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The teen years can be fun and exciting, but also filled with self-doubt, insecurities, and lots of

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Hey everyone. Welcome to the podcast this week. How's everybody doing? This week is our

Happiness Habits series series episode three,

and I'm going to be talking about purpose with you guys today. Happiness, you guys,

is not a constant state. You are going to have good days and you're going to have bad days,

which is a normal part of life. But I love this happiness habit series

because if we are proactive about our happiness, we are going to have less sad days. And if we have

less sad days, we are at less risk for developing anxiety and depression. Happiness matters

because it feels good. It also contributes to greater physical and mental health,

and it's correlated with a greater satisfaction in life, and it's linked with more capabilities

to contribute towards your community and the surroundings around you, okay? And so the last two

episodes I talked about gratitude and nature as contributing

factors to being happy. And then today, I'm going to be talking about purpose. And what I mean by

purpose is the reason for which you exist. So I want you to think, why do you think knowing the

reason you exist creates happiness for you? When I talk about purpose, I kind of like to relate it to a toothbrush.

If we look at it on the counter, it's a toothbrush.

But when we think about the reason that the toothbrush exists, it's like, oh, the toothbrush

exists to keep my teeth beautiful and clean and to keep my mouth from having cavities and keep my teeth healthy

and keep me being able to eat things and not have bad breath. It's like, oh, that toothbrush really

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