186: Happiness is a Skill, and This 5-Minute Habit Can Help You Get Better at It

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Education, How To, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Dan Harris had me at "meditation for skeptics." In the last 5 years, it seems like meditation has gone from a weird woowoo practice to a daily staple of most top entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders. But so far, I haven't been able to get into it. Have you? I've tried a few of the guided meditation apps, including Headspace and Calm, but when I tried meditating in the morning, I had this impatient feeling like I should just get on with my day and start work.

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0:00.0	Side Hustle Show 186.
0:01.6	Happiness is a skill in this five minute habit
0:04.6	can help you get better at it.
0:06.4	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show.
0:09.1	Where aspiring part-time entrepreneurs learn
0:11.4	how to turn their side husthousled dreams into reality.
0:14.8	Because your 9-to-5 may make you a living, but your 5-9 makes you alive.
0:19.8	And now your host, Nick Loper.
0:25.0	What's up?
0:26.0	What's up, Nick Loper here?
0:27.0	Welcome to the Science Hustle show
0:28.0	where it's all about ideas, action, and results toward building
0:32.0	job-free income.
0:33.3	Today's show is more of an ideas episode,
0:35.7	and specifically we're talking about the idea
0:37.6	and the concept and the practice of meditation.
0:40.7	Now, admittedly, sitting in silence and focusing on your breath is not going to directly
0:47.0	make you any more money or cross any of the important tasks off of your to-do list, but there's
0:52.2	some science behind this. A five-minute daily
0:55.0	meditation habit could improve your health, your mental focus, and most importantly, your
0:59.4	happiness. Now I know I shy away from the woo-woo stuff on the show and I promise a return to your regularly
1:05.2	scheduled side hustle programing next week, but that's the ultimate goal of your side hustle anyway, right?
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