079: Choosing Happiness
The Intentional Advantage
Tanya Dalton
4.6 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
What does happiness have to do with productivity? Everything. The goal of productivity is to find ways to create space, to focus our time, our energy, and our effort into what really matters most, the result of which is happiness. Today we start season 7, on cultivating happiness through productivity. We’ll start with discussing the idea of choosing happiness. I’ll talk about what it looks like to choose happiness, how to handle our negative emotions and inner critic and four mindset shifts that you can start making today.
What’s In This Episode:
- Choosing happiness & the realistic choices you can start making to cultivate happiness
- Showing up to your emotions so that you can bring happiness into your everyday life
- Being happy and being comfortable: What’s the difference?
- Four mindset shifts you can start making today
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 7 of Productivity Paradox from Inkwell Press, a podcast focused on using |
| 0:07.5 | productivity not just to get more done, but to accomplish what's most important. Join Tanya this |
| 0:12.8 | season as she focuses on cultivating happiness through the power of productivity. To get her |
| 0:17.4 | free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply go to inkwellpress.com |
| 0:22.6 | slash podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton. |
| 0:27.9 | Hello, hello, everyone. |
| 0:29.7 | Welcome to Productivity Paradox. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, owner of Inquell Press, and this is episode 79. |
| 0:37.6 | Today is the first episode of Season 7, which is all about cultivating happiness through productivity. |
| 0:44.8 | Now, I know you might ask, what does happiness have to do with productivity? |
| 0:49.5 | And I would say, everything. |
| 0:52.3 | After all, what's the goal of productivity? Is it really to do more, to cram more |
| 0:58.4 | things into our hectic days? Or is it to find ways to create space, to focus our time, our energy, |
| 1:05.6 | and our effort into what really matters most? The result of which is happiness, right? Now, I came up with the idea |
| 1:14.7 | for this season after reading the result of our surveys, where I asked so many of you for ideas |
| 1:20.5 | of what you wanted me to talk about on my YouTube channel. And I found that a lot of your questions |
| 1:25.6 | centered at their core around the idea of happiness. |
| 1:29.3 | So we'll be exploring all kinds of topics, including creating space for relationships, |
| 1:35.3 | savoring time, scheduling the unschedulable, and more. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm really excited to kick off the season with today's topic, which is about choosing happiness. |
| 1:47.0 | I believe one of the first things we really need to learn when we're talking about happiness is how we can choose to be happy. |
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