Happier with Hazel - Is striving to be happy what we should be doing or is it making us more unhappy?

Is striving to be happy what we should be doing or is it making us more unhappy?

10/06/19 • 18 min

If I asked you if you’re happy, what would you say? Yes, no, sometimes, never, always?
When people are asked what they want for their children, their family, their friends it’s usually ‘I just want them to be happy’.
But what is happiness and should we be spending so much money, time and energy in order to pursue it? Why are some people happier than others, no matter what life throws at them? In this episode I'll talk about why we’re all under so much pressure to be happy, that we shouldn’t even be happy all the time and how struggling to reach happiness is doing the opposite - and making us all anxious, stressed and unhappy. But it’s not all gloom and doom – listen in to learn how you can be happier.

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Are You Burned Out? 10 Ways To Tackle It And Feel Better

If you feel stressed, anxious, exhausted, starting to hate your job, and beginning to feel less capable at work, you are showing signs of burnout. But what causes it and what can you do about it? Listen to this week’s episode when I’ll be discussing burn out and 10 practical tips to tackle it.

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How to be happier, more of the time.

Being happy is good for us and good for society. Happy people generate feelings of acceptance, appreciation, openness, gratitude, and trust and less hostility, defensiveness, resentment and judgement.

We have a set point for happiness, our Happiness Quotient that we return to after good or bad things happen to us. Some have a lower HQ because of genetics or environment. But you can cultivate a higher HQ and that’s what I’m going to talk about for the next two shows because there are so many ways you can learn how to raise your HQ and experience greater happiness, less stress and less anxiety.