Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. Welcome to the 50th episode of the simple

Sophisticate and good morning we're talking about happiness today and I don't

know of a better way to start the week than to about the 30 ways you can

about happiness.

Today's episode is about the 30 ways you can design a happier life.

And it was inspired from my reading of Dr. Paul Dolan's book

designed by happiness change what you do not how you think and the moment I picked this up, which was admittedly a few months ago, I was intrigued.

I mentioned a few of the principles he speaks about in the first few chapters in the weekly newsletter that goes out to

subscribers about this equation that is seemingly so simple but that we often

dismiss or ignore or really aren't aware of and I'll get to that in today's episode.

But before I dive in I wanted to give you a brief teaser of what this week's

petit pleasure is. It is a book I have been and have devoured and

you've seen it on my Instagram feeds and I've talked about it with a few of the

commenters on the blog and on Instagram and I cannot

wait to talk to you more about it at the end of today's episode so please

stay tuned. All right but let's get back into today's episode.

Why not design a happy life?

Let me begin with a quote from the author of the book I just mentioned, Dr. Paul Dolan.

He says, you will be the happiest you can be when you allocate

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