If you're looking for a happy place you have found it, this is live happy now.

Thank you so much for making us a part of your day.

I'm your host, J.R. Houston, and we are excited that you are here for a podcast dedicated to helping you find your true happiness through powerful psychology and relatable insights that you could apply to your daily life.

We're brought to you, of course, by Live Happy magazine, available on newsstands now, and you can find out more at LiveHapy.com.

And while you're online, checking out live happy.com,

surf on over to lifereimagined.org as well. They are our partner in this, and they've got a ton

of tremendous resources and even processes and exercises for you to go through to help you discover

your true happiness. You know, as you awaken to the power of happiness, so do your dreams.

So what's next? Well, find out

at life reimagine.org. In this edition of Live Happy Now, we are going to get the opportunity

to hear from one of our favorite people, Tom Rath, who is a researcher and author who studies the

role of human behavior in business, health, and well-being. He sat down for a conversation with our editor-at-large, Stacey Kaiser, and we are excited to bring it to you. Now, if you don't know much about Tom, you may have heard of some of his books, including his latest, are you fully charged, the three keys to energizing your work and life? Not only is it receiving great critical acclaim, but it's going to be made into a feature-length documentary,

and it's, in fact, in its late stages of production.

So in this conversation, you're going to be hearing Tom and Stacey discuss the importance of positive interaction

and how to handle negative moments.

Tell us a little bit about what those three keys are and how you came up with them.

Yeah, you know,

it's interesting to kind of first go back to where a lot of this most recent work and research started. I've been working on books kind of in the general field of happiness and positive

psychology and well-being for more than a decade now and so much great research on these topics,

but yet I realized as I sat down a year or two years ago that

I'm just trying to figure out like everybody else, how do I apply some of these things on a day-to-day

basis into my routine, kind of hour by hour and moment by moment.

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