The Happiness Hunter Podcast

Life Integration is the philosophy of seamlessly integrating wellbeing into every area of your life. Everything you do is your life, even work. Life Integration is about seeking balance across all areas of your life - recognising that everything in your life and that everything you do is inextricably linked. Understanding that when one or two (or three or four...) elements are out of whack will im...

Walking is one of the most underrated and overlooked activities in life. Walking is movement. Movement creates energy and momentum. Walking is one of the simplest, easiest and cost-effective ways for us to get our energy moving - essentially to shift our energetic state. Research (and there is much research to support this) has found that the benefits of walking include: boosts creative inspiratio...

For change to take place, a change needs to take place. So if we want things in your life to change, but we don't change, then nothing will change. It's not a complicated formula. We often think that change is too hard - that to get from where we are now to where we would like to be requires too much effort, and it feels too overwhelming, and it is going to take time that we don't have right now....

Being intentional and focused about what we do at the very beginning of our day and the very end of our day creates a very different experience for our life. When we can set our day up for success by spending an hour or so doing all the things that help us create a state of peace and calm and balance and focus within us, we set a very positive trajectory for our day. Likewise, if we can end our da...

The Happiness Quotient or HQ is based on The Seven Elements Framework for Life Integration, which underpins a lot of the work that we do in The Happiness Hunter. The framework was initially developed in 2013, with a friend of mine, Paul O’Brien. Since that time Paul and I have both gone on to refine and adapt the framework as we deepened our individual understanding of it's application to rea...

This episode is about what it is like to be facing the obstacles and the challenges in our lives, and how we can gain greater awareness and understanding of them – to use the world as our mirror to understand our thought processes and belief systems and to understand what we can do differently to create a better outcome for ourselves. And when we can honestly do this, then we can start to really w...

Charlie Gilkey helps people start finishing the stuff that matters. Charlie is the founder of Productive Flourishing, a company that helps professional creatives, leaders, and changemakers take meaningful action on work that matters. He is the author of the book Start Finishing and The Small Business Lifecycle, and host of the Productive Flourishing podcast. Before starting Productive Flourishing,...

We all have the same 24 hours in every day. Why are some people able to manage their time and get more done, calmly, focused and with minimal stress, and others flap their way through the day stressed, in a panic and with limited productivity? In this episode of the podcast, you'll understand how tracking what you do in the day will teach you just how much time you waste (and how you can change th...

Great lives are made up of great days, and great days are made up of all the decisions we make through the day... starting with the intention of having a great day.  Making the decision to have a great day is a choice.  In this episode of the podcast, you'll learn about the importance of implementing a morning routine, and the steps you can take to balance yourself and put yourself in th...

A worried person SEES a problem. A concerned person SOLVES a problem. Worrying about things never fixes them, never changes them, never helps us in any way. Worrying about something - allowing the repetitive thinking to take over - simply makes us feel anxious and quite often, powerless, and will keep us stuck in the same old cycle until we make a change. Being concerned on the other hand, means t...

Boundaries are a sign of self-respect, so love yourself enough to set and honour them. They come in many forms, and most conversations refer to emotional boundaries of how we allow others to treat or speak to us. Yet, we tend to overlook the boundaries we set, or do not set, for ourselves. Boundaries are the emotional limits set, which are activated when breached. A breach is usually a behaviour o...

Our rewards, outcomes and experiences in life are in direct relation to our attitude, our effort, our contribution, our service. Our deeds are what counts. So if we are not taking action, then nothing counts. We need to be the catalyst. If we want a different experience, we need to do something differently. So, have a listen to this episode, reflect on what it means for you and then go out into th...

In today's episode of the podcast, you'll discover the difference between laziness, procrastination, idleness and rest & recovery. If you are super honest with yourself, how often have you justified your lack of action as "rest & recovery" when in fact, it was probably closer to laziness or procrastination? And again, super honestly, how well has that strategy worked out for you in the pas...

A vision board is the visual representation of your desires and aspirations for your life. They are a useful tool to inspire and to motivate you to take consistent daily action in pursuit of your goals and dreams. Our minds see in images, not words. Our focus and energy is what creates the outcome - this works for both what we want, and what we don’t want. Transformation in any area of our life st...

With over 1000 videos on YouTube and 33 million views, Brad Yates is what my kids would call my favourite YouTuber. Known internationally for his creative and often humorous use of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as Tapping, Brad is joining us on the show to talk all things EFT. Emotional Freedom Technique is a form of acupressure psychology. It is based on traditional acupuncture an...

The thing we think is the thing, is never the thing. Think about in your life, when you have a problem, a challenge or are struggling with something. You will often look at the thing as being the problem. But when we think about the thing, as not being the thing, what it helps us do is to see that thing for what it really is. The manifestation or representation of something that is sitting behind...

Ask. Believe. Receive. When we set our sights on something, set a vision or create a goal, we need to believe that it is possible, and then we need to take action in the belief that it is already ours. Regardless of how impossible it might seem. Regardless of how far it seems to be from where we are standing right now. If we believe that we can be, do or have anything we desire, then we are going...

The best advice I have for anyone who has been thinking about meditation, is to stop thinking about it and simply just start. And know that NO-ONE can meditate when they first start. It's called a practice for a reason, because we have to practice to become better, to learn how to train our mind and to really start to realise the benefits (although you will notice improvements within a few short d...

Nothing changes if nothing changes. I know that this sounds like a really simple no-brainer kind of statement. And you are probably nodding in agreement as you read it, thinking that makes sense. But really, honestly stop and pause on it for a minute. Read it again, slowly. Really reflect on what it is saying. Because if change in our life starts with us changing, with us thinking or feeling or ac...

One of the most powerful ways to find peace and be ok with where you are at right now, is to learn about what we like to call The Big Guns. The starting point for all change, requires awareness. Without awareness, nothing can change. But once we have awareness, there are three key steps (The Big Guns) that we need to move through to truly learn how to meet ourselves where we are at. In this episod...

Discover what a Major Definite Purpose - or a Chief Aim - for your life is, and learn how to create one for yourself. Deciding on your Major Definite Purpose, being clear about what you desire and what you are prepared to exchange for what you desire, writing it down and reading it every day will begin to reprogram your subconscious mind. This episode was inspired by Napoleon Hill and his book Thi...

In today's episode of the podcast, you'll get to hear from human behavioural specialist and founder of The Demartini Institute, Dr John Demartini. Having authored over 50 books (and counting), over the last 40 years he has worked across the globe assisting and guiding individuals and groups to greater levels of achievement, fulfillment, and empowerment in all areas of their lives. We cover a huge...

In this episode of the podcast, you will learn an amazing little strategy to help you improve your relationships, become more aware of your belief systems, thought processes and emotions and to help you move from a space of reacting to the world, to beginning to respond. To be in the drivers seat of your life. Practicing being Teflon creates an opening to start to see yourself, the world and other...

Journalling is the practice of downloading your thoughts and feelings around a particular event, person or situation, with a desire to understand and make sense of the chaos and the jumble. Journalling is like having a deeply private conversation with your innermost thoughts and feelings, and is a process to tap into your innate wisdom. In this episode I address the common challenges when it comes...

On January 21st 2013, I decided to stop drinking. It was a decision a few months in the making, so by the time I made it, it was actually quite a relief. I share my story and experience with everyone: I am very open about the fact that I don’t drink, I am not ashamed of it, I don’t need to justify it, but if people do ask, I let them know why. And basically it was this - drinking was just not work...