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I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.

That's my passion.

Before I start with my guest today, I want to read something that I really enjoyed that I found over the weekend.

It's called What You Need for Happiness.

So what does make you happy?

What do you need for happiness?

You can strive for happiness and external things all you like, house, job, car, a loving partner, food, drug, shopping.

But those don't make you happy, at least not for long. And when they don't give you continual

happiness, then you have to keep striving for more. And your happiness is always the subject to the

whim of these external things and people. You can also find happiness within. You can learn that you

have some amazing things inside you, that they're beautiful if you learn to accept them for what they are,

and not try to meet up with any fantasy. You can learn that life is always amazing, as it is,

without the fantasies. And because the happiness is within, you aren't subject to losing it because people

aren't in the right mood or because of external events changing your source of happiness.

This means stripping away the fantasies one by one.

It means looking within and learning to be okay with what you find.

It's not an overnight process, but the amazingness is already within you.

It's all around you and actually within and without or not different things.

No fantasies needed.

I just thought that was a great excerpt.

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