Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by,

and what motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,

motivate and inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal

and professional goals.

Hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast and to the first episode of 2024.

Wow, it is the start of the year.

How many times have you said or heard or read the words,

Happy New Year in the last few days?

Well, this episode is going to be all about that,

all about happiness. I have been reading and researching and thinking a lot recently about happiness and so I thought that would be a great way to kickstart the year on the Power Hour podcast.

So when we typically think about the start of the year,

of course, it is a time when a lot of people are setting goals. I think there's kind of two camps

actually. There's people that kind of roll their eyes at the whole New Year's resolutions,

new year, new me, they're just like, forget it. But a lot of people do set goals at this time

of the year. And a lot of people are thinking about

just assessing and just looking ahead and thinking about making plans and prioritising different

things. And I think that often happiness is overlooked when we think about setting goals. We might

think about professional achievements, career, financial goals.

We might have a physical challenge or this might be the year that we're going to commit to

learning a new language or reading a new book every week or running a personal best. And that's

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