We think around 60,000 to 70,000 thoughts a day.

But why is it that the negative ones are often the loudest?

We'll figure out how to challenge our negative thinking on this episode of Live Happy Now.

The ancient Greeks defined happiness as the joy you feel moving towards your potential.

To think about positive psychology, it's a science, and it's actually younger than the

internet, believe it or not.

The reality is that social connection is in the research, the greatest predictor we have

of long-term happiness.

You have some factors in your control.

They can promote the health and resilience and growth of your absolutely most important asset, which is your brain.

And so it all comes down to understanding ourselves.

There's a way for all of us to succeed, but it might take different things.

We're all looking for the same thing, and that's a way to bring a little bit more joy to our day.

Join us as we look at the many different paths that lead us to that happy place. This is Live Happy Now. Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Live Happy Now podcast. I'm your host, J.R. Houston. Please that you are tuning in once again wherever you are in the world, and however you may be listening. We're also very grateful that more of you are making Live Happy magazine a part of your routines,

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Kind of fun.

We are also encouraging you to stick around for this episode of the podcast as

Oran Hedrich, a certified life coach and mindfulness meditation teacher and author of

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