Happiness is out of this world. Join us as we reach for the stars on this episode of Live Happy Now.

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

To think about positive psychology, it's a science. And it's actually younger than the internet believe it or not the reality is that social

connection is in the research the greatest predictor we have of long-term happiness you have some

factors in your control they can promote the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely

most important asset,

which is your brain.

And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.

We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day.

Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place.

This is Live Happy Now. Hello and greetings and welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast. I'm your host, J.R. Houston, thrilled that you are making us a part of your day, wherever you are in the world, and however you may be listening. We're also excited because coming up very soon is a new issue of Live Happy magazine. So be checking newsstands everywhere.

Also be checking the digital edition, which is available in the Google Play and the Apple Store.

You can put it on any Apple phone or Android phone or any iPad or Android device.

You can take it with you wherever you go, and you can get special features that are only available on the digital edition.

So, you know, why not do both?

On this episode, I'm very excited because I was a little space nerd as a kid.

I mean, I literally collected Apollo mission toys.

And then, I got to talk to a real astronaut.

How cool is that?

Mike Massimito served with NASA from 1996 to 2014 and is the veteran of two space flights to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Mike's story is truly inspiring. His book, Spaceman, is the tale of his unlikely journey to becoming an astronaut from his small town in Long Island to Columbia and

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