Welcome to episode 359 of Live Happy Now. There are many ways to practice happiness, but the key is to find what works for you and make a habit of it. I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week's guest is going to walk us through his new 30-day challenge that will help you develop your own happiness

habit. Jackson Curtis is founder of the Happiness Studies major at the University of Alabama,

which is designed to help students understand how to live happier lives.

Now, he's launching rewired, a 30-day happiness Habit Challenge beginning April 11th that will help participants develop three happiness-supporting habits over 30 days.

Let's hear what this program is all about and how it can literally change your mind about happiness.

Jackson, welcome back to Live Happy Now.

Thanks, Paul.

It's great to be back.

Well, you reached out about something new that you're doing, and it just sounded like something

that Live Happy needed to be a part of.

And before we get to that, what I'd really love to do is kind of refresh our audience's

memory and talk about your personal journey

on how you became a happiness expert. Yeah, sounds good. Well, one thing I often share with people

is I view myself more of a maybe a student of happiness that a happiness expert. It's not to say I don't

I like to say I think I know a thing

or two at this point after. Well, you are teaching it. Yeah, basically being a big time nerd on

this for the last two or three years. But it kind of started out in this idea of studying

happiness. I got a scholarship to study economics at the University of Alabama, finished that in two

years, and was kind of stuck, I think, as many college students have experienced in that place

of like, well, what should I do with my life? And that feeling never quite goes away. But

finally, I was just like, well, I love learning. I'm a big

time nerd, like I said. And it's like, well, what do I want to study? And one morning, I still

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