If you've been looking for a happy place you have founded, welcome to live happy now.

Podcasts dedicated to bringing you closer to your true happiness through powerful positive psychology, relatable insights, and maybe a little bit of fun as well.

I'm your host, J.R. Houston. We'll be joined in just a moment by editorial director and CEO

Deborah Heist, but we want to tell you about our partner in these podcasts. That is LifeReimagined

and their website, LifeReimagined.org. And it is chock full of resources for you and processes to go through

to help increase your level of happiness.

And, you know, they say as you awaken it to the power of happiness, so do your dreams.

So what's next?

Go to lifereimagined.org.

We are very excited once again to be joined by our editorial director and C.O.

As I mentioned, Deborah Heist is here because we've got a new issue of Live Happy Magazine, the October 2015 issue that is being launched as we record this podcast.

And my goodness, it's got Anthony Anderson on the cover, all kinds of great articles,

including one we're going to hear more about later on in this podcast, Deborah, from our own

Paula Phelps, who has a fantastic article about prioritizing positivity.

Yeah, it's an interesting take on the happiness, science of happiness or the science

of positive psychology in that many studies have come out recently that say maybe an overfocus

on being happy might have a negative impact or have a negative impact on your overall

happiness.

And so it's based on a study

that Barbara Fredrickson published recently that maybe not focusing on happiness as a goal,

but really prioritizing positivity and positive actions in your life might be the real solution

to finding happiness. The conversation that Paula has with Kim is really fascinating. She

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