The Happier You: Empowering Your Journey to a Joyful and Fulfilling Life

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

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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?

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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!

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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.  

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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. 

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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.  

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook

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.

Wish you journaled more, but struggle to make the time or never know what to write?

Join me on Oct 8th at 8 pm Eastern, for a free guided Journal Club experience.

Come as you are. I’ll provide the prompts and the space to slow down, reflect, reconnect with yourself, and spend an hour with an incredible community of women who are learning to live more intentionally.

✓ No journaling experience required

✓ No pressure to share

✓ Just bring yourself and a notebook