1241: Happiness Is a Choice by Ira Israel on Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices to Be Happier

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🗓️ 5 May 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Ira Israel shares his thoughts on happiness being a choice. Episode 1241: Happiness Is a Choice by Ira Israel on Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices to Be Happier Since 2011, Ira Israel has been working in private practice as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC #31) and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #50646), teaching sold-out transformational workshops, producing a series of best-selling mindfulness DVDs, and writing about psychology, philosophy, Buddhism, yoga, film, art, music & literature for the Huffington Post, Good Men Project, Mind Body Green, Thrive Global, Medium and Quora. The original post is located here: https://iraisrael.com/happiness-is-a-choice/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 1241.
0:03.4	Happiness is a choice by IraIsraelofIraIsrael.com and I'm your narrator Justin
0:09.2	Mollick reading you blogs every single day of the year to help you live a more meaningful life.
0:13.8	Taze Argos from a brand new author to the show.
0:16.8	Ira is a licensed professional clinical counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist
0:22.4	with 30 years of experience working with award-winning filmmakers, musicians, artists,
0:28.1	writers and more. Check out IraIsrael.com for more info. You can even schedule a session there
0:33.8	with him. I have the site linked in this episode's description. And with that, let's hear our very
0:38.4	first pose from him as we optimize your life. Happiness is a choice by IraIsraelofIraIsrael.com.
0:50.8	Quote, it is not true that money can't buy happiness. It can. That's the good news.
0:57.8	The bad news is that it's someone else's happiness. Nick Hornby.
1:03.1	Spoiler alert, the last line, the summation of my new experiential documentary Mindfulness for Urban Depression,
1:10.8	is an abulliant happiness is a choice. For those who have seen the DVD and agree with its critique of our fast-paced,
1:18.3	overstimulated, pressurized, stressful, urban lives, I'd like to qualify that conclusion.
1:24.4	Rather, if I were going to make the DVD again, I would end with happiness is a lifestyle choice,
1:30.0	or possibly happiness is a commitment to lifestyle choices. Growing up in the suburbs of New
1:36.3	York in the 1970s and 1980s, my fellow students and I learned the typical ideals of the American dream
1:43.0	and the good life. Go to a good university, get a good, high-paying job, buy a nice car,
1:49.6	get married, buy a house, have children, send them to college and prepare for retirement.
1:55.5	Many of my peers taint these goals, but still were not happy.
1:59.7	Although I often find scientific means of measuring happiness analogous to trying to measure
2:04.6	milk with a ruler, it is clear from the research of scholars such as Martin Saligman and Ed DeAnne or
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