103: Happiness Is A Skill [Podcast]

Dr Taylor Marshall Podcast

Dr. Taylor Marshall

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 11 February 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Taylor Marshall Show. This is the
0:20.7	podcast for everyone who wants to create daily habits and
0:23.6	weren't enough theology to take their faith to the next level. My goal this week
0:28.0	is to talk to you about developing the skill of happiness.
0:32.0	Happiness isn't just something that happens.
0:34.7	It's something that we must practice.
0:36.6	It's like a virtue, a good habit.
0:41.6	Well, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world and
0:45.9	welcome back to the show. Today we're talking about happiness. You know the English
0:51.1	word happiness is related to the word happenstance or what happens and that's why
0:57.0	Sometimes I don't like using the word happiness. I prefer to use words like joy, felicity, beatitude, and peace.
1:06.8	And we'll see how some of those things work together.
1:09.1	But most people in their everyday conversation are using the word happiness and in fact when you read good
1:15.6	translations of Aristotle or of Thomas Aquinas sometimes when Thomas speaks of
1:21.0	Beatitude or felicitos, felicity, it's translated as
1:26.7	happiness and since that's the case and since we use English we're going to go
1:30.9	with it and use the word happiness, but I want to stress today that happiness as I mentioned in the opening is not based on what happens
1:39.9	It's a skill set. It's something that you must practice just like throwing a baseball honing in your golf swing
1:48.8	Being good at anything happiness is something that you decide to do and then you practice every
1:56.5	single day. So we're going to give you some tips, some advice on how to work on that
2:02.1	skill set of choosing to be happy and achieving
2:06.6	happiness in this life and of course it's related to our Lord Jesus Christ and the
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