Episode 112: How Seniors Can Be Happier, Healthier & Thrive in Retirement | The Happiness Warrior

Well, maybe share with the audience how you became known as the happiness warrior, and then maybe a couple simple things that we could all do to be a little bit more happy.

Well, I've always thought that the main purpose in life is to do good, is to do something good in the world.

And as a warrior, I always had a kind of a warrior persona around myself.

And I read a really great book called become your own superhero.

And it was kind of like, it was a self-help, it was a help book.

It was like just taking something that you feel strongly about, maybe getting out of your head and becoming that person that we think is so incredible.

And I've always thought that's a really good way to look at life, become your own superhero and be someone that you trust and that you admire and that you respect.

And that's a process.

That can be something where a lot of people put themselves down.

They have negative self-talk.

Maybe they're even is in situations where they feel like they can't move or they're stuck.

And we deserve to be happy.

That's the most important thing too.

And we deserve to be happy.

Not to hear the word no is so much.

And if you hear, I don't hear that when someone tells me no, I might hear the word, but I might think to myself, well, that's okay for them to say, no, this doesn't mean I'm going to accept that as, as, as my fate.

So, yeah.

Very well said.

That's fantastic.

We love what we do is we hear a lot of people can't be happy because of finances.

That's yeah.

Like huge, huge weight on people's shoulders, especially in retirement.

And how, how do you handle heavy issues like that?

I always say, first of all, you, Listen to the universe.

There's always a message out there for you.

Well, maybe share with the audience how you became known as the happiness warrior, and then maybe a couple simple things that we could all do to be a little bit more happy.

Well, I've always thought that the main purpose in life is to do good, is to do something good in the world.

And as a warrior, I always had a kind of a warrior persona around myself.

And I read a really great book called become your own superhero.

And it was kind of like, it was a self-help, it was a help book.

It was like just taking something that you feel strongly about, maybe getting out of your head and becoming that person that we think is so incredible.

And I've always thought that's a really good way to look at life, become your own superhero and be someone that you trust and that you admire and that you respect.

And that's a process.

That can be something where a lot of people put themselves down.

They have negative self-talk.

Maybe they're even is in situations where they feel like they can't move or they're stuck.

And we deserve to be happy.

That's the most important thing too.

And we deserve to be happy.

Not to hear the word no is so much.

And if you hear, I don't hear that when someone tells me no, I might hear the word, but I might think to myself, well, that's okay for them to say, no, this doesn't mean I'm going to accept that as, as, as my fate.

So, yeah.

Very well said.

That's fantastic.

We love what we do is we hear a lot of people can't be happy because of finances.

That's yeah.

Like huge, huge weight on people's shoulders, especially in retirement.

And how, how do you handle heavy issues like that?

I always say, first of all, you, Listen to the universe.

There's always a message out there for you.