows because there are so many ways you can  learn how to raise your HQ and experience greater happiness, less stress and less anxiety. 

If I asked you if you’re happy, what would you say?  Yes, no, sometimes, never, always?  
When people are asked what they want for their children, their family, their friends it’s usually ‘I just want them to be happy’.  
But what is happiness and should we be spending so much money, time and energy in order to pursue it? Why are some people happier than others, no matter what life throws at them?  In this episode I'll talk about why we’re all under so much pressure to be happy, that we shouldn’t even be happy all the time and how struggling to reach happiness is doing the opposite - and making us all anxious, stressed and unhappy. But it’s not all gloom and doom – listen in to learn how you can be happier. 

If you feel stressed, anxious, exhausted, starting to hate your job, and beginning to feel less capable at work, you are showing signs of burnout. But what causes it and what can you do about it?  Listen to this week’s episode when I’ll be discussing burn out and 10 practical tips to tackle it. 

Success seems to be more stressful for women, but it often goes unrecognised and undiagnosed leading to burn out, stress related illness and exhaustion.  Find out if you have signs of dangerous levels of stress and what you can do about it. Whether it’s you or someone you know that’s under pressure, man or woman, you need to know how to understand stress so that you can do something about it – before it’s too late. 

Have you ever been swept away with emotion.  It feels like you can’t control it and you can’t think straight, it feels overwhelming.  Maybe you freeze or burst into tears and afterwards you feel silly, exhausted and embarrassed.  You see strong emotions, when we don’t manage them, make us stupid and hijack our thinking. 

But it doesn’t have to be like this.  You can get better at recognising and managing your yourself so you understand your emotions and you never have to risk being paralysed or swept away by them again. 

Have you ever struggled with negative, internal, incessant chatter? A brain that just never seems to shut up or tire of beating you up? And do you ever worry about how many negative thoughts you have?  Well, that’s exactly what I’m going to talk about this week where I’ll be telling you why you get this radio gaga in your head and what you can do to make it a little bit more helpful and less destructive. 

Have you ever struggled with anxiety or maybe you’ve got some stuff going on and you’re wondering if it’s anxiety related? Well, if the answer is ‘Yes’ then you’re in the right place as that’s exactly what I’m talking about on this week’s show.  Anxiety can show up in many different ways so you may not realise that what you are going through is anxiety related – or maybe you know you have anxiety and you want some help to manage it more effectively.  Listen in to learn more about anxiety and I’ll be giving three tips you can use so that from today you can start to take control of your anxiety, instead of it controlling you.

Have you ever struggled with anxiety about going on holiday?, Maybe you get nervous booking it, stressed about the packing and everything there is to do before you go and then when you get there you go and get sick. Well, that’s exactly what I’m going to help you with on this week’s show, where you’ll learn ten top tips to help you look forward to holidays as a fun time, instead of dreading them. If you’re about to head off on a well-deserved, much needed holiday - but are feeling strangely stressed about it rather than excited, don’t worry, you’re not alone - it’s more common than you might think.