You're listening to the Confidence Podcast. Your favorite coaching podcast oozes in with motivation, inspiration, and confidence to help you boldly take action on your dreams.

On your host, Trish Blackwell, internationally recognized Confidence Coach, best-selling author, and founder of the College of Confidence, the most encouraging place on the Internet.

I teach go-getters in life how to take their thoughts captive, how to step out of the shadows of self-doubt, and how to courageously step into their purpose with confidence.

It's time to pump our confidence muscles and train our thoughts y'all. Let's get started.

Hey guys, it's Trish Blackwell, your Confidence Coach, and you're listening to the Confidence Podcast episode number 485.

We're talking about happiness today, and the art of happiness, even if your life is a mess. That's right, I said it because I think so many of us say, well, I'll be happy when life's just not so messy, or once this person's happy, then I can be happy.

So often we interact and have a relationship with happiness that isn't an if-then statement, or if only I was skinnier than I'd be happier, or if only I liked my job, then I could be happy.

I've got good news for you today. Your circumstances have nothing to do with your happiness. Happiness is a decision, and everyone wants to be happy, but most people aren't.

And I want you in today's episode to feel empowered, to know that you can learn how to tap into a life of happiness, even if your life feels like a mess, once you learn the art of happiness.

So, we're talking about why happiness sometimes ludes you, and how you can create more of it in your life, without your circumstances changes, that changing, that's right, without that brand new car, without that hotter boyfriend, without the children that you have that you that are perfectly behaved, without being richer, or skinnier, or more popular, period.

And as always, you can get all the show notes at trishblackwell.com forward slash 485 for this episode number. And more specifically, I'm coaching today on how happiness really isn't an accident.

It's not for the lucky few, and how you really can create it for yourself if you decide you want it.

We talk about wanting it, but we don't actually decide that we do.

And so, we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about why some people are happy and others aren't. We're going to talk about the art of happiness and how to engage in it daily, how to get better at practicing the art.

You become a great artist by doing it, doing art often. You become a great athlete by doing your sport consistently. It's the stuff that makes greatness is the stuff that no one sees.

Great athletes become great, not because they have a couple good practices or good games. They're great because of what they're doing when no one else is looking.

The same with art, the same with writing, the same with anything. And so the same thing with happiness.

And I want to also invite you into a discussion about the messiness of a happy life and what happy really looks like.

And as since we're speaking of happy things, I want to say to you, happy international women's day.

If you're listening to this live, it is March 8th, which is International Women's Day. And I want to say happy day to you, women and men out there.

Because if you're a man listening, I'm so glad you're here. And surely there are women in your life that you want to honor and love as well.

And I just, I'm so grateful on a day like today that just recognizes women because it's for our four mothers who came before us.

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