Get thee to the local newsstand or the local bookstore or the Google or Apple store.

The new edition of Live Happy magazine is out, and we're going to talk about it on 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 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 and greetings. Once again, welcome to this edition of the Live Happy Now podcast. I'm your host, J.R. Houston. We're going to be joined by Paula Phelps here in just a minute. We're going to talk about the magazine coming up in a bit, but this is the month of March, which means the International Day of Happiness is coming up, which means that we are in the middle of our Happy Acts campaign. We're trying to make the world a happier place,

and the hashtag Happy Acts campaign, it's our Live Happy's annual campaign, sharing small acts of

kindness to help create a happier world. And you can get

involved by going to happyax.org or you can text happy acts, that's all one word, to 82257. And

the idea is that there's going to be all these little ways that you can share happiness around

the world, around your community, in your family.

I mean, there's all kinds of ideas big and small, and we would like for you to participate.

You can take photos and tag them on social media, and then hopefully it grows.

And more people see this and more people do this.

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