Welcome to episode 240 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us on this holiday episode.

With the new year just around the corner, you might already be thinking about that New Year's resolution or what you hope to accomplish in 2020.

Today's guest has a few ideas for you.

Deborah Heise is CEO and co-founder of Live Happy, and she also is the driving force

behind the creation of the Happy Acts movement.

This week, she's here to talk to us about how committing to Happy Acts can help us

create a Happy New Year.

Deb, it has been so long since we've had you on the show.

So this is our Christmas present, is being able to get to talk to you again for Live Happy Now.

Well, it's my Christmas present to me to be able to be on the show. I love doing the podcast.

It's always a great time. And you're doing such a fantastic job with it. I enjoy listening to it

on my drive to work. It's, uh, you know, it's my uplifting thing of the week. Hey, we have a new

podcast out, but I'm thrilled to be here. That's excellent. Well, of course, there was nobody else

that we could talk to who would handle this topic better because we want to talk about how we can

use Happy Acts to create a Happy New Year. I think we need

to start by having you tell us what Happy Acts are and how they came about. Well, first, I love that

we're doing this topic for a new year because I do think that everybody's always looking to do

something for the New Year and make it change. And there's a lot to be said for, you know, setting a looking to do something for the new year and make it change.

And there's a lot to be said for, you know, setting a date to start something.

But as you also know, by the second week of your change, many people have stopped doing it.

There's a lot of research on 21 days to make or break any habit.

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