1420 | Connie Podesta: “If You Want to Be Happier It Has to Be a Choice.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Want to have happy children? On today’s QOD, Connie Podesta reveals how your children’s happiness begins with you. It’s up to you to choose it.
Source: The Pursuit of Happiness – Connie Podesta
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, today's QOTS, if you want to be happier, it has to be a choice. |
| 0:06.3 | Here we go. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome back to the QOTS, I'm your host, Sean Crox and Sean Crox and Dotcom. |
| 0:37.8 | You know, I don't have kids. |
| 0:39.9 | Hopefully one day I will. |
| 0:41.8 | But if I do have kids one day, I want to make sure that they're very happy kids. |
| 0:50.5 | You know, my buddy, Jake Ducey has the happiest daughter in the world. |
| 0:56.3 | She is just happy all the time. |
| 0:58.3 | She's just smiling and singing and playing and why is that? |
| 1:03.4 | Because her parents are happy, right? |
| 1:06.8 | Her parents are just positive. |
| 1:08.4 | Her parents are like the ultimate role model for how to be positive, happy people. |
| 1:16.2 | And so if you want to have happy children, it begins with you, the parent. |
| 1:22.2 | So Connie Podesta is going to break this down and show you how happiness is a choice. |
| 1:28.6 | Connie Podesta, she's coming up. |
| 1:33.5 | So two years ago, I interviewed about 500 parents and I say, what do you want for your kids? |
| 1:37.4 | I only got one answer. |
| 1:38.6 | They want their kids to be what? |
| 1:40.8 | Happy. |
| 1:43.8 | Happy more than respectful. |
| 1:46.6 | Happy more than hardworking. |
| 1:49.0 | Happy more than compassionate. |
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