Welcome to episode 306 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and you've heard us talking about celebrating happiness all throughout the month of March.

Today marks the end of our month-long Happy Acts initiative, but that doesn't mean you have to stop being happy or practicing happy acts.

This week, I'm joined by Live Happy CEO and co-founder

Deborah Heise, who's talking to me about how we celebrated this special month and what we've

learned. Hey, Deborah, welcome back to Live Happy Now. Thank you, Paula. Always a pleasure,

and it's especially wonderful to be here at this time right at the end of March,

which is, of course, the month that we celebrate Happy Acts. Yeah, we are wrapping that up today

as a matter of fact. And so I wanted to have you back and talk about the happiness month and

some of the things that we did. And this one was different for us because we had to

approach it differently. And that one of the things that you and the team came up with was the

gratitude challenge. Can you talk about how that went and how it's still going on? Yeah, it's been

fantastic to log on to Facebook or Instagram or you just get on social media and see how many people are

participating in the gratitude challenge. It's not something I do every day. I'm not a social media

hound. I don't, you know, I know a lot of people spend hours and hours and hours on social

media, but I haven't been spending a lot more time on it this month just because I am so encouraged by the number of people who've chosen to be grateful, share their gratitude, invite other people to share their gratitude.

I mean, there's thousands and thousands and thousands of posts out on the Happy Acts wall that you can see that people sharing gratitude are doing Happy Acts.

I'm excited about it. And I'm excited about it not just from what's already happened, but from the fact that this is something that doesn't have to stop just because it's the end of March. I mean, you don't have to stop being grateful. I mean, I can't be happy anymore. Exactly, exactly. I did my 10, which is what we're asking everybody to do. But then, you know, I found

myself over the next couple of days finding things to be grateful for and posting those as well.

I quit numbering them, but, you know, still continuing to just share gratitude and invite

other people to share it as well is something that we can do all year round. There's no reason to stop it

now for those people who have

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