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I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at

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Each week this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress

and live more mindfully in the modern world.

Hello and welcome to episode 251 of the Mindful Kind podcast.

I hope you're well and having a really lovely week so far.

In this episode, I'm really looking forward to talking about life satisfaction and some powerful

habits that can help boost it.

So let's just dive in.

Life satisfaction measures how people evaluate their life as a whole, rather than just

their current feelings or experiences.

It's different from happiness in that happiness is generally something you feel in your life,

whereas life satisfaction is more how you feel about your life.

You can be sad or angry or stressed and still have a sense of life satisfaction.

And life satisfaction tends to be more stable and long lasting than

experiences of happiness. Life satisfaction can be influenced by a variety of factors such as family,

career, values, life events, self-esteem, personality and your outlook on life. However, there are also

some habits you can cultivate that can potentially boost your sense of life satisfaction.

The first habit is to practice gratitude, which is the quality of being thankful or showing

appreciation. Research has found that more gratitude leads to higher life satisfaction, which further

boosts gratitude.

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