June 26, 2025

#319 7-Strategies for Finding Daily Happiness and Meaning in Family Life

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Many parents feel like they’re just going through the motions—even when life looks “good” on paper. In this episode, we share real-life strategies for finding happiness in the middle of daily stress, chores, and emotional exhaustion. You’ll learn how to reconnect with your purpose, build joy into your routine, and use simple habits to shift your mood and energy—so you can feel better, love deeper, and parent with greater peace.

Do you ever wonder why you're not happy, even when life looks good on the outside?

You’re raising kids, checking off your to-do list, maybe even living in your dream house—but something still feels… off. Like you’re just going through the motions. If that’s you, this episode is exactly what you need.

In this honest and actionable conversation, we share 7 specific strategies we use as a couple and family to intentionally practice happiness—no matter how hard, stressful, or chaotic life gets.

These aren’t fluffy mindset hacks. These are real-life tools we use daily to overcome burnout, shift our emotional state, and reconnect with purpose.

We cover how to:

Use mundane tasks like washing dishes as emotional recovery
Connect daily habits to your long-term goals for deeper meaning
Recognize signs you're emotionally depleted—and what to do next
Build “micro-doses” of joy and excitement into your calendar
Use movement and analog tasks to boost your mood naturally
Align your marriage so you're not living as "roommates"
Create a happiness practice your kids can learn from

If you’re tired of surviving and ready to start thriving, these tools will help you find happiness again—on purpose.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

✅ Happiness must be practiced—especially when you’re busy

✅ Daily chores can become recovery if used intentionally

✅ Vision gives meaning to the mundane—reconnect with yours

✅ Micro + macro doses of joy help you avoid burnout

✅ Marriage connection fuels personal happiness

✅ What you model emotionally, your kids will repeat

Chapters:

00:00 The Hidden Reason You're Not Happy

03:51 Reconnecting Tasks to a Long-Term Vision

06:54 Finding Awe in Nature

08:58 Micro & Macro Doses of Joy

12:09 Feeling Off? Here's Your Warning Sign

14:37 Analog Tasks to Reset Your Brain

17:22 Strategic Happiness: It’s Not Automatic

19:41 Fix the Marriage First—Then the Mood

22:19 Why We Prioritize Play (Yes, Even Now)

24:31 The #1 Emotional Habit to Model for Your Kids

MEMORABLE QUOTES

🗣️ “If your to-do list isn’t connected to a bigger vision, it’s meaningless.”

🗣️ “Stop grinding. Start being strategic about your energy.”

🗣️ “Happiness is not a reward, it’s a practice—especially as a parent.”

🗣️ “Sometimes doing the dishes is the best therapy.”

🗣️ “Our children learn how to be happy by watching us practice it.”

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0:00

Gratitude is a practice.

You're not going to be happy unless you practice happiness.

Nature just blows everything else out of the water.

The life of your dreams isn't just Instagram perfect, it's filled with work and.

We have a moral obligation to practice happiness.

0:15

There definitely is a place for examining your life choices.

I ask, do I love my life?

Am I living a life I love?

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Extraordinary Family Life podcast.

We are your host, Greg and Rachel Denning.

We are going to talk about happiness, joy, meaning, and most importantly, getting out of blah, getting out of a humdrum existence, the state of merely existing.

0:44

I'm sure you've experienced it and felt it maybe too much and it's just felt like you're flatlining.

It's not exciting, it's not thrilling.

It's just this occasional that was nice instead of most of the time, like being excited about your life.

1:07

So when you wake up in the morning, you're like, yes, another day of life.

With that, because I think a lot of times people get the wrong idea about what that's supposed to look like when you say something like that.

They imagine you jumping out of bed.

1:25

Like we're so excited and filled with enthusiasm, which happens sometimes.

But even for you, Greg Denning, you don't jump out of bed every single day like that.

And so I, and ultimately, I think that's kind of the point of this discussion is saying even for us, who, you know, we are living intentionally and, and have an extraordinary family life, We're not jumping out of bed and with enthusiasm.

1:52

Some days we wake up just like you wake up tired, exhausted, overwhelmed, dreading the day perhaps.

But we use intentional strategies to help us be able to get into these states that we're talking about where we can find meaning and joy and purpose and happiness in the day that we have, regardless of what it looks like.

2:16

There is a key part of that where you can begin to create and design A life that has more days that are exciting and meaningful.

But even when you do that, and I like to remind people all the time, your dream life is filled with work.

The life of your dreams isn't just Instagram perfect.

2:36

It's filled with work.

And so there's often things you don't want to do, but you need to do.

And sometimes it can still feel like a humdrum, you know, existence unless you're intentional, intentional about finding the meaning in those things.

And so that's.

2:51

Well, and learning to love the work.

I I love how you're saying.

That.

If a really meaningful, awesome life requires a lot of work, then man, let's learn how to love the work.

Let's do work that we love and learn how to love the work.

But there's, there's maybe the 1st action item right there, if you can choose to do work that you love, if there's just work, that's just work.

3:15

Like I'm taking care of the kids like sleepless nights and diapers and messes and squabbles and, and you know, drives or flights with little ones or like whatever it is, it's, it's lots of laundry.

3:31

It's lots of dishes, so learn to make that fun.

I think some too often we just think, I just have to do it.

And so I'll just get through it.

And then we find ourselves and I've done this too, and you've done it.

3:48

And, and I, I talked to people today, I had a few conversations.

People are doing this like, I'm just, I'm just checking the boxes.

I'm, I'm doing what needs to be done.

And, and they said, I find myself just kind of wishing the day would be over like this, anticipating the day to be over.

The problem is, if that becomes the norm, then eventually you find yourself every day waiting for it to be over and then realizing, oh wait, I'm just going to do it again tomorrow.

4:14

And so slowly you begin to resent your life and you create a life that you don't love.

I've had jobs that I hated.

We've lived in locations that I did not love.

Now I learned to make the most of it.

4:31

I'm still joyful and positive.

You probably wouldn't even know that.

I'm just don't like living in certain places because I'm, I'm because what we're going to talk about, I get into my routines, my rituals, my habits, my patterns and I'm like, I'm going to be good.

4:46

But we've been there where I'm just like, I don't like my circumstances.

Well, and I think that that's an important point to let's talk about it for a second, because if you're going to go through this process of finding more joy and meaning in your life, there definitely is a place for examining, for lack of better phrase, your life choices, right?

5:08

And and sometimes that is the solution.

If you hate your job, I would be looking for a different job or career if you don't like where you live.

Exactly.

If you don't like where you live, move.

And, and I've heard people say over the years, like, you know, grow where you're planted, But I've learned from experience that where you live does matter.

5:30

Like sometimes those things, those drastic solutions are the solution.

So it's definitely something you want to consider, you want to look into.

But then there's the other side of the equation where and I, you know, I've talked to people, they're like, no, actually I am dream living my dream life like this is what I dreamed of.

5:50

I'm in the place I want to be.

I'm in the home, I want to be, I have the family I want, but I still feel some of this mundane blah.

And then that's when we're going to implement some of these other strategies that we're going to talk about like, OK, in those cases, what do you do about that?

6:07

And, and it's important to emphasize that that's normal.

That's just a part of life, even a dream life, like a dream life is not all rainbows and unicorns and perfection every single day.

I think that that's what people don't realize.

They, they imagine that that exists without any challenges, without any obstacles, without any hard work, without any disappointments, that if you create your dream life, you're not going to have any disappointments anymore.

6:35

You're not going to have any obstacles to overcome.

And that's just not true before.

We get to strategies.

I just want to ask a couple questions.

Like for me I asked do I love my life?

Am I living a life I love?

And that's kind of the first part.

If you were to ask a majority of people, I would say it's like, hey, are you living a life that you love?

6:54

And they'll say, man, obviously I haven't been thinking about that enough.

I haven't gotten clarity.

They lack clarity on on what a life they love would look like there.

And if you realize, well, I love, love, love water or mountains or beaches or cities or countryside and you're not there, that's the first place to start.

7:13

And and you realize what, what am I doing?

I'm not creating the life I love.

So that's the first question.

Are you creating a life you love?

The second part is, and this goes both ways.

So you might be just unhappy in a life you don't love, but you might still be unhappy in a life you could love or do love.

And then that's the next piece.

7:29

I was thinking about this today.

I want to use the word practicing.

Are you practicing happiness?

Are you do you wake up each day and put into practice inside and out, meaning in your head and your heart and then outside in your life?

Are you are you practicing happiness?

7:47

And that's, that's a, that's sobering reminder for all of us.

Am I sincerely and genuinely happy?

It makes me think of the whole idea of love being a verb.

You know and people talk about if if you want to be happily married, you have to, in essence, practice love.

8:05

You have to turn love into an action word and something that you do not something that you just feel or receive.

And I think that what how you're explaining here is a perfect example or comparison for that.

You're not going to be happy unless you practice happiness.

There is no way to happiness.

8:21

Happiness is the way like you get to happiness by practicing happiness by being happy.

And so yeah, that's, that's exactly how it needs to that that's the framework you need to approach it with.

You will be happy as you practice happiness.

8:37

Another favorite quote of mine.

It's not happiness that makes us grateful, but it's gratefulness that makes us happy.

And so that's part of, to me, that's part of the practice of happiness is by cultivating gratitude so that I can feel more happiness.

8:54

I can feel more of those positive emotions because I'm focusing on the things I'm grateful for as opposed to the things that I don't like or that are going wrong or the, you know, this or that or the other.

A perfect example recently and again that this is how I think it plays out in the day today.

9:13

It plays out in the the little things that happened to us and how we choose to interpret them.

We have our property in Portugal and we have a bunch of animals that we've gotten.

We've only lived there for what, 3 months now maybe?

Less.

9:29

While I have been gone in the States, one of our pigs, the younger one died.

And I was just so saddened by that.

I realized that sincerely being grateful that my pig died because that's my trial, right?

9:45

Like, oh, this is my trial.

This is my challenge.

This is my obstacle.

My pig died for me.

Being grateful for that helps me to put it in perspective.

Like literally, I am grateful when my pig died and it wasn't my child and it wasn't my spouse and it wasn't some other horrible thing.

10:03

And that might seem extreme to some people to have that sort of comparison, but that works for me as far as practicing happiness, practicing gratitude, practicing finding meaning in these things is it's a chance for me to reflect on the blessings I do have and all of the things that are going great in my life.

10:22

And if I had to choose 100%, I would choose that, no doubt.

There is no doubt in my mind that I would choose my pig dying, even though it made me sad at the time.

And it's OK to feel the sadness and all of that and to not discount it.

But for me to then be able to compare it to the other things that could happen, Yeah, all day long I will accept and be grateful for those trials.

10:46

Quote UN quote, right.

I've, I've been doing that for a long time and I think I think you're right.

I bring that UPS like that's one of the practices.

It's just a mental practice I do to help keep things in perspective.

When, yeah, when there's a loss, you realize, yeah, but we got to have that experience.

11:07

That too.

Right.

Something goes wrong, obviously, you know, usually catches you off guard.

It's unexpected and there's a disappointed frustration and we can let it just just wreck us And, and sometimes that's enough to wreck people for good.

11:23

But it's important to to have the the perspective and to feel the gratitude.

Mm hmm.

I love that.

I think gratitude is a is a practice as well.

It's something you practice.

It's not like why I just don't feel it.

I just don't have it.

11:38

I mean, you practice it, practice it.

That's a big one.

I I would say finding joy and awe in simple things.

In fact, I.

Want another strategy?

11:53

Yeah, it's another strategy because it's related to the gratitude.

And I just got me thinking, I'm like to walk out in the morning and watch the sunrise or to watch the sunset in the evening.

It's pretty awesome.

I just stand there, take some deep breaths, feel the sunlight on your skin, just watch the colours in the sky to as cliche as it is to stop and look at and smell the roses and the honey bees.

12:23

Which when you actually have roses growing, which we do in Portugal, it is, it's so, it's so pleasurable to do that because they are filled with so much fragrance and you're like, Oh my gosh, this is an actual amazing experience.

And, and they're, they're awe inspiring when you look at the detail of a flower, this is almost there's, there's an actual thing on awe, on practicing awe.

12:49

And they found in all the studies that it works best.

Like the, the results are far more impactful when it's in nature.

They try to do it with like man made stuff, but nature just blows everything else out of the water.

And as author I'm listening to, he said that he, he's, he practices time in nature and he's, he doesn't allow himself to like listen to podcast or audiobooks.

13:11

He he sets aside time in nature to not do that.

And I would say the same with music.

So those you know, the music is powerful and wonderful, but we've got to have time without music, without input.

If you have time every day in nature, just even a little bit, just you and nature practicing awe and that has such a grounding and healing and settling impact.

13:38

And, and we often feel that, and I'm speaking from experience me that, oh, we're too busy to do these things and yet then we don't do them and wonder why we don't feel meaning or happiness in our lives.

13:55

Because it's actually those very small things throughout the day that are the things that bring the meaning and joy and fulfillment into our lives.

And so we have to create this framework of understanding that, no, I need to do those things if I want to be fulfilled with my life.

14:12

I need to make sure I'm making time for those sites sorts of things because those are what will bring the meaning of fulfillment, especially when you do go through the process of creating the life that you want.

Say you want to move to the beach town, or you want to move to the ski town, or you want to move somewhere where you get to be closer to the things that bring you joy.

14:33

If you move there and you get back into the ruts and you don't do it, then you're missing the whole point of the whole dream that you pursued, right?

Like you have to actually do the thing that you were pursuing in order to then find the meaning fulfillment that you anticipated it would bring you.

14:50

Exactly.

It's such a great point.

So one of the things I also do that works great for me is finding a way to mentally connect the things I'm doing on a daily basis to a larger vision or picture of what I'm pursuing.

15:11

If I just, if I'm just checking out the boxes, it's like To Do List To Do List To Do List, right?

It can become so mundane and purposeless.

But if I take a moment dearly every day, but at least every week, if I can take a moment to pause and be like, OK, wait a second, why am I doing these things?

15:29

Why am I checking these boxes?

Like, why have why did I decide I need to do this every day And usually not always.

People definitely just go through the motions of doing it.

Ideally, you, you would take some time to identify your goals and, and dreams, which we actually have a whole extraordinary life planner to help people do that.

15:50

That helps them outline this entire process of creating the right kind of To Do List or then the things you're working on are connected to the goals and dreams you're trying to accomplish.

But if you haven't done that process, or even if you have, you can still get back into the rut of, oh, I'm just checking things off rather than remembering that, no, I want to do this because it's going to help me have a better relationship with my kids.

16:14

I want to do this with my spouse because it's going to help me have that that ideal relationship with my spouse.

I want to work on this project because it's going to help me have long term wealth for my family.

I want to.

And so you're literally connecting everything you're doing on a daily basis with the long term objective that you're trying to achieve.

16:34

And it's I, I find for me, if I'm not doing that, if it and if the things I'm doing are not connected to something like that, they literally become meaningless to me.

And I'm like what is the point?

Why am I doing this if it is not helping me to achieve some other long term goal?

16:52

Right.

That is so awesome.

It's so insightful because our actions if if they're not connected to something that actually matters, they just become empty actions.

And if that feels.

17:10

I feel like ultimately humans are very driven by achievement in that they need to have purpose to the actions they're taking, or else they just don't want to take the actions.

And so, yeah, because it becomes meaningless.

17:25

So we're very driven by finding meaning.

And so when you can learn to connect the meaning, and that can be anything, like I can connect meaning to doing the dishes or loading the dishwasher or doing the chores or whatever it is, it doesn't matter what it is.

17:41

I can find meaning in that because I've learned to connect it to a bigger vision of what I'm trying to create.

And do you find that you have to remind yourself of the connection?

When I am in a lower emotional state, maybe I'm in frustration or irritation or resentment or anger.

18:01

I definitely do have to remind myself.

But if I am, I'm in a higher level emotion.

If I'm already in gratitude or I'm already in productivity even, or I whatever, I find that it's it becomes more natural where I just.

18:16

I want to do that.

The dishes.

Yeah, I want to do the dishes.

Especially when I learned to use it as a tool for we've talked a lot about stress and recovery, like when you're working and doing your things and you know you're, you're trying to check off all the things, that's a form of stress, mental, emotional, physical stress.

18:36

And then you need recovery to make up for that.

And I've learned to use certain things like that as a form of recovery for me.

Also for me, I also think of it as focus thinking versus diffuse thinking.

Like if I'm spending a lot of focus thinking on the computer working to me, then the perfect activity is to go do something like washing the dishes where I'm just got this very loose diffuse thinking that's kind of all over the place.

19:03

And it's like a rest for my brain to help it recover.

Most of us are not strategic enough about that, especially in life, right?

We have this list of tasks and we go from one task to the next task to the next task and we just wear ourselves out and we're just grinding and just frustrated and hurt where what you're describing there.

19:20

And we do this so often.

You and I do it so, so often.

And it's so helpful to we go from one task to another and we're, we're checking off all our tasks.

We're doing the things that need to be done, but the one task is acting like a break from the other.

We're still non.

19:37

Productive, but the one helps the other.

I actually do that in the gym.

So I'm going in for like, you know, a full body workout, so to speak, or, or muscle groups.

So while one muscle group is resting, I do a different exercise that has nothing to do with that muscle group.

19:54

So let's say for example, I'm working out my arms and so I'm doing, I'm doing curls and a burning and then then my arms need a rest.

So I can I can totally go over and do ABS.

Right.

So while I'm I'm doing crunches, my arms are resting, I want to optimize.

20:12

And so I'm still working out, still progressing, still moving through my workout while resting.

And the same thing whether you're saying I go from this task to this task, but we strategically use them as stress recovery, stress recovery, stress recovery.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

20:29

And I think that is something we have both gotten really good at doing, which helps us to be far more productive over time.

It's not wasted time.

It's it's still being used, but it's in the form of an activity that is recovering us from the previous activity we're doing.

20:45

We have to be more strategic about how we stress and recover.

And that right there is a tool that I think helps you feel more meaning and fulfillment.

And I know for me, one of the signs I've learned to pay attention to is that if I'm working on something, no matter what it is, if say, I'm working on the computer doing something and I start to feel irritated and annoyed and frustrated and tired, that to me is a sign that I've been working on it too long.

21:15

And so then I'm like, OK, I'm going to take a break.

I'm going to go do something else.

And for me, that's usually, it's usually something physical, like I've been sitting looking at a computer.

Now I'm going to go do something that is physical, off screen analog, right?

21:33

And that could be whatever it could be feeding the animals or washing the dishes or taking a walk.

It could be anything that's not on the computer.

And then I'm able to come back, I feel better.

I'm my brain is clear and focused.

And then I can get the progress I need on that task because I'm not just grind, grind, grind, focus, focus, focus on the one thing it's, it's such a powerful tool and it helps you overall to feel better.

22:01

And when you feel better, you feel happier about your life.

It really is that simple.

So you really just have to be more strategic about doing the things that help you feel better throughout the day.

And then when you feel better, you feel you feel more content with life, and so you're literally practicing happiness.

I got to share one that is just keeps coming to my mind as as we're sitting here talking.

22:22

For me personally, I have to have something to be excited about.

I got to have something either on my calendar or in my head to be excited about.

Besides connecting the daily task to some sort of long term outcome like, oh, I'm doing this to have a better marriage, you also want to have something on your calendar that is like, and we're going to take a trip together for our anniversary or whatever like that.

22:52

Yeah, and and some so like a trip for our anniversary or a family trip somewhere cool or a big race I've signed up for.

Those are what I refer to as like macro dosing.

It's something big I'm planning for.

Maybe there's a cost, there's some preparation.

23:08

It's like, OK, there's this big thing I'm looking forward to.

So I got to have macro dosing excitement in my calendar.

So in the next few months, like what can I look forward to?

What can I get up and be like we're going there is going to be awesome.

And then I need micro dosing for me.

23:24

I need small things to be excited about and it's it's play.

Humans need play.

We so, so desperately need play and and it's looking forward to those things gives you it it it's almost like this magnetic force.

23:39

This is pulling you forward into life and you get up and your, your mind is just drawn to it because you're excited about it.

I heard somebody say one time it's adult ADD adventure deficit disorder, right?

I, I've got to have adventures.

I got to have excitement, I got to have some play.

23:56

And when I do, man, I love it.

I feel different.

I feel better, I feel more alive and I can tell when I've not had enough play or I can tell in myself and in my coaching clients.

24:11

I can tell right away.

I'm like, like especially if they, they come with certain symptoms.

I'm like, I, I know right away.

I know what the problem is.

There's nothing he's looking forward to.

There's nothing on the calendar.

There's nothing out that's exciting.

It's just blah.

I'm just just, I'm just grinding.

24:27

I'm just checking the box.

I don't even know why.

And and that could be like you, you could be crushing in business making tons of money and he's like, I am just empty.

And one of the major reasons is you don't have something exciting to look forward to.

Yeah, and it's connected to that idea.

24:44

If you strategically create your dream life, you go live by the beach or the mountains, but then you don't actually go out and do the things that make it exciting and meaningful, then you still just have the same feelings of blah.

It doesn't matter where you are or what you've done.

You have to regularly be participating in and doing those things that make you feel this way in order for you to have meaning in your life.

25:11

Because without it, you do you're, you're literally just existing.

You're just going through the motions.

It doesn't matter how much money you make or what kind of house you live in or how great your life is on the outside.

You have to be able to find play and excitement and fun and meaning in the things that you do, and you have to strategically and intentionally do those things.

25:32

One more thing that I'm thinking of that's so, so relevant right now that I can feel in a very palpable way is I feel your absence.

And it affects all kinds of thinking and feeling in interesting ways, like things I don't normally think about when we're together and things are good.

25:57

There's, there's like, it's just like this how things are with you being gone.

Like it's, it's like there's mental, emotional obstacles that aren't there otherwise, you know what I'm saying?

It's even hard to articulate, but I feel your absence.

And I, I want to share that principle because it might not be that couples are physically apart, but they're emotionally or mentally or spiritually or physically separated.

26:24

IF2 if a man and a wife are, are behaving like roommates, they're going to feel the same emptiness that I'm feeling with you being physically gone.

If the marriage is off and they're fighting or they're frustrated or they're just roommates, like no wonder.

26:41

Life feels like a drag.

Yeah, we need that closeness, that bond, the love.

Like Rachel and I are just best friends and and we just have a phenomenal marriage and it makes it so much easier to be happy and joyful and fulfilled even when we're facing challenges and obstacles.

27:01

Yeah, perhaps.

Especially when.

I think that that is a very, very important point.

I think often when you and I are talking and sharing things, we sometimes forget that everything we're sharing is built upon certain foundations that it's almost like have become automatic things we almost don't even think about anymore.

27:23

But for us, it's just like, no, that's there, that's in place, and that is then this firm foundation for everything else to build on.

And so I think that's one of the things that when you get, when you have solid relationships in your life, it's just a foundational piece to everything else you're doing.

27:43

And so it's that's why we emphasize them so much.

That's why we talk about it so much.

That's why we teach the things we do and the 28 day challenge and everything else we're doing because getting those relationships right is going to be the greatest source of happiness and fulfillment and purpose that you can ever find.

28:02

And having those relationships off, and this includes with your children too, but definitely with your spouse, having those relationships off is going to be an ongoing source of contention and irritation and frustration and and brings this sense of purposelessness because ultimately that's what it's about.

28:20

Like we exist in order to have relationships.

And when we have good relationships, life is good.

And when we don't have good relationships, yeah, life sucks.

So we need to realize that's the most important work we could be focusing on more than our careers, more than making money.

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Those things are important.

But one thing we have done really well is we have put almost all of our time, energy and attention into creating great relationships, a great marriage and then great relationships with our kids.

And that's been a foundational aspect of everything we now teach and do and and can accomplish because of that firm foundation.

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And it makes it so much easier and so much.

Yeah, it does.

It, it does.

It simply does.

It just makes it so much easier for us to then still use the tactics we've described it.

It's not a, it's not something that makes all of our problems go away.

It doesn't.

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Hopefully this is helpful for somebody out there that if the relationship's off, it is worth every bit of effort to bring back the spark and the magic.

Into there.

Love it.

So, ladies and gentlemen, here's to your happiness.

Your practice of happiness.

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And it is practice there.

It is exactly.

It's a choice and a practice.

So today just say, you know, I choose to be happy and I'm going to practice being happy today.

And when you find yourself slipping into old habits, thinking patterns, emotional habits, whatever, just like, no, no, no, I'm practicing happiness.

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I'm choosing to be joyful and choosing to enjoy little things and, and making the adjustments.

If you, if you know right now, if you've been listening, you know right now there's something in your life that is annoying you or bothering you.

You just don't like it, man.

Get crazy strategic, take massive action, do whatever you can to create and live a life that you love and and do the inner work because it's an inside job.

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Do the inner work to be truly happy.

So love you guys, be happy, get out.

You know what?

And OK, hit for for those of you, your parents who are listening, I feel like we have a moral obligation to practice happiness so that we can teach our children how to do it and give them so much of an advantage.