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Podcast #485
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Everyone wants to be happy, but most people aren’t. You can learn how to tap into a life of happiness, even if your life is a mess, once you learn the art of happiness. In this coaching podcast, learn why happiness sometimes eludes you and how you can create more happiness in your life, without your circumstances changing. Get the full show notes at www.trishblackwell.com/485
Happy International Women’s Day!
Go glad.
Hi Trish, I had found your podcast via “keep the faith” about 4 years ago. I do believe God led me to you. Growing up I had a wonderful loving family (still do) however I always felt sad. IT made me feel even worse because I didn’t have anything to make me feel that way. I ‘ve always had felt left out and struggled with friend issues that made me feel like something is wrong with me. I have been hooked on your podcast and I tell everyone about you because I have feel myself improving!!! Slowly but surely. I not longer thank I’m the only one. And boy, is that a relief! You have BLESSED me for these past 2 years and all for FREE!!!!! I feel the LOVE and “back at cha baby!” So glad I joined the college for the next chapter of Happiness! Love, Deanna
Everyone’s life is messy.
Your circumstances aren’t what make you happy – your thoughts are.
It’s not just for the lucky.
It’s for the intentional.
It’s available to everyone.
NBC news poll recently found that only 14% of Americans reports to be very happy. That’s down from 31% who said the same in 2018. 45% of Americans reported feeling isolated or lonely.
(64%) report being happy: 14% very much so and 50% rather so. Countries with the highest proportion of adults considering themselves as very happy are Canada (29%), Australia, Saudi Arabia and India (28% each), Great Britain and the United States (27% each). (Global Happiness Study 2019)
Most likely because you’re looking to your circumstances to make you happy.
It’s your thoughts that creates happiness, not what happens in your life.
Too focused on the wrong things
-fear
-what could go wrong
-“being realistic”
-avoiding emotions
-what other people might think
-achievement for fulfillment
We’re distracted by our own business
We stay too busy to be happy.
95% of our 60-80,000 thoughts per day are repeated thoughts.
HAPPINESS HABITS
Activate appreciation
Reframing thoughts
Mental maintenance
Physical activity
Time to be
Other Contributors to Happiness
Adventure
Falling is learning
Openness
Curiosity
Happiness doesn’t mean that it’s a state of permanence.
It’s an emotion, that ebbs and flows, and when you feel it, you ride it. When is recoils, you know another wave is coming – nothing has gone wrong.
“there is taken care of”
Intentional and active appreciation
What about others who drag you down?
“must stink to be in their brainโฆ”
“there thoughts are their choices, I’m grateful I know how to not stay in a funk
#483: Self-Validation: The Art of Not Needing Other People to Tell You “Good Job”
#474: Affirmations for a Happy Holiday
#450: How to Stop Feeling Awful About Yourself
#430: How to Make a Good Life a Great Life
Hi Trish. I’ve been listening to your content for the last couple of years! I think you are amazing and love what I learn from you. However, I have one big thing holding me back in life. _________. I continue to beat myself up over it. I am a God loving woman and often wonder how I could have done such a thing. I always hear you say you are worthy, but wonder does that still apply to me? Am I s till worthy? I am curious to your opinion as a fellow Christian woman. Thank you.
Noah was a drunk
~ Abraham was too old
~ Isaac was a daydreamer
~ Jacob was a liar
~ Leah was ugly
~ Joseph was abused
~ Moses was a murderer had a stuttering problem (Moses stuttered)
~ Gideon was afraid
~ Samson was a womanizer
~ Rahab was a prostitute
~ Jeremiah and Timothy were too young
~ David was an adulterer and a murderer
~ Elijah was suicidal
~ Isaiah preached naked
~ Jonah ran from God
~ Naomi was a widow
~ Job went bankrupt
~ John the Baptist ate bugs
~ Peter denied Christ
~ The disciples fell asleep while praying
~ Martha worried about everything
~ The Samaritan woman was divorced (more than once)
~ Zacchaeus was too small
~ Paul was too religious
~ Timothy had an ulcer
~ Lazarus was dead!
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God can use anyone โ Verses & Quotes
2 Corinthians 12:9, NLT My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.
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