Let's say you're given a whole day to do whatever you want, do you know how you'd spend it and whether those activies could give you the boost you're looking for?

Truth is, because we all tick differently, what makes us tick will also be different. We're dedicating a whole episode on how to find the activities that fill up your wellbeing buckets and boost your wellbeing in times of rest!

Join Meg as she discusses:

• Why she feels her rest period did her more harm than good
• Why intentional activity is key to your happiness
• How doing something may be more restful than doing nothing
• How not everyone will get the same boost from the same activities
• The different tools to use to find out which positive psychology interventions are most suited to you
• A really useful tool to help you work out what activities are going to make you tick!

Link to the person activity fit diagnositc: https://thehowofhappiness.com/wp-content/themes/thehowofhappiness/Quiz/fit_diagnostic.html

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk

Ringing a bell? You've got loads on in your life, spinning too many plates and it's all starting to feel a little stressful. Let's take back control to stop stress getting in the way of you being the happiest version of you!

Join Meg as she discusses:

• The things going on in her life that feel pretty full on and how she's taking back control
• The different types of stress we experience and how some of them can be pretty useful
• A really useful analogy to help you think about your stress management tools a little differently
• How we all have different capacities for stress and ways we can change our perception of our reality
• How we can learn from our experiences so far to teach us what strategies work best for us
• 4 useful tools to help you start managing your stress better!

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk

This week we are joined by Chloe Lowe, mum of two, wife, strategy and digital consultant, entrepreneur and founder of the Parent List App.

After being diagnosed with anxiety and depression at 17, Chloe shares her story of how understanding what happiness means to her not only helps her thrive in all of her roles in life, but helps her be more present with her children.

Our conversation with Chloe is a gorgeous reminder that your happiness doesn't have to take a back seat when you become a parent, and by prioritising it, your kids learn to do this too.

Join Chloe as she discusses:

· Her diagnosis with anxiety and depression at 17 and how she navigates the ups and the downs of this as a parent

· The moments in her life that helped her realise that her happiness is important

· How working with a life coach changed her life and helped her understand what happiness means to her

· The ease of slipping into comparison on social media, and tips to avoid parent bashing

· The practical steps she takes to come back to her own joy, happiness and wellbeing

· How she took the steps to leave her leadership role and choose to build something incredible to help other parents experiencing overwhelm

· How she's curated 100s of checklists with experts to help busy parents with everything from packing the swimming bag to choosing a childcare provision

About Chloe

Chloe Lowe is Founder of Parent List App. She is a mum of two, wife, strategy and digital consultant and entrepreneur.

If you're looking to reduce stress and find more time by using 100s of checklists and videos on a range of parenting topics, you can register for the parent list app here: https://parentlist.app

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk

Have you ever found yourself wanting to have more positive thoughts? Perhaps there's a little voice in your head that is overly negative, and you're ready to turn it down a little.

Join Meg this week as she explores what is meant by 'mindset' and how trying to understand your thoughts can help you create a happier life.

This week she covers:

• What does mindset even mean?
• Thinking of your brain as a muscle to practice the ways you're thinking
• How thinking positively is a skill, but it's very close to toxic positivity – we're talking about choosing helpful thoughts, not ignoring how you're feeling
• How your brain is designed to keep us safe – not to make you happy, so your thinking may not be working in your favour
• The first step is building awareness of the kind of ways your brain may be hindering you
• How your reality is never your reality, it's how you've chosen to interpret the situation
• The 11 most common ways our brians to trick us

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk

It's a big theme here at happybyme, but do you know what makes you happy? How has that changed over the years? When was the last time you checked in with yourself on this?

Join Meg as she discusses:

• Some big decisions that she's made in her life
• Coming back to your core and asking yourself how you choose happiness
• Knowing what you want from life will always be the first step
• Realising there is an element of autonomy over your lifestyle
• How shes chosen to accelorate her goals by making different choices
• Why things that make you happy will change, and your life isn't static
• How you have everything you need to make new choices in life

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk

Would you be happy owning a million-pound business? Villa in Spain? Driving the fancy cars and knowing you'd made a success out of your life?

After building her million-pound business from scratch, our guest this week shares her story of how the material things she worked hard for didn't bring her the happiness she was looking for. Driven by a determination to prove people she could be successful, she shares her story of how she ignored the niggle she had that her business was starting to take over her life.

Our conversation shines a light on why it is so important to avoid the comparison trap. We can so easily compare our lives on how they look, but how they feel is the only indicator of how our lives are. Emma's story is an incredible lesson in how prioritising your happiness can literally change your life.

Please note that themes of suicide are discussed within this conversation.

Emma discusses:

• That her teacher told her that she'd never make something of her life and how that drove her to build her business and prove them wrong
• She knew that if she wanted to be successful, she must work really hard, but this came at a sacrifice
• How easy it is to get into a situation where you're chasing milestone after milestone, but you're always thinking about 'what's next'
• Her deep-rooted belief that slowing down the growth of her business would be a failure
• Completely losing herself in her business, having no idea who she was or what made her happy
• The niggle that something wasn't right when she was forced to slow down to be with her little girl in hospital and how she continued to ignore this niggle for another ten years
• The impact ignoring this niggle had on her mental health, which led her to the darkest depression
• How she went back to work the day after her darkest day where she had planned to take her own life, lipstick on, the outside world none the wiser
• How she flipped her lifestyle from it only being around the end destination, but enjoying the journey too
• How she supports female entrepreneurs to start and scale their business for the right reasons

About Emma

Emma Hine, is a business strategist known as the Calibration Coach helping female business owners to find balance in their lives with happiness at the core. She ran a successful million pound e-commerce business, which ended up taking over her life which is why she is so passionate about helping others grow their business on their terms. Now a celebrated Amazon bestselling author, she is helping others see that success comes from doing things your own way with passion at the heart of what you do. And the biggest lesson of all is you don't need to sacrifice yourself to find what works best…

You can find out more about Emma at her website: www.emmahine.co.uk or by joining her facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/behappybesuccessful

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk

Janey is a number one Amazon best-selling author, TED X speaker and advocate of living a happier, healthier life by ditching putting harmful chemicals into our bodies. Our conversation sheds a light on how we've been thinking about our relationship with alcohol backwards, and how asking yourself one simple question may be the key to your happier life.

Janey brings her first-hand experience of questioning whether her alcohol consumption was making her life any better and how she now supports others through their sobriety journey, too!

Janey covers:

• How she was the queen of holistic living, but avoided the elephant in the room of how much she was drinking
• How our Society has conditioned us to believe that there are only two types of drinkers; those who have a problem, and those who don't
• How she had a voice in her head that was telling her drinking was not supporting her wellbeing
• How her life has become happier and healthier since she ditched the booze
• How not to focus on alcohol as a loss, but to focus on the things that you'll gain from removing a toxic liquid from the equation
• Why we crave the things that come with the alcohol, not necessarily the alcohol itself
• How no-one else should care about what is in your glass, suggesting keeping the ritual, but changing the ingredients
• How she supports her clients going through 'sober shaming' – and what you can do if you're supporting someone ditching alcohol
• How focussing on what you're gaining is a much stronger way to help you than 'giving up'

About Janey

Janey has written five books on Holistic living including the number One Amazon best seller Imperfectly Natural Woman and her latest book is Happy Healthy Sober – Ditch the booze and take control of your life which encourages everyone to look again at their relationship with alcohol. After ditching the booze Janey launched a podcast 'Alcohol Free Life' focusing on sober self-care, she gave a TEDx talk Sobriety Rocks- Who Knew! and runs The Sober Club, a platform offering a non-judgemental community for people who are committed to sobriety and want to 'upscale' their life without the booze and focus on health and wellbeing.

Janey is passionate about encouraging people to ditch the chemicals, focus on great nutrition, selfcare, and finding their purpose as she found for herself that quitting the booze was the missing link in the 'holistic living' picture.

She also offers coaching and is trained in EFT, Matrix Re-imprinting. and NLP.

Janey is married with 4 children and lives in Hertfordshire but longs to be by the sea

You can find Janey on Instagram at @janeyleegrace or thesoberclub.com

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk

When you sit back and think about your happiest self, can it be a little difficult to really let yourself think about it before your inner voice tells you that you're not being realistic?

So many of us struggle with thinking about life as better than it is now, and we've got a hunch about why!

Join Meg as she discusses:

• How we're taught to think about limits, and not our limitless self
• That if you've battled with your mental health and have coping mechanisms in place, it can be hard to image your life in any other way
• How visualisation doesn't have the be an image, and other ways to think about your future
• How compassion could be your best friend when visualising
• 5 tips to help you really think about you as the happiest verison of you

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk

This week we are joined with the incredible Mike Cole, chartered accountant and accredited coach. After realising that his 'quirks' at work were the things propelling his successful finance career, Mike stepped off his traditional career ladder to share his gifts with the world in a different way.

This conversation is a stark reminder of the role that work plays in our lives and how important it is to love what we do. Mike encourages you to really understand the things that make you special and show you that, with growth and development of these things, magic really can happen.

Mike covers:

• How he accepted that his dyslexia was a power that helped him develop his career
• How being in your strength zone leads to greater happiness in your life, AND this happiness leads to more productivity
• How the things that make us special can often come with a flip side that doesn't serve us, and that's okay too!
• The feeling he had been given a gift and was asked to do something with it when finding the courage to step off a traditional career ladder
• The three categories of weakness, and what to do about each of them
• The number one thing that stops us from leaning into the things we're special at
• How he accepted that the next logical move in his career didn't play to his strengths, so made the decision to choose a new career path based on the impact that he could make in the world.
• How finding work that you love is available to everyone, and there will always be a way to work out how it can pay you enough money
• His two top tips on how to find your strengths and weirdness
• His own definition of happiness

About Mike

I'm Mike Cole, a better-working-life coach. I can help you evolve a working-life that works for you, that fits your unique personality, and delivers the rewards you seek. I'm ICF-accredited coach and a chartered accountant too.

Don't just follow someone else's dream, or squeeze yourself into their idea of what business 'should' look like. The world needs you in your uniqueness - so let's unlock it together.

If you're inspired by this conversation, you can take Mike's quiz to see how much you're embracing you inner weirdness here:https://thisMikeCole.com/HappyTalk

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' Planner. You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk

Have you ever thought about what love is? Not the hallmark, romcom kind of love, love as an actual emotion.

We're taught to beleive that love is reserved for our romantic relationships or our close family and friends.... this simply isn't true. Human beings experience the emotion of love in many ways that we don't even recognise. We're here this week bringing you a different view of love that will help you invite more AND experience the benefits of it!

Join Meg as she discusses:

• The purpose of positive emotions and how they can help you become happier and achieve your goals
• Love is actually a fleeting emotion, it's not here forever
• How this opens up an opportunity for it to be experienced by us all, regardless of our circumstances
• The three reasons why love is one of the most useful emotions for you to experience
• How to look for micro-moments of love
• 2 ways you can seek more opportunities for love
• A tip on how to increase our experience of self love

About Meg

After living life in the rat race consistently driving towards the next thing, Meg changed her life by asking whether she was happy. The answer, 'I'm not 'unhappy' – but there has to be more than this' made her live life differently. Now a Positive Psychologist, she supports people to take ownership of their happiness and step into the happiest version of them using a blend of evidence based coaching and training solutions.

About happybyme

happybyme exists to support people to make great things happen by cultivating happiness. We beleive that by supporting people to take control of their happiness, more great things will happen in the world. We do this through our range of training and coaching solutions and our brand new 'Choose Happiness' planner.

You can find out more at www.happybyme.co.uk