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Journeys This episode of "My Happy Ass Life" is all about journeys. Angie Thompson is joined by guest host Karen, who shares her journey to The Bahamas to meet her sister-in-law. Angie is also embarking on a long journey to Denver, where she'll drive her nephew JD to his new home. Journeys can come in many forms, such as plane trips, walks, or hikes The long, arduous journeys can be transformative...

God As Spirit Show Notes Today Karen Smith, shares tips and insights on how to live a fulfilling life. In this episode, she explores the theme of distractions and how to overcome them to achieve one's goals. Main Takeaways: Distractions can often prevent us from achieving our goals, but we can learn to overcome them. Critics may come out when we start trying to do something great, but it is import...

Living My Priorities Show Notes In this episode of "My Happy Ass Life"Karen Key Smith, talks about focusing on one's priorities in life and how it can positively impact one's mental and emotional well-being. Here are the five key highlights from the episode: Change your physical state to change your emotional state Prioritizing important work and avoiding distractions Affirmation to help focus on...

Welcome to "My Happy Ass Life" with Karen Smith! Today's episode is all about living intentionally and making the most out of our time here on earth. I'm excited to have my dear friend Jennifer Vigil on the show. Jennifer is the CEO of Destination Panama City and a true inspiration when it comes to living an intentional life. Here are the highlights of our conversation: How Jennifer made the decis...

In this episode of "My Happy Ass Life," host Karen Key Smith shares a personal story about the power of positivity and kindness. She reflects on the importance of not overreacting to small things in life and not underreacting to things that bring excitement and joy. Karen encourages listeners to approach each day with an open mind and an attitude of gratitude, as every day holds something to be ex...

In this episode of My Happy Ass Life, Karen Key Smith shares her thoughts on the start of a new year and the importance of setting intentions. She talks about how she no longer sets resolutions and instead focuses on setting goals in increments and picking a word to focus on for the year. Karen also encourages listeners to focus on their gratitude and to write down the adventures they want to have...

My Happy Ass Life is a podcast hosted by Karen Key Smith where she shares her journey to savoring life and finding joy in the small things. In this episode, Karen shares her experience of playing golf with friends, reflecting on past mistakes, and learning to cherish each day. She also recommends two books, "Savor" and "Present Over Perfect" by Shauna Niequist, and encourages listeners to find a m...

In this episode of "My Happy Ass Life," host Karen Key Smith shares her personal story of surrendering her will to God and how it led to a fulfilling life, including a happy marriage with Hugh Smith. The episode delves into the importance of caring for what truly counts, focusing on the condition of one's heart and how to care for oneself and others. Karen encourages listeners to spend time in qui...

"My Happy Ass Life" hosted by Karen Smith is where we come together to grow in mind, body, and spirit so we can turn and go out and make the world a brighter and sweeter place to live for us and for others. In this podcast episode, Karen discusses the importance of changing ourselves in order to change the world. We talk about setting goals, focusing on what we can do to positively impact the worl...

Today On Happy Ass, we discuss the importance of trust in overcoming fear and failures. We hear about Bill Gates' failed venture with Traf-O-Data and how he didn't let that stop him from achieving great things. The episode also includes a discussion on the power of affirmations and the importance of not letting fear hold us back from what we are meant to do. We also explore the themes of living an...

Welcome back to season two of My Happy Ass Life with Karen Key Smith! In this podcast, Karen discusses: The importance of brain health Tips for maintaining a healthy mind, body, and spirit The need for a daily program of recovery, such as through prayer, meditation, or other self-care practices The importance of filling your emptiness with something positive and the role that God can play in this...

Confident Peace In this episode Karen shares her wisdom on how to use the Serenity Prayer to cultivate peace, acceptance and openness in our lives. Instead of worrying about the moods of others, she encourages us to focus on changing ourselves so that we can remain open to all that life has to offer – even in the hardest of moments. By listening to this inspiring and motivating episode, you’ll gai...

My Happy Ass Life Podcast is taking a break over the holidays. You don't need to worry about missing out; we'll continue to release the best of My Happy Ass Life through December 23. In mid-January, we'll launch season two. Thank you so much for all your support and love. We hope you enjoy listening to The Best of My Happy Ass Life over the holidays External Forces Show Notes It is very important...

My Happy Ass Life Podcast is taking a break over the holidays. You don't need to worry about missing out; we'll continue to release the best of My Happy Ass Life through December 23. In mid-January, we'll launch season two. Thank you so much for all your support and love. We hope you enjoy listening to The Best of My Happy Ass Life over the holidays Creative Visualizations Show Notes I read someth...

My Happy Ass Life Podcast is taking a break over the holidays. You don't need to worry about missing out; we'll continue to release the best of My Happy Ass Life through December 23. In mid-January, we'll launch season two. Thank you so much for all your support and love. We hope you enjoy listening to The Best of My Happy Ass Life over the holidays Blessings For Me And For You The world's crazy....

Be The Coffee Bean When Damon West was getting ready to go to prison, An elderly gentleman in the holding tank said to him, "Boy, I'm gonna tell you something that's gonna help you while you're in prison. You need to be the coffee bean." Damon West said, " I don't follow." The elderly gentleman said "This is the deal. If you take the pot of boiling water and you put a carrot in the pot of boiling...

My Happy Ass Life Podcast is taking a break over the holidays. You don't need to worry about missing out; we'll continue to release the best of My Happy Ass Life through December 23. In mid-January, we'll launch season two. Thank you so much for all your support and love. We hope you enjoy listening to The Best of My Happy Ass Life over the holidays Today I will Show Notes Sunday, I sat down for t...

Orderly Direction Show Notes I get a lot of my inspiration from the rooms of AA and Alanon and one of the things I used to hear Hugh say all the time with people who would have a hard concept of God (especially people who are coming into the rooms and their perception of God has not been so good. Their perceptions of their earthly fathers might have been really bad and they just don't have a good...

Let’s Go Show Notes I am so excited about our topic today and it's gonna kinda carry on during the week. So our theme this week is "let's go!" You could think of this as, let's let go of something. It could be, let's go do something we've been dying to do, but we've been holding ourselves back for fear or procrastination, whatever the reason. Let me tell you where this came from. This is so cool....

My Vision Show Notes I am so glad you are here. I am so tickled that you are here. Thank you for being here because this is where we come together to grow in mind, body, and spirit. So we can make our world a little brighter and sweeter. Today's affirmation is called My Vision and I wrote it originally on September the 28th 2021. Highlights Tickled 0:06 My Vision 0:22 Jennifer Vigil 1:33 Focus 3:0...

Free To Move Ahead We've been talking about how we react to failure. I talked a little bit about this at my monthly meeting. I talked about what would you do if you could not fail. What would you do? I told them, I said, frankly, that's a dumb ass question because the question, should be, what would I do if I had a new attitude towards failure? What would I do? If I knew that failure was just data...

Without Failure Show Notes I was thinking right before I came home today, I just breathed in... And I just breathe out and I said, God, fill me. Fill me so I can pour it out, not fill me up so I can keep it, but fill me so I can pour it out. That was my prayer this morning. Thank all of you that are sharing my posts. If you will share this, we will grow, and if we grow think of all the happy asses...

If you're about making the world a brighter and sweeter place, if that's what you're about… if that's your main goal, guess what? Your life will be brighter and sweeter too. There's no way around it. Hopefully, you might like this message today, because it's about failure. One of my favorite topics to talk about is failure and how we fail and our attitude toward failure. Because most of us don't h...

This week has been really cool. We've had a lot of talk and study about doubts and fears and letting them be washed away and not let them stop you and all those things like that. It obviously resonated with a lot of people because I have gotten phone calls, I've gotten emails, I've gotten texts and I saw some of you last night and you told me that it was really speaking to you. I try to do whateve...

I've been on this kick this week for some reason, I had a lot of stuff flowing through me about doubt and creativity and all those things. My daughter is a huge creative. I almost compared myself and I can't do that, but she's very creative. What happens when you start to create is invariably, that little doubt monster comes in and starts saying, what do you think you're doing? And who do you thin...