Sometimes we might feel as though happiness is not a choice. When John O’Leary was nine years old, he suffered burns over 100% of his body and he was expected to die. He's now an inspirational speaker, podcaster and bestselling author, teaching more than 50,000 people around the world each year how to live inspired. John encourages people to wake up from accidental living and lead an inspired life. Today on the podcast, he’s sharing why cultivating happiness is a choice and how you can choose happiness in the little things, along with the importance of having the right people in our lives to give us guidance.

What’s In This Episode:

• Leading a more intentional, inspired life by seeking joy and contentment
• How to find happiness in the little things
• Choosing the lens with which we see the world
• Needing the right people in our lives to provide guidance at the right time
• Dealing with trauma or difficult life experiences
• The three questions you should ask yourself daily

Traditions have a way of weaving time together. They allow us to retain and pass down our cultural beliefs, our spiritual beliefs, and even our family moral values. A tradition is any activity that is purposely repeated, and today we’re talking about how they help us create stronger bonds and connections, which is a key to happiness. We’ll also discuss the benefits of creating traditions and the three different types.

What’s In This Episode:

• Conserving energy and alleviating stress through traditions
• Strengthening family bonds over traditions
• Creating comfort and security by practicing traditions with your family
• Three types of traditions you’ll want to implement
• FREEBIE: the Creating Traditions download will help you brainstorm ideas and schedule in new traditions to try out weekly, monthly and yearly!

Relationships are one of those things that are at the top of our priority list, but in the busyness of our days, we sometimes forget to pay attention to that as a priority. Our connections with others are what builds into our overall happiness and improve our productivity. This week, we are talking about building and cultivating your partnerships, dealing with issues and conflicts, and letting go of unrealistic expectations in your relationship. We’ll also discuss the three keys to creating strong partnerships.

What’s In This Episode:

• The connection between our relationships and productivity
• Creating new experiences to feed your relationship
• Dealing with issues in a partnership as they come up & allowing yourself the space to constructively resolve conflict
• Letting go of unrealistic expectations in a relationship
• Three keys to creating strong partnerships

We’ve been talking about happiness all season long, and today we’re discussing the importance of connections and how that impacts your happiness. It’s important that we treat our friendships as the priority that they truly are because as humans, our need for love and belonging are the foundation for who we are. In this episode, we’ll discuss how important friendships and connections are, the way that connection impacts your health, and why it is important to build a friendship on a variety of different interests on multiple levels.

What’s In This Episode:

• Choosing connection in order to nurture relationships as an important part of our holistic selves
• Building true connection through quality time
• The impact connection and loneliness have on your health
• Showing up for collective moments of joy and pain to bear witness to human connection
• Creating relationships on common interests on multiple levels