There's a fine line between being digitally connected and being a screen zombie.

We talk with Janelle Burley Hoffman about how not to let our screens run our lives in 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 aspect. 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, once again, greetings, and welcome to the Live Happy Now podcast. I'm your host, J.R. Houston, thrilled that you are making us a part of your day, wherever you are in the world, and however, you may be listening. We're just glad to be here, and we're glad you're here with us.

We would also encourage you while you're making us a part of your day to make Live Happy magazine, a part of your regular reading. You can find it on newsstands everywhere, wherever five magazines are sold at least, and you can even find it digitally. If you're the e-reader type, you can put it on your devices, any kind of devices, really.

You know, you got your notepads, you got your phones, you can find them in the Google Play and the Apple Store.

It's available, therefore, you got all kinds of content, ways to help you put the power of positive psychology into practice.

And maybe also a lot of alliteration.

I don't know.

I don't control the writers.

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