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About Progress

AP 273: Ways to Choose More Happiness || with Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

About Progress

Cloud10

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest takeaways from interviews about happiness, has been about how to fulfill this need internally, rather than relying on external factors. If you are still struggling, consider reframing how to choose more happiness as owning your choices. That’s right! You can choose happiness.   “I DON’T LOVE MY LIFE, BUT I CAN’T CHOOSE OTHERWISE.”   Has that thought ever crossed your mind? Maybe it’s your family, your career, your personal development, or something else entirely that you blame for your unhappiness. If so, you can learn to feel empowered by your choices (even the ones you’ve already made!). Sacrifice after sacrifice will not lead to happiness, but proper growth and prioritizing will.   Psychotherapist, Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife joins us for her sixth (!!) interview to share how you can learn to choose more happiness and why it is so important. If you’re new to her, make sure to check out the past interviews here! This episode covers almost everything, from the very extreme to the very specific – she even lets us in on one of her client’s recent revelations during a counseling session. Ultimately we all have the agency to make choices, as well as the ability to find happiness within them.   This episode comes full circle with much of what you have already learned about happiness, priorities, putting yourself first, and finding joy. Tune in for one more push in the direction of finding, and choosing, what really makes you happy.   About a few other things...   In my efforts to embrace my inner hippie, I took a good hard look at the skin and makeup products I was using every day. It's important to me that they are clean, and in that search I found and love using Beauty Counter. They are high quality, effective, and free of lots of nasty ingredients that other products contain. This post shares allll my favorites or you can look around yourself here.   Sign up for the Go Getter Newsletter to get Progress Pointers in your inbox every Thursday.   SHOW NOTES Jennifer’s Website, Instagram, and Facebook Get the Organization Overhaul audio course Join the monthly membership group Get your first month+ FREE with Libsyn using code MONICA Lend your voice and experience + be featured on the show HERE Join Monica on Facebook and Instagram Songs Credit: DRIVE by Dj Nicolai Heidlas @nicolai-heidlas Music provided by FREE MUSIC FOR VLOGS AND VIDEOS bit.ly/freemusicforvlogs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You are listening to About Progress. This is episode 273. Ways to choose more happiness with Dr. Jennifer Finlinson Fife.

0:41.0

Now, Dr. Finlinson Fife Fife Jennifer has been on this show many times and she is by far

0:46.8

our most popular guest and I'm sure you know her and we're gonna have a quick intro for her

0:51.2

at the beginning of the episode but the reason I'm telling you all this is this is actually my favorite episode. My very favorite interview that we have done with Jennifer in particular. Now the reason why is because I think part of life

1:05.9

is making choices.

1:07.1

I talked about that.

1:08.0

I think last month, too, just how that is such an important, vital part of our existence here on earth making choices and

1:17.5

oftentimes that means we are making some difficult choices that are not easy.

1:23.0

And in fact, they can impact our happiness in real ways.

1:28.0

Oftentimes, we hear these sayings like,

1:31.0

choose happiness, choose your attitude, attitude get up today and be happy and

1:34.8

and while those can be very motivating it's not always super practical especially

1:40.4

when the choices the hard choices that you've had to make are, you know, directly impacting your ability to show up with a positive attitude and to be happy each day.

1:50.0

So what this episode is about is how we can find more happiness by owning our choices.

1:57.0

It's really a revolutionary thought and it's something that has changed my life in significant ways.

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It turns out the life is very messy and it's

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