Exercising our brains appears to be equally as important as working out our bodies! Gaming seems to help a lot with having a high level mental functionality in areas trained by the game. Lumosity offers a workout for the mind scientifically designed to cover different tasks we commonly need to use such as speed, memory, flexibility, attention, and problem solving along with providing comparison data with fellow users! My exercise for today is to train my brain using the games on Lumosity which I do in the video version of day 125 of Happier People podcast on YouTube and Facebook!

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For Christmas in 2016, I bought myself a Dash masternode for around $11,000 which is worth $78,910 today on March 14, 2017. Should I sell it? My plan was to buy and hold it for at least a year to get the mining rewards and to pay capital gains tax which is must lower than income tax required if I sell before a year. When the price was at $40, I was thinking of selling it and now it is easy to see I would have missed out big time. What about viewer comments suggesting that I should not talk about having one because it could get stolen? Is my USD truly safe in the bank? Did I buy a Dash masternode just hoping to make money or did I want to contribute to the Dash community?

What is Dash? Dash is like digital cash or an upgraded Bitcoin with truly anonymous and instant transactions possible! What makes Dash awesome as a currency online or cryptocurrency or alt coin? DASH PAYS MINING REWARDS TO MASTERNODES! Dash has masternodes which require 1000 Dash and pay out mining rewards every week or two along with voting on budget proposals. In learning about Dash’s features, I felt it was undervalued and had better potential than most of the other crytocurrencies! In taking massive action after reading MONEY Master The Game by Tony Robbins, I sold everything on Poloniex into Dash to get enough for my masternode. At the time, this cost about $11,000! 3 months later, my investment is now worth around $78,000 and I think a lot more upward potential is possible because Dash has half the number of coins as Bitcoin while the price is just a fraction of what Bitcoin is!

Thank you for reading about day 124 of Happier People podcast! My exercise today is to trust my brothers and sisters on this planet, remember why I am here, and understand that nothing I get will be mine to keep.

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How often do we demand to know ahead of time what will happen and then feel anxious because of not knowing? Hear a story today as I walk through the grocery store with my daughter at Publix how I experience a simple situation of not remembering what my wife asked me to by for her and then remembering it only when I am close enough to the item to put it in my cart! Today I practice faith walking through life because I realize I know almost nothing important ahead of time and can enjoy great peace each day by accepting this fact as I try to use the information in front of me to do the best I can. Thank you for reading about day 123 of Happier People podcast here with me! Would you try my exercise with me of walking forward today in faith without demanding to know what will happen next?

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Will you believe that all of the worst problems in the world including climate change, war, crime, poverty, hate, unemployment, starvation, and corruption have one simple solution completely within our control? For most of my life, I felt like my individual effort to help the world be a better place was irrelevant with over 7 billion people living on earth. My personal choices felt irrelevant in the big picture because who cared if I tried to live better by saving a few gallons of water or reducing my CO2 emissions or eating a little bit less meat? Now I see that my decisions have a ripple effect that impact every other person on earth. Who I am, what I think, and how I act is based almost completely on what I have learned from others meaning that when I change what I do, that has an impact on everyone around me. Each choice I make today I see as important to helping fix all of the challenges we face as a human race. When I unconditionally love others, I do my part to reduce hate and discrimination. As I choose to avoid eating meat and animal products, I help reduce demand for production of resources that are contributing to poverty, starvation, climate change, and deforestation. During each day, I try to use only what I need reducing my consumption and therefore the production of everything I buy while being employed in the service of others. While I see that hoping to fix one problem or another through legislation or activism is pointless because the problems will just shift then to a different form, I also see that doing my part to live a simple life today in gratitude and consideration of my impact on the whole makes a HUGE difference as those doing it before me have made a great change in my life. The best part is that I receive the biggest reward in feeling happy with my own situation today and accepting that each choice I make does make a difference for all people on this planet. Thank you very much for reading about day 122 of Happier People podcast! My exercise is to look at the choices I am making today in how they impact the entire world and verify whether I want to keep making those choices or make new ones!

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We do not exist separately without relationships which is why asking questions like "What would make me happy?" and "What would I like to do today?" consistently bring unhappiness. Instead, if we ask "What would I do today that will benefit others the most?" or "How may I best serve the world today?" or "What would I love to do today that would be most helpful for all other human beings?" Asking better questions gives us better answers which then make being happy a consistently daily habit instead of a fleeting moment of pleasure that we always must chance. Most of the times of my life filled with depression, fear, anxiety, hate, sadness, and frustration included me relentlessly asking "How can I feel better?" and "Why do I feel like this?" and "What would make me happy today?" and "When will I have a better life?" and "Who can I get to make me happy today and give me what I want?" and "Where can I go to feel good?" and so many more selfish questions like this. These questions often produced answers such as getting a new girlfriend, going out to the bar, playing video games all day, and other behaviors which kept me stuck feeling the same way I had originally tried to escape. Today I ask better questions not because I am wise or enlightened but because my life depends on it. When I wake up today, I think about what the rest of the world needs me to do today starting with what do my wife, daughter, family, friends, YouTube subscribers, Facebook followers, and fellow human beings on Earth need me to do today? This often guides me here into another day of Happier People podcast where I share the thoughts, habits, and behaviors that give me the ability to enjoy my life here with you today instead of feeling like I am in a prison and simply waiting for my sentence to be up so I can leave this place and return home. Thank you for reading about day 121 of Happier People podcast here with me, Jerry Banfield! My exercise today is to keep asking questions aimed at being of maximum service to you and each other person today while working to notice if I ask a selfish question today and witnessing what answers I receive immediately afterwards. I appreciate you joining me in this journey of life and hope you have a wonderful day today!

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What has given me the ability to stop asking "how are you" when I see people and start simply looking at them to see how they are? How does hearing this help with being more insightful and loving when approaching people? Where can you look to see how someone is doing and truly help them when they need it? Why is asking how are you really more about getting attention and showing you care than actually hearing the story of how the person answering really is? Who really cares about the actual details of the story itself that we tell when asked how are you? When did I start seeing that asking how is it going is pointless because if a person really wants me to know, they will tell me without asking! Would you join me in considering these questions today on our quest to become happier people during day 120 of the vlog and podcast? Thank you for reading this! My exercise is to notice so completely how people are around me and love them so unconditionally that asking how they are becomes irrelevant!

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Will trying a 16 hour fast daily give me health benefits like detoxification, weight loss, improved brain functionality, promoting longevity, speeding up metabolism, managing hunger, focusing eating patterns, immunity boost, relief for skin conditions like acne, and even support with self-enlightenment? After reading the health section of Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss, I noticed consistently recommendations and testing with avoiding eating for a period of time which is called fasting. Religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all emphasize fasting in different ways along with Bahá'í Faith, Buddhism, Hinduism, and several others! Tim Ferriss also mentions a great consistency among the hundreds of people he interviewed was a tendency to avoid eating in the morning which my grandfather also did. Today I am giving this a try despite a lot of skepticism from my stomach with planning to begin eating at 11:30 am instead of 8 am after having had my last food at around 7:30 pm the night before. The purpose of testing this is to see how my body reacts and to continue to learn to be uncomfortable with discomfort. My exercise today is to follow through with this fasting test which I never would have done without being accountable here to you! Thank you for reading about day 119 of Happier People podcast here with me and I hope you have a wonderful day!

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Is each of us really an employee of all of our fellow human beings on this planet? Hear me explore a new way to think about working with freedom from defining everything in money earned and financial terms during day 118 of Happier People podcast!

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Hear what I loved about reading A Dog's Purpose: A Novel for Humans at

http://amzn.to/2my3gpa! The most amazing part of the book was hearing how the author W. Bruce Cameron explains the experience of creating this book by first narrating it to this girlfriend to help her feel better during a car ride in California. She recorded his entire telling of the book directly after the first time he told it and he says in the afterward that the book we are reading is infinitesimally different! I am grateful my sister gave this to me as a gift for Christmas and I took time to read it to help me learn how to better be a dog owner today of two rescue labradors. My exercise for today is to practice what I learned about unconditional love in this book. Thank you for reading and learning about day 117 of Happier People podcast! Would like to buy the book and give me a few cents as a tip for telling you about it using my link at http://amzn.to/2my3gpa which shows the book on Amazon?

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At least 10 people have told me over the last year or two that I should try stand up comedy. Would you share your opinion with me to help me decide if it is worth doing? I have had the feeling that I should also now for months and last night I just received a complete system for delivering it using Amazon to host the videos which would be explicit and then putting edited videos on YouTube and Facebook. Today I have learned that the best way to be happy is to walk the fine line between trying new ideas that have proven valuable and asking for feedback prior to taking action! After an overwhelming desire last night and this morning to get started, I remembered what I learned in Siddhartha which Tim Ferriss reminded me of in the beginning of his newest book Tools of Titans. First, be willing to think things through. Second, wait for the right time to act. Third, be willing to fast by facing the minor discomfort today that comes from planning the best long term solution without demanding life provide the food first. I ask for your help today in giving me the courage to create what I hope in stand up comedy might be helpful for people in laughing with me, being vulnerable, and reducing the burden of shame in keeping secrets we swear we will never tell! My exercise for today is to embrace the discomfort of the uncertainty in not knowing what to do next and practice asking for help from you today. If you comment on the video on YouTube, this is one of the best ways to help me see what you have to say! Thank you for reading about day 116 of Happier People podcast and I hope you enjoy it!

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