Hey, everybody. Today we're bringing you something a little different. It's a preview from one of my personal favorite podcasts.

The Happiness Lab hosted by Yale professor and human cognition expert, Dr. Laurie Santos. She's been on this show before. I have to say there are a lot of people in the wellness slash happiness world who I don't exactly trust, but Laurie is on the far end of the trustworthiness.

And intelligence spectrum. She really is quite incredible and I highly recommend both her and her show on past episodes of this show. She's come on to talk about how to hit the reset button at work.

Why we need to double down on self care and why self compassion is the best fuel for habit change will put some links in the show notes to her previous appearances on this show.

Over on her show the happiness lab, Laurie explores all the ways we get happiness wrong and what we can do to really feel better she walks listeners through the latest evidence based strategies for improving your mental health sharing practical advice on what will really make you happier in her latest new years season of the happiness lab, Laurie tackles how to listen to the inner voice of what we really need in the new year.

And in the episode you're about to hear she chats with somebody who I really love and admire, although I haven't met him yet, just a huge fan Tony Hale from such amazing shows as arrested development and deep.

She talks to Tony about how we can stay grounded and present and sane in the face of all of the many new years goals we may be setting for ourselves.

As we start the new year, we tend to get focused on changing things were on to the next diet or the next workout or the next step in career development.

We can get super caught up in thinking about how great things will be in the future that it may be impossible to hear the soft voice of intuition telling us that what we need actually is right here right now.

Tony is no stranger to problems that come with spending too much time thinking ahead he shares how this type of thinking plagued him earlier in his acting career.

And the concrete steps he's taken to find ways to stay present and listen to the inner voice telling him what he actually needs right now.

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did if you do you can find more of the happiness lab wherever you listen to your podcast and like I say huge admirer of Laurie Santos.

So I give her and her show an unreserved endorsement.

Pushkin.

When we enter a new year many of us start to feel inspired about making big changes in our lives.

That new day on the calendar can motivate us to improve our careers our health our habits and our happiness. But when we start to think about how to go about making all these improvements.

That's when things start to get really really loud.

We start to hear all these outside cultural voices shouting at us about what we should be doing that number that we're really supposed to have on the scale or the glossy gym we absolutely need to join or the new productivity or dating app that all our friends are trying.

These outside voices tell us there's one way to get fit or quit biting our nails or get that big promotion at work.

It's a new year they scream and this is how things are going to have to change.

These new year voices are all very well intentioned but they can sometimes get so loud that we can't even hear ourselves.

So in this new year season of the happiness lab I want us to try something different instead of listening to all these loud outside voices we're going to do the harder work of looking in order.

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