Surprising Mood Booster | Motivation
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Dr. Adi and Sophie Jaffe
4.4 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
This week, Dr. Jaffe explains a surprising way to boost your mood and its simpler than you think. This easy hack will not only elevate your mood, but also increase your overall contribution and purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | If you feel like you are not contributing to the wellness and the well-being and to the life of those around you, it is making you personally suffer. |
| 0:09.7 | Happy Monday, everyone. It's Sophie. |
| 0:12.0 | And Adi. |
| 0:13.0 | We're always looking for new ways to support you and we know firsthand how life can get in the way. |
| 0:18.4 | So we've created five-minute episodes with motivation from us and our |
| 0:22.2 | great friends to keep you feeling ignited and inspired no matter what life throws at you. Welcome to the |
| 0:28.0 | Ignited Motivation podcast, mini episodes every Monday. Listen while you brush your teeth or on your |
| 0:34.7 | morning walk. And you'll never miss out on the latest tips and tricks that are |
| 0:38.2 | keeping us feeling motivated hello everybody hope you're having a good Monday what I wanted to talk |
| 0:45.9 | about here today is one of the ways that I found which was best to deal with those days when |
| 0:50.6 | you're feeling a little sad a little depressed a, a lot of sorts, maybe a little anxious. |
| 0:56.5 | And that is to give to others. I found this to be one of the most effective tools oftentimes |
| 1:04.0 | to let go of some of our own internal struggles and get connected in a very quick, present way |
| 1:09.1 | to the needs and realities of other people. |
| 1:14.2 | I want to tell a few stories about how I started playing this out. |
| 1:17.2 | And now with the kids every once in a while, one of our favorite things to do is to go to an |
| 1:21.2 | in-and-out drive-through. |
| 1:22.8 | And inevitably, there would be somebody, a homeless person or somebody who's asking for money on the way out. And this happens in a lot of drive-through. So I don't know why it started for me in this in-and-out drive-thru, specifically in Culver City. But the same guy was standing there for a while. And initially, as a habit, it started giving him a dollar. And then I would have the kids give him the dollar. And then eventually asked him if you wanted food. And then I would go order the food. And then I would walk in and always when ordering food, drive-thru or otherwise, I would order a burger for him. And eventually the habit in our family became such that when I go to buy food, that's specific in and out for sure, |
| 2:01.3 | or any other ones now when I see somebody standing there. But this one, I always know there's |
| 2:04.6 | somebody standing outside. I just add an entire meal to what we're ordering for the family. |
| 2:09.7 | And then I have one of the kids walk it out to them if we're sitting and eating in or hand it out |
| 2:15.7 | from the car. What I realize is not only myself, but also the kids like going to that in and out, |
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