267 // Happiness Lessons From My Mood-Tracking Experiment

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 267 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

In this episode, you'll learn about four happiness lessons from my mood-tracking experiment, including:

Accept that you don't always need to be happy
Social interactions can boost happiness (a lot!)
Morning exercise (of any kind) can help you experience more happiness during the day
Purpose and meaningful progress at work can make you feel happier at the end of the day

Head over to himalaya.com/stress and use the promo code STRESS for a 14-day free trial. This will give you access to my audio course, Managing Stress at Work (be sure to check out episode 10 for plenty of strategies to help you cultivate happiness at work).

Download your free copy of my 5-day Social Wellbeing Challenge at www.rachaelkable.com/podcast/267.

Thank you so much for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mindful Kind podcast.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, author of the Mindfulkind book, Mindfulness Teacher and blogger at
0:12.0	Rachelcable.com.
0:13.8	Each week, this podcast will bring meaningful tips, tools and strategies so you can manage stress
0:19.2	and live more mindfully in the modern world.
0:24.4	Hello and welcome to episode 267 of the Mindful Kind podcast. So last year I spent six months
0:32.5	tracking my mood three times a day to see if there was anything meaningful I could learn about myself and my
0:38.9	different moods. Now the reason that I did this was really just because I noticed myself feeling
0:44.1	much more emotional than usual. I could wake up feeling anxious and do a few self-care activities
0:50.3	like practicing mindfulness and doing in yoga and then feel great for a few hours.
0:56.1	But then a tiny little thing would trigger surprisingly intense anger or frustration.
1:01.7	And I just thought tracking my mood might be a way to learn some helpful things or get a
1:06.1	clearer insight into my emotional well-being.
1:09.3	Anyway, tracking my mood was a really interesting exercise
1:12.7	and I'm so glad that I did it and now I'm excited to share some of the things that I learned,
1:18.3	particularly around happiness. So the first lesson that I learned about happiness was that you
1:23.7	can't always choose to be happy. Yes, I think you can cultivate an optimistic outlook.
1:30.0	Yes, you can make an effort to have more fun.
1:32.5	And yes, some days I woke up and thought,
1:35.3	today I'm going to do my best to choose happiness whenever possible and appreciate it.
1:40.5	But happiness isn't always predictable.
1:43.7	It isn't as easy as clicking your fingers and being able
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