06. Happiness is a Choice with Michael Alden
Happiness Solved
Sandee Sgarlata
5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
📺 Michael has been doing infomercials for ten years! 1:28
🤕 Growing up was very difficult for Michael, and he was shot as a 14-year old teenager. 5:18
😇 He was going down the wrong path, but then he made a decision to change. 8:06
🎯 Health and happiness are the most important things, but you need to work towards happiness. 11:24
🤔 Self-awareness is important and answering some essential questions can help you achieve it. 13:49
🌞 Cocaine, alcohol, sugar, or any type of addiction has its difficulties, but it is important to get back up again when you fall off the wagon. 16:37
🤩 Michael follows some good habits every day. He surrounds himself with the word happy, reminds himself of three things he is grateful for, and practices transcendental meditation. 18:53
🧘♂️ Transcendental meditation changed his life eight years ago after he had a massive panic attack. 20:39
🧑⚕️ If you feel down, depressed, or in bad mental shape, ask for help from a medical professional because it is essential to talk to someone. 25:05
👆 If you are not ready for therapy, you are not going to be successful with it. 27:51
🥼 How Michael started his CBD product line and the science behind transcendental meditation. 29:04
🙏 Neuroplasticity shows us that you can rewire your brain with meditation, prayer, or yoga. 35:45
✌️ If we don’t agree, we don’t have to hate each other. 37:45
📢 Michael likes to share his knowledge about good things that can help people like cryptocurrency, CBD, and transcendental meditation. 40:23
📵 Cut toxic people out of your life and find other people you can communicate with. 42:48
🥃 Alcoholism can hurt you and those around you. 46:04
🍫 Sugar is as addictive as heroin. 47:20
🌠 Strive for excellence because things will never be perfect. 48:51
📚 Michael has written a lot of books, but his latest book, Best Seller Secrets, is his free gift to authors around the world. 49:44
📱 The ability to connect with people and to develop relationships quickly on Clubhouse is remarkable. 53:24
Connect with Michael:
https://www.bestsellersecretsbook.com/home
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikealden2012
https://twitter.com/mikealden2012?lang=en
Connect with Sandee
https://www.facebook.com/coachsandeesgarlata/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Happiness Solved with Sandy Skarlata. |
| 0:16.4 | Stay tuned for my interview with Michael Alden. |
| 0:24.7 | Welcome to Happiness Solved. |
| 0:26.8 | I am really looking forward to today's interview with Michael Alden. |
| 0:30.6 | He has been a best-selling author multiple times. |
| 0:34.0 | He has been on dozens of networks promoting products with his infomercials, and you can |
| 0:40.4 | learn more about his books and the products that he promotes on Michaelalden.net. |
| 0:49.2 | Hey Michael, how are you today? |
| 0:51.9 | Fabulous, it's early though, I'll get better. |
| 0:55.2 | It's early. |
| 0:56.2 | I see that all the time I learned that from Zig Zig, he taught me that, and I had the |
| 1:01.6 | opportunity to do some things with him, I did an infomercial for him back in the day, |
| 1:06.0 | I went to the 59th anniversary, it was 21st birthday, and he taught me that, so it freaks |
| 1:12.0 | people out, especially if people you don't know, you're at the drive-through or they say, |
| 1:15.8 | how are you doing? |
| 1:16.8 | I said, I'm fabulous, but I'll get better. |
| 1:18.1 | What's better than fabulous? |
| 1:19.1 | I don't know, but I'm just trying to get there. |
| 1:22.9 | So I saw on your website that you've done a lot of infomercials, what kind of infomercials |
| 1:27.6 | have you done? |
| 1:28.6 | That's pretty cool. |
| 1:29.6 | So I've been on TV for the past 10 years, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all the |
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