As always, I'm your coach and Josh here.

I'm going to keep that in.

What is going on, everyone?

Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all, happy podcast.

As always, I'm her coach and host Josh here with.

His co-host and co-coach, KG, and I'm'm in the house today we're going to be talking to you all about

four different ways to use psychology to max your happiness in your life and some accompanying things

you can do as habits for teens um you know just activities to kind of complement that that you can do

day to day in your life and you know we haven't really just

specifically targeted that happiness component of the podcast so i think this is going to be a ton of

fun uh with these four psychology tricks to maximize your happiness and i'm going to jump right

into it with number one which is dopamine and this is known as the feel good hormone okay so

dopamine is that rush you get when you've

done something positive you've accomplished something it's that feeling of you know just achievement

of getting something done so some great examples of this are finishing a task you know being

you know grateful and practicing gratitude maybe meditating uh you know other self-care activities

you know different things like that they're going to build you up, you know, staying active and even creativity, you know, like spending time doing art, doing a task, like gardening, anything where you can get that sense of achievement, right? And it's so easy to think of, oh, I need to do massive things. I need to change the world. I need to do these crazy things but even for me sometimes you know when I'm not in a groove or I'm not feeling the happiness or I'm not feeling the most motivated I'm like I'm going to go make my bed or I'm going to go tidy this up or anything like that where you can just get a few minutes and then once you feel that dopamine you get that sense of accomplishment kind of hits you you're like this feeling. I'm going to keep it going. I'm going to keep challenging myself. And this

can be a great catalyst and a great tool you can use to get going. Even sometimes when I don't go to the gym, I'm like, okay, I'm going to, even this morning, you know, I'm like, hmm, I need to move the needle here and I just took a nice shower you know shave my beard and just felt really

fresh and ready to go and I felt that much more ready to tackle the day to crush that workout to go at it. So, you know, you can use this as a skill in your day to really kind of get a jump on it and to get ahead. Yeah. And I always like to say that like a lot of people think that, you know, you have to wait for motivation to take action. But I always say that taking action leads to motivation. I read that in a book recently. I think it was a habit book. And this is essentially coming from, you know, the hormone dopamine, right? So, you know, there's obviously lots of negatives as well, right? If you think of yourself the way that a lot of us are with Instagram and messages and comments and emails and stuff like that, like that, like that be a negative one, right? Where your dopamine just gets spiked up and even just sugar as well. You start to consume too much of that. You get a little too fired up, but it's not the right type, right? You know, and that's why focusing on these things like Josh said is definitely super, super important. And that brings us into number two, which is serotonin.

This is going to be the hormone that regulates your mood as well as your sleep, appetite,

digestion, learning ability, and memory.

And these are the things that like, and this is why I feel like personally I'm a very,

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