Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

Let me just check.

Yep, yep, microphones on.

Everything is great.

Life is sweet.

Yes, good, good, good.

I'm very happy today.

I feel like I'm always happy at the moment.

I just feel very blessed to have the most

amazing people in my life and I'm just very, very grateful for it. And since the happiness podcast,

I have realised more and more that when it comes to happiness, the externals don't really matter that much.

You can be happy with very little and you can be unhappy with a hell of a lot.

And I do realise that I say this coming from huge privilege,

but I still think that that is absolutely the case.

And I mentioned this in the podcast happiness the happiness

podcast which was episode a couple before this one very specific but the predictors of happiness

are about 50% genetic about 10% life circumstance and about 50% genetic, about 10% life circumstance, and about 40% intentional actions.

And most of us assume, assume, one assumes, most of us assume that happiness is about what we have. So like that 10% life circumstances, we think

that's what will make us happy. So that would include things like money, traveling, your car,

like material things. But this only accounts for, as I said, about 10% of happiness. And if we kind of park genetics a little

bit, because there's not much we can do about genetics, and we focus on what we can control,

because there's no point focusing on what we can't control, what we can influence is those intentional activities, things like

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