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Shameless Leadership

67: How to Create Happiness Boosters

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7800 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

I first heard of Happiness Boosters from the amazing Gretchen Rubin (author of The Happiness Project). In the last few months I’ve given considerable thought to how we can create joy or boost happiness on a whim.    Sure, I would love to do a weekend of wine tasting in Napa to boost my happiness. But that requires a lot of planning, travel, and money. It’s important to have big Happiness Boosters like this from time to time. But ,it’s also important to consciously create small happiness boosters for yourself, on a moments notice.    There is no end to the quick (and cheap) Happiness Boosters you can create for yourself – TODAY.    Take a few minutes to rearrange a space in your home or office so you really love spending time in it.    Get rid of something that has been annoying you forever and replace it with something that functions the way you want it to.   Invest in a little things that make a big difference in your quality of life or at least the quality of your day (like my cordless vacuum.)   Do something little to make your home or office more comfortable.   Create something that elicits an emotional response (frame those baby pictures you’ve been holding on to forever!)   These little things make a big difference in your daily happiness. This, in turn, impacts your overall quality of life. Don’t underestimate the little things. They are BIG.    Listen in – and then go get yourself a new soap pump!    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 67.

0:07.3

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you

0:12.3

and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood

0:16.6

and living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless every day,

0:22.1

because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of,

0:25.3

what kind of legacy are you building?

0:27.4

So let's dive in.

0:28.9

Hello, shameless moms.

0:30.3

How are you today?

0:32.3

I hope that your day has been full of smiles and joy.

0:36.6

Isn't that how every day in motherhood is?

0:38.0

Just always practically perfect in every way.

0:41.4

So I've been noticing lately that I've been doing little things that I was like,

0:48.1

I have to find a term for this.

0:49.4

Okay, so I came up with it by doing some Googling.

0:51.7

I'm calling them happiness boosters.

0:53.6

I've been doing these

0:54.3

little things where I'm like, oh, this brings me so much happiness. And it's very much in line with

0:57.7

my past little project I did about creating joy. It's very similar to that. So whatever you want to

1:03.2

call it, creating joy, happiness boosters, whatever. But the thing, when I realized I was doing

1:09.5

this, it had to do with something in my kitchen. So I'm

1:11.6

going to tell you about that in just a second. But I decided I wanted to do a whole podcast on this

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