Season 2 Recap: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs and Cultivating Success
Happiness Within Chaos
Hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault go back over the content of season two and put all the puzzle pieces together on shattering your limiting beliefs. Learn how to program your brain to see possibilities instead of roadblocks and shape the way you think and solve problems with the words you use to describe the world. A belief is the acceptance that a statement is true. All of season two has been about shattering limiting beliefs and using positive words to program your brain with a more positive mindset. Words are the foundation of how we think. By using different words and asking the right...
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Positivity for Life: Real Stories of How Our Strategies Have Changed Lives Forever
Happiness Within Chaos
Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault discuss life accountability and how to make sure you stick to your plans and accomplish your goals. Find out why having an accountability partner is a complete game-changer when it comes to goals and how you can use accountability in all seven areas of your life to live the life of your dreams. We all have the opportunity to get back up after falling down. One of the most important lessons you can learn is to not get stuck on the inevitable obstacles you are going to face in life. “Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”...
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Habits of Happiness: Simple Practices to Boost Your Positivity
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In today's episode, hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault dive into habits and how to instill new habits and behaviors in your life by using simple, small steps that add momentum to your life. Find out how habits determine the results you get in your life and how to consciously hone and cultivate good habits that ensure success. The definition of a habit is “the usual way of behaving or a tendency that someone has settled into.” Creating habits is fundamentally about creating new behaviors and building a routine that makes them automatic, at least in the case of positive habits. Habits can...
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Sleep Better, Live Happier: The Ultimate Night Routine for Positive Energy
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In today's episode, hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault discuss how to craft a night time routine that leads to a restful sleep and feeling rejuvenated. Learn how to create a routine that’s tailored to your needs, how to know if something in your current routine needs to change, and some major misconceptions around sleep that may be preventing you from getting the optimal rest you need to succeed. If your morning routine is about getting your day ready for success, your night routine is about rejuvenating and recovering from a productive day and is just as important. No matter what time of...
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Overcoming Obstacles: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities for Growth and Success
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In today's episode, hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault discuss obstacles and how the challenges we face in life are opportunities for us to learn and improve. Find out why positivity is crucial to overcoming obstacles and why things always feel harder before we’ve faced them and not so bad when you look in the rear view mirror. Obstacles will arise, but the question is how you respond to them. There are five major obstacles that most of us face on a daily basis: time, money, skill, routine, and effort. All of those things will hold us back from achieving what we want in life. They may seem...
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Rise and Shine: Create a Morning Routine to Unlock Productivity and Happiness
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In today's episode, hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault break down the components of a morning routine that sets your day up for success. Find out why morning routines are all the rage, how to create a morning routine that works for you, and why a consistent morning routine is like giving yourself a gift every single day. The Oxford dictionary definition of routine is a “sequence of actions regularly followed” In other words, a fixed program. Your morning routine keeps you focused and helps you start your day off on the right foot. There are many different recommendations on establishing...
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Breaking Free from Cognitive Biases: How to Achieve Success
Happiness Within Chaos
In today's episode, hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault discuss biases and how they affect our lives. Learn about the different types of biases that we all have and how to use self-reflection and critical thinking to challenge your biases and make better decisions in your life. When it comes to biases, the student mindset will always surpass the teacher. Bias is “the action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment.” Our brains are lazy and biases are a way for our brain to save energy in...
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Mindset Mastery: Cultivating a Growth Mindset for Personal Growth
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In today's episode, hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault are discussing the absolute vital importance of a growth mindset in your life, and some key strategies you can use to cultivate a growth mindset and avoid the most common misconception people have around happiness, success, and wealth. The definition of mindset varies but the Oxford Dictionary defines it as a set of attitudes and fixed ideas that someone has that are difficult to change. It’s the beliefs that you hold and how they shape your perception of your life and the world. Fundamentally, your mindset is either fixed or...
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From Negative to Positive: Rewiring Your Brain for a Brighter Future With Positive Words
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In today's episode, hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault are back for the second season of the podcast to talk about the power of positive words and language and how they can transform the way you think about the most important areas of your life. Words have the incredible power to affect your internal state, but also the physical state of your brain. Using positive words instead of negative words can have an immediate effect on your internal state. If you put positive words into your brain, what do you think will be the end result? More often than not, positive words will lead to positive...
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Season 1 Recap: Practical Steps on How to Be Happy in Your Daily Life
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In today's episode, hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault recap season one of the Happiness Within Chaos podcast and all the lessons learned along the way. Happiness all starts with an anchor. The Happiness Score is where you begin and becomes your anchor/starting point for the rest of your life. Happiness is not a steady state. In a world of chaos we should be expecting ups and downs. One of the most impactful things you can do for your overall happiness is actually measure it using the Happiness Score. This gives you a way to organize everything in your mind and enhance the areas of your life...
info_outlineIs it possible to be truly happy within chaos? In today's episode, hosts Deb Turton and Guy Daigneault discuss the myths and realities of happiness. They share some intriguing stats on happiness and how we can all play a part in making the world a happier place.
- Deb and Guy start the conversation with a brief overview of three happiness myths:
- You can/should be happy 24/7
- Happiness is in our genes
- Happiness is a mindset
- According to Deb, the number one driver of unhappiness is comparison.
- Guy shares the heartbreaking story of how he lost his mom to Alzheimer's disease.
- The pain of losing a parent is unbearable, but it pays to look for the positives in such a situation - for example, Guy is thankful for the quality time he spent with his mom a few months before her death.
- Deb shares how she lost her Dad to cancer when she was 20 - And just like Guy, she is thankful for the times they spent together before his death.
- Guy explains why being present is a huge part of being happy
- Is it possible to be happy 24/7? Deb and Guy agree that it's possible, but it often comes down to your interpretation of happiness.
- Guy points out that just like light cannot exist without darkness, happiness cannot exist without sadness.
- Happiness comes down to our genes - Guy talks about the numerous studies that prove 50% of our happiness is from our genes, 10% from circumstances, and 40% from things within our control.
- Deb reveals the drawbacks of being a people pleaser and how it can lead to unhappiness.
- Deb and Guy explore what married couples can do to build a happy marriage.
- Deb and Guy share their thoughts on the meaning of a "good wife," plus helpful tips necessary for relationships to thrive.
- Is happiness a state of mind? Yes and No.
- Guy and Deb agree that a positive mindset is necessary for one to be happy, but you cannot cover unhappiness with a positive state of mind.
Mentioned in This Episode:
Discover Your Happiness Score - TheHappinessAlgorithm.com/happiness-score
TheHappinessAlgorithm.com/show
The Happiness Algorithm on Instagram - @happinessalgorithm