Happy For No Reason

I had the great pleasure of interviewing Marci Schimoff last Tuesday on Self-Acceptance and Self-Love. I hope you registered for the call to receive the audio. It was a fantastic interview. I'll give a quick re-cap of some of the insights shared.

• Our thoughts cause us suffering: how we perceive situations and how we react or respond to them. We have 60,000 thoughts a day and most tend to be re-runs.
• 2/3 of Americans suffer from low self-esteem- that's epidemic in one of the richest countries in the world.
• When children are around 5 years of age, their self esteem tends to be around the 80%; when they graduate from high school it averages around 5%.
• Our heart is actually the master or mistress: there are more communication pathways from the heart to the brain than vice versa. Listening to what your heart is guiding you to do will keep you in alignment with well being and life satisfaction.
• A great resource to stay tuned into you Heart Rhythm Coherence is heartmath.com
• Lead with the heart with gratitude,forgiveness and spreading loving kindness.
• Unconditionally Happy people navigate through life with a inner backdrop of peace and well being that has nothing to do with their circumstances. They handle them differently.
• Your happiness set point is comprised of 50% genetics,10% circumstance and 40% habits, thoughts and behavior. You can raise your happiness set point by changing your thoughts, habits and behaviors.

As you give yourself permission to accept yourself for your gifts and talents and start to love yourself, you are a living and loving example for others to do so. Get a happiness buddy to keep you in that wonderful space of positive thinking and managing situations with more grace and ease.

Check out Marci's book Happy For No Reason at http://www.happyfornoreason.com/

One of the tools Marci recommended to "try out" is EFT. So happens that will be the topic of the Dec. 16 bonus interview with Brad Yates, EFT guru.

Until the next post,

Colleen

Colleen Crook is a Life & Leadership coach and owner and founder of Conscious Living Connection providing coaching/mentoring for forward thinking individuals and groups who want to create what matters most by connecting them with their passion and inherent creativity through the Consciously Living with Passion Purpose and Prosperity Success Program. Colleen is also known as the Passions to Action Mentor. www.consciouslivingconnection.com Sign up for your Fr^ee Create What Matters Most gift bundle

Just a quick note

Hello to all of you in the Conscious Living Connection Community who are ready to connect with what's important to you to create what matters most.

My husband & I will heading up to Wyoming for a about a week and a half to take care of some business and for a little R&R in the higher elevations before he starts a new employment adventure. I'll post when I can with accompanying photos of the grandeur and beauty of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.

Are you happy? Personal happiness is just that-personal. Cultivating happiness habits helps us navigate through the rough patches of life. Being aware of the happiness robbers can give us an edge in nurturing happiness habits. These happiness robbers could be called the 3 Misamigos. These robber barons come in the guise of:

1. Complaining

2. Blaming

3. Feeling shame.

Focusing on the solution, Looking for the gift or lesson and making peace with yourself are empowerment habits that can nip these happiness robbers in the bud. Creating other supportive habits also helps like this fellow in the video.

I received this from several friends-thank you Renee, Rhonda & Bob over the summer and felt that this would be a great time to share it. I hope you Dance!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&feature=user

Wishing you happiness,

Colleen