Thank you for joining us for episode 457 of Live Happy Now.

We're headed into March, and that gives us plenty of reasons to celebrate.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm talking with Live Happy's co-founder and CEO, Deborah Heise, because, well, we love March.

In addition to Daylight Savings Time and March Madness, it's our Happiness Month. And Deb is here to tell us what's new as we celebrate

our 10th year of Happy Acts. Let's have a listen. Deb, happy anniversary, 10 years of Happy Acts.

I know it seems like just yesterday we were doing our first Happy Axe campaign.

I really can't believe it's been 10 years.

I know.

Time flies.

Looking at my pictures of first Happy Axe Walls, which I have some pictures of that on the wall.

You know, my kids are really tiny in those pictures.

So I guess it has been 10 years.

Now that like one's driving and

they're all doing stuff. It happens. So for the uninitiated, before we get into what we're doing

this year, tell us what a happy act is. Well, a happy act is a small thing that you intentionally do to make the world a happier place.

They can be little things like paying someone a compliment, opening a door for someone,

buying a cup of coffee for someone, planning a date with a friend that you haven't seen for a while going out to lunch,

giving someone at the office a thank you note.

Any little thing that you do to make the world a happier place. But here's the catch. I think most people do those in their everyday

course of life. I mean, I certainly am nice to people and polite, and I know you are as well.

And I think most of our listeners certainly fall into that category. And we kind of do it

out of habit. When you do a happy act, do it with intention, because that way you benefit from it,

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