How to Nurture Your Inner Home of Happiness

Apr 7, 2020

Developing strategies to increase your happiness is something we should all work towards. Luckily, I'm joined by the happiness guru herself, Marci Shimoff, who shares how to be happy for no reason.

About Marci Shimoff

Marci is a #1 NY Times bestselling author and transformational leader. She is an expert on happiness, success, and unconditional love. Marci inspires others to feel happiness and love for no reason, from the inside out.

In this episode, we talk about why it's so important to nurture our thoughts. When we focus on the good in the world, we see and experience more good. On the flip side, if we focus on the negative, we only see negative things.

Marci explains what the happiness set-point is and why it's so important to learn more about it. She also talks us through how we can change our happiness set-point - and why want to!

Marci briefly describes what the Inner Home of Happiness is and how it's built. There are four different parts of your life to nurture to boost your Inner Home. What area are you neglecting?

Training yourself to appreciate the good in every day is a practice. The happiest people in the world practice gratitude and seek out good moments. Marci shares how long it actually takes to appreciate a good moment.

Marci shares three techniques to help with spending more time at home with our families. She encourages you to play The Appreciation Game every day with your family. After all, "there is no better time to help raise the happiness set-point than with children."

Are you living an inspired life? Ask me anything and let me hear your thoughts in the comments on the episode page. If you have questions, email team@drannacabeca.com.

In This Episode

Where you should focus your attention
What your happiness set-point is
How you can change your happiness set-point
What you need to do to build your Inner Home of Happiness
How long it takes to appreciate the good
Why you should play The Appreciation Game every day

Quotes

“The key to our happiness is not the changing of the outside circumstances. It’s actually the raising of the happiness set point.” (8:50)

“Be on the lookout for the positives. They are out there. We have a billion different bits of information that come our way every second and we only notice what it is we’re on the lookout for. Happy people are actually on the lookout for the positives.” (16:58)

“There’s no better time to help raise the happiness set point-than with children.” (25:45)

“When there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. When there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. When there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in this world.” (28:37)