āØ Are you prioritising your happiness?
Declan Edwards, The Happiness Guy, is an Australian happiness researcher and coach who spends his days taking people from 0 to 10.
We’re more connected than ever on the surface, but we’re also feeling lonelier than ever. This conversation is all about how to use your time and money to live a more fulfilling life. Declan shares actionable strategies to have more meaningful days, how to make changes in your life, make trade-offs and use the PERMA model to improve your well-being.
ā Here are some of the topics we cover:
- What does it mean to be happy?
- How do we figure out our own definition of happiness?
- What actionable skills can we try to develop our own happiness?
- Seligmanās PERMA+ Model explained: a theory of wellbeing
- 5-steps to making meaningful changes in your life
- Challenge without meaning is suffering; challenge with meaning is growth
- How can we get better at celebrating milestones on the way to our goals and not postponing happiness and feelings of achievement until we reach the endpoint? Getting to love the process, not just the destination.
- How can we think about the trade-offs between things we might not like doing now but have long-term benefits (like exercise, eating well, studying, saving etc.) and the things that feel great right now but might not be as great if the compound over time (like watching the TV show, online shopping, Uber Eats etc.)?
- What are your favourite resources (books, podcasts, websites etc.) if someone wants to look at how they can sprinkle some more happiness into their days?
- Number #1 lesson Declan wants to leave listeners with today
