Happiest by Susan Chadaz

Send us Fan Mail In your daily life have you ever felt mentally drained, gasping for breath and stumbling through thigh-deep snow just to put one foot in front of the other? Welcome to Survival 101.  Be ready to learn how you can be prepared, carry on, and find the happy in any climb. 

Send us Fan Mail Whenever we look outside of ourselves, we tend to evaluate, compare, and judge. But it is possible to rise above judgment and rewire our brains toward more understanding and empathy for ourselves and those around us. 

Send us Fan Mail What’s your story?  And do you really want to stick to it? Just because we think something, doesn’t mean it's true, but how we consistently think leads us to how we act.  We can think thoughts that will help us to act with compassion and hope, or we can choose thoughts that can leave us depressed and angry. You have a choice every day to choose what story you 'want to st...

Send us Fan Mail In all of our ‘Happy-ology’ learning, I wonder if there might be some ‘Happy-ology’ unlearning that needs to also take place. Maybe on your journey to learn how to find the happy, you’ve been practicing it over and over again, only to find out you had some unhappy habits that were ‘missing the mark'.  Today we are going to talk about, unhappiness and how to unlearn it. 

Send us Fan Mail Can you clearly see through the circling seasons of your life? What is your visibility scale as you rise and look around at this journey we call life? In this podcast, we are going to talk about the Visibility Scale, and how seeing yourself more clearly will help you on your journey forward. 

Send us Fan Mail In your journey to find the happy, building relationships with other people matter, and matter more than anything else in the world.  Making a connection with someone can jolt us with positivity in the moment and then that connection strengthens over time which raises our happiness baseline permanently. 

Send us Fan Mail Kindness really is contagious and is known to actually have lasting effects not only on the receiver but the giver as well.  A simple act of kindness, holding the door open, a smile, or giving a compliment can bring a smile to your face and lift your mood. 

Send us Fan Mail Do you have an emergency 'fiery trial' preparedness plan for your life?  When life gives you billows and days that are tempest-tossed, grab hold of your ‘emergency trial preparedness’ plan and instead of stop, drop and roll, you will be able to start, lift, and grow.

Send us Fan Mail If you are to choose the happy in your life with all the possibilities that can come when you step forward out of the mundane of your life, then you will need to learn how to keep fear in check. Fear is a call for courage.  

Send us Fan Mail  Curiosity is the ‘sauce’ that takes a normal life and enhances a curious mind to look beneath the surface and discover new possibilities. How is your curiosity and how can you cultivate more of it in your search to find the happy? 

Send us Fan Mail You have the superpower to shape any external event in your life into the story you want it to tell.  The story you choose to tell about your own life story is inexplicably linked to your finding the happy in it.

Send us Fan Mail Having patience will give you the ability to keep moving forward in your life as you blend together hope and acceptance which is the recipe for more patience. In a nutshell, it’s easier to be happy if you are patient.

Send us Fan Mail We all make mistakes, some big and some small.  By scanning what’s up ahead of you, looking for positive opportunities to learn and grow, and by rejecting the belief that every down in life leads you only further down, you will give yourself the greatest power possible; the ability to ‘fall up’.  "We don't make mistakes, we just have happy accidents." 

Send us Fan Mail Once we truly ‘get the picture’ that we are all unique and different, and once we really understand the reason why we are all unique and different, then we will be able to stop comparing and start admiring the many unique and different strengths and powers we all have been given…that all the world may be profited thereby.

Send us Fan Mail What do you think of when you hear the word 'success'?  In this podcast, we are going to talk about orienting ourselves, our kids, and our families toward success...especially since it is time, once again, for Back to School.

Send us Fan Mail Comparisons can nibble away at our happiness and chew away at our self-worth. You don’t need to compare yourself to others to find your own worth, your own value, your own strengths. You really are enough, You are worthy of happiness.  You are exactly where you need to be.  You can find the happy in your life right where you are. 

Send us Fan Mail Is it possible to build well-being, and can we create the kind of happiness that will last?  Just as an artist paints a masterpiece through years of experience and learning, you are also building a masterpiece for your life as you search for the happy in it.

Send us Fan Mail What do you do to keep moving forward when hard things come into your life?  No matter where your life has taken you, .no matter how far you have traveled, there is always a road leading to higher ground.  See the good, find the happy, and watch for blessings in disguise.

Send us Fan Mail You see, happy really is just on the other side of choice. It takes work and ownership to choose the happy, but you can choose it. You are worthy to receive it, you are qualified to accomplish it, and you have the magic inside of you to keep it in your life.  

Send us Fan Mail As you try each day to be more grateful in your life, holding on to more positives and hope in each new day, there is an upward spiral of the happy that will not only lift you but will also have a positive outward effect increasing the happy of everyone around you. Being happy is literally contagious.

Send us Fan Mail Each night after the day is done, ask yourself “What has God blessed me with today?”  Then share your light, proclaim in words on the tops of mountains after a steep hike.  Say what your Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ have done for you that day, around the kitchen table. Explain to your children how grateful you are for them……and you will fortify a family of faith, and generate...

Send us Fan Mail How would you define a hero?  Who are the superheroes in your life who have lifted you, helped you, and saved you?  Add to your gratitude list, the many people all around you who bless your life.

Send us Fan Mail There is always hope. A tool for finding the happy in life is not only being grateful for the blessings of the past but also looking frontward into possibilities and prospects of blessings up ahead. A pathway of hope for the future, in disheartening times, can light the way forward with hope.

Send us Fan Mail There is power in prayer.   Our Father in Heaven has promised that we can have peace in times of trial and has given us a way to come to him in our need.  Because of his perfect love, we are given the priceless privilege and power of prayer.

Send us Fan Mail What if journaling was ‘good for you?  What if you added journaling to your daily intake of eating your vegetables?  What if adding journaling to your life helped you find more of the happy in it?  What if adding journaling to your life, turned over a ‘happy’ return on your investment?  What if it worked?