Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast. If I have learned anything in my years of doing this job, it's that happiness is a practice. There's not a single circumstance or a place that you get to in your life that suddenly makes you lastingly happy. We're actually going to talk about an antidote to that specific thought later in this episode, if you've ever found yourself thinking, when I meet my partner, I'll be happier, when I have a house or this much money, I will be

happy. Over and over again, happiness experts come on the podcast and reiterate that our

happiness is the result of thousands of tiny conscious and unconscious choices that we make

daily. And I have experienced the power of that

in my own life. So today, I'm going to share some of the habits, some of the hacks that I feel

like make the biggest difference. These are all quick to do. They are all free. They all have

great science behind them. And they all work pretty much immediately, which is like the Liz Moody

Quadfecta. Is that a word? I don't know. But it's what we like here at the Liz Moody podcast.

We like actionable. We like accessible and we like effective. I also am really going to try to

highlight things that you haven't heard before because I for one am frankly sick of hearing the

same three or four pieces of advice over and over again. I also want to say that happiness does not come easily to me.

I can get to a place of feeling joy, of feeling contentment and peace, but it feels like it takes

a lot of work to get me there, which is something that I often feel a lot of frustration with if I am being

honest. I've always been jealous of people that happiness comes more easily to, people who

wake up and have a smile on their face and are like dressed by forest animals. But that is not

how my brain works. The silver lining of that is that it makes me an excellent person to test

all of these happiness hacks and report back on the ones that actually work. Because if they are

effective for me, with my base state leaning more toward depressive, there is a very good chance that

they will be effective for you as well. Okay, so let's jump right into it.

Hack one, savoring. I have come across different iterations of this at various points in my life.

There's actually a tip in my book, which is called A Hundred Ways to Change Your Life, if you are

unfamiliar, that's based on Dr. Rick Hanson's work around rewiring our brains to feel more joy

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