Welcome to a happy place. This is the Live Happy Now podcast. Hello, I'm your host, J.R. Houston. Glad you are making us a part of your week, wherever you are in the world. Also want to thank our partner, Live Happy magazine.

The new issue is available now.

Jillian Michaels on the front, all kinds of great information in there for you.

We will have more on that coming up in just a moment.

Want to thank our other partner, LifeReimagined.

Their website, LifeReimagined.

It's got all kinds of things for you to try out as you make that journey toward your peak happiness as you awaken to the power of happiness so to your dreams. So what's next? Well, find out more at life reimagined.org slash happy. And joining us once again is our co-founder, C.O. editorial director, Deborah Heiss. I just like saying that now.

We're just going through the entire thing. Mother, spouse, all these things. We're talking today

in this series about setting career goals. And the subject in the article was our good friend

Chris Libby, who's fantastic writer. He's done a lot of work, even for this podcast, helped us out with that immensely. What makes him the type of person that needs help with setting career goals? Well, you know, Chris has been with us from the beginning here at Live Happy. He's one of our fantastic editors. He manages the front end of the magazine, really the now section. He does a lot of contributing to other articles. He's written some of our features. But when he sits down and you sat down and you ask him, where do you want to go with your career? It's kind of a, well, I don't know. Where should I go? What should my goals being? I think you have a classic case of somebody who loves what they're doing right now, is really engaged in it, but hasn't really planned a future from it. So he, you know, goal setting, if you're going to do a piece on creating 90 days to a happier you piece, a lot of people are going to be struggling with what they want to do with their careers. What do they want to do long-term goal-wise? And he really stepped up and said, you know what, I think I could benefit from this. So

that's really what it was about. And, you know, not only, you know, focused on being present,

but focusing on where you want to go is something he felt he could really work on. And visualizing

in those sorts of things. People talk about, like half your motivational speakers are talking

about those sorts of things. So I think this could be very helpful.

It's an interesting conversation.

Live Happy Science Editor Paula Phelps is talking with Caroline Miller, who's been a pioneer

with her groundbreaking work in the areas of goal setting and accomplishment and grit and

happiness and success.

And she's recognized as one of the world's leading positive psychology experts on this

research and how it can be applied to your life for maximum transformation and growth.

Okay, I think the big question that we all want to know is, first of all, how did you develop

such an interesting goal setting and how did you get so good at it?

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