Happy Life Story
Ready to change your life? Looking for your weekly dose of happiness coaching? Wish you had access to a life coach each week to inspire and empower you? Weekly topic discussions such as personal growth, being happy, finding your passion, living with purpose and transforming your life. Learn what living a happy life can mean and live as if your happiness is inevitable. Join us for inspiration, personal stories, common sense solutions and some honest coaching. Welcome to Happy Life Story, I’m Melissa. And I’m Lani. We’re discussing how to create your Better Life Story.
Episodes
11 episodes
11. Why You Should Stop Trying to be Happy
"Desiring a positive experience is itself a negative experience. And the acceptance of a negative experience is itself a positive experience." I got this great quote from Mark Manson. I saw on this YouTube video the other day.A...
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21:06
10. How to Change Your Perspective
Learn about a tool called The Model that lets you see how your thoughts and feelings lead to your actions and the results you create in your life.Often it only takes a small change in perspective to make a large change in your life.
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Episode 10
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27:23
9. Why it's Hard to be Happy
The reason it's difficult to be happy is because our brain is programmed to listen to the Motivational Triad:seek pleasureavoid painconserve energyLearn how our primitive brain affects our decisions in...
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Episode 9
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20:08
8. 3 Steps to Begin to Change Your Life
Do you ever think, "I really want to create more happiness in my life, but I feel stuck. I just can't get going. I want things to be different, but I have no idea where to begin. I want positive change, but I feel like I'm in a rut. What should...
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Episode 8
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14:31
7. Client Question: How to Handle Self Doubt?
Today, we're going to answer a listener question. She says, Every time I get involved inan activity, something in me takes over saying that I'm not good enough, or something is wrong in the way I'm doing it. Then I immediately stop and star...
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Episode 7
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15:19
6. The Importance of Social Skills
The 5th Component of Emotional Intelligence: Social Skillsdo not let other people's emotions rub off on yousomeone who has stronger emotional intelligence tends to be happieryou have to understand yourself ...
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Episode 6
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7:22
5. Why Empathy is a Key Ingredient of Emotional Intelligence
The fourth part of emotional intelligence is Empathy. The definition that we have for empathy as it relates to emotional intelligence is having a high EQ, versus an IQ, meaning being able to understand what others may be feeling and...
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Episode 5
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8:04
4. What Motivation can Teach You about Yourself
Today we are talking about another core part of Emotional Intelligence: Motivation.The definition for motivation is: emotionally intelligent people are motivated by things beyond money, fame or success. They're also able to understand a...
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Episode 4
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6:19
3. How Self Regulation can Change your Life
How Self Regulation can Change your LifeThere's 5 different components that make up the broader definition of Emotional Intelligence. Today we are talking about #2, Self Regulation. Definition: being able to regulate an...
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Episode 3
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6:53
2. Why Self Awareness is Critical to your Happiness
Why Self Awareness is Critical to your HappinessToday we are talking about Emotional Intelligence. A very big topic. What is emotional intelligence? It is the ability to perceive, interpret, demonstrate, control and ...
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Episode 2
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9:46