Happy Bit: How Having a Vivid Vision Increases Positivity in Relationships
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2017
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
In this Happy Bit: "It all started with my son plopping a steaming (and HUGE) bowl of yummy goodness in front of me. He had cooked sweet potatoes, spinach, mushrooms, onions, hot dogs and a metric ton of garlic in some sizzling coconut oil... and it was AMAZING."
Our massage table is covered - COVERED - in books from various podcast guests and things I ordered on Amazon months ago but failed to read. But since I disccovered audio books from Audible, things are so much better! I can "read" again. ;) Because I love them so much, I've teamed up with audible.com to offer you a free audio book. Grab yours at vibranthappybook.com. You'll also get a free thirty-day membership, too. Sweet!
Now on to our Happy Bit.

It all started with my son plopping a steaming (and HUGE) bowl of yummy goodness in front of me. He had cooked sweet potatoes, spinach, mushrooms, onions, hot dogs and a metric ton of garlic in some sizzling coconut oil... and it was AMAZING.
For a nearly 16-year-old, this boy has mad skillz!
But sadly I tend to get more caught up in the fact he didn't empty the trash or clean his room.
Always the LACK, the scarcity...
When we stop and focus on the good, everything feels to much better, from our emotions to the entire tone of the relationship.
One way to focus even more on the good is to create a vivid vision of the future - to take the good things now and play them out and see exactly what they might look like in the future.
For example, maybe my son will be an amazing chef, or a fantastic cook for his family... one good thing leads to another, and when we create a vivid mental picture of all the goodness that could happen in the future, we train our brains to keep going. It's fun!
Also, I share how you can get your hands on the Self Care Toolkit available at jenriday.com/selfcare.
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Make it a great week!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Jen here, and this is Happy Bit. This Happy Bit is brought to you by Audible, and I have a |
| 0:06.9 | unique link where you can get a free book from Audible at VibranthappyBook.com. These are audiobooks, |
| 0:14.0 | and I am starting to fall in love with audiobooks. I have a massage table in our bedroom, and it's |
| 0:19.0 | covered with books from podcast guests and from |
| 0:22.4 | Amazon things I've wanted to read and they're piling up. Go figure. Mom of Six can't read a book. |
| 0:28.5 | Audio books, however, are a game changer. I can listen to them while I drive, listen to them |
| 0:33.7 | while I'm cooking or doing some laundry or any old thing and I'm loving it. So you need to get |
| 0:38.9 | your free book using my special link at Vibrant Happybook.com. Well, I was just sitting and relaxing and |
| 0:47.1 | my son, who is nearly 16, came into the room with this piping hot bowl of food and he said, |
| 0:53.0 | hey, mom, you get the leftovers here you go and i'm talking |
| 0:55.3 | a huge bowl and that was his idea of leftovers it was filled with sweet potatoes spinach hot dogs |
| 1:02.5 | onions and tons and tons of garlic and he had cooked everything in coconut oil i ate it and it was |
| 1:08.5 | delicious and i thought you know what a nice gesture. He and I don't |
| 1:12.6 | always get along perfectly, but he made an effort. And then I realized, you know, I need to |
| 1:17.5 | concentrate more on these positive things. And that's my vibrant happy tip for you today. |
| 1:22.5 | See the good. We've all heard it before, but see the good. But not only see the good in the moment, |
| 1:28.6 | but create a vision in your mind of the good things that could happen in the future in any relationship and with |
| 1:33.9 | any person you know. See the good and imagine the good that could happen in the future. |
| 1:39.2 | I can see my son cooking for his family and being able to cook for himself in college and being |
| 1:44.0 | able to succeed |
| 1:44.7 | and be an independent person. And having that vision takes my focus away from the areas where he's |
| 1:50.5 | still lacking, like being unable to keep his room clean or empty the trash. And after a while, |
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