Hi friends. This week we're talking about happiness. The field of psychology for a

very long time was focused on making bad people okay as opposed to okay people

better or happy people even more happy. I'm happy to sit down pardon the pun with

Susanna Hallenan who is the world's first happyologist. She is a positive

psychology specialist. The author of Happiness is here and screw finding your

passion. She's a published researcher, TEDx speaker, online columnist and a

regular commentator in the media from the BBC to the Huffington Post and more.

And we're going to try and find out how we become a little bit happier in life.

I was incredibly surprised at how many basic steps we can take in our day-to-day

life to actually make our level of happiness. Our baseline level of satis

faction improved. It was very enlightening and there was a lot of new

information that came out of this. Now one of the key tools that Susanna

suggests that everybody should be using is a journal and I know that I will be

asked for some advice on which journal I recommend, which one I use. So the

six-minute diary which I've mentioned on numerous life hacks the podcast with

Warren Cass and the podcast with you in Lawson will be linked in the show notes

below. It's my favorite way to develop a journaling habit three minutes on

the morning, three minutes in the evening with prompts for questions. Susanna

gives you a lovely little program that you can follow as well on a weekly and a

daily basis. You can add those in. I've chosen to, as there are sections in the

diary, to add weekly notes as well. If you follow the link in the show notes

below you will be supporting this channel at no extra cost to yourself. So

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