What are Your Life's Best Decisions: List #5 of the 52 Lists for Happiness? S#1 E#7

Welcome to another episode of our podcast, videocast! Today, we dive into List #5 of the "52 Lists for Happiness" by Maury Seal, focusing on the best choices we've made in our lives so far. Join us as we explore the significance of taking an "adult time out" to reflect on life's best decisions and how they propel us forward.

Our host, Denise Reed, shares personal anecdotes about pivotal decisions such as pursuing higher education, learning to type, studying social media, and surrounding oneself with smart people. These reflections serve as a reminder that not all our decisions are bad and some have lasting positive effects. Her shared life experiences might give you ideas on what to include in your own best life decision list.

We'll also discuss practical advice from Maury Seal, including taking five minutes each morning to reflect on your list and trusting your inner wisdom to find joy. Additionally, Reed shares insights on planning and executing bite-sized tasks to solve problems or seize opportunities.

Join us in this inspiring episode to evaluate your own life choices and move forward with newfound clarity and purpose. Don't miss our next episode as we continue our journey through the "52 Lists for Happiness"!

 

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Episode Transcript

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Music.

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I'm getting some glare because of my glamour light on here.
And this is just the coolest journal that I have to share.
I guess because we all need some fun in our lives, we all need some happiness in our lives.

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And I keep chasing happiness
fiercely and often just because and I am glad that you're here today and I'm
trying to figure out how to see you on camera and welcome you to my office.

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I'm testing out some different cameras for my
podcast videocast and hopefully
you feel that this is an improvement we'll
know more at any rate
um we're on to list five now in the 52 list for happiness and i thought it would

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be fun to drag you along on my adventures as i explore happiness So,
list five in the 52 lists of happiness is all about the best choices you've made in your life so far.
I don't know about you, but sometimes I wonder if some of the decisions I've

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made have really been helpful or not.
And I thought it was wonderful to go in and take an adult time out and really
look at what I consider were the best decisions in my life.
And I've been here on the planet almost 60 years. I'm rounding the corner there.

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And here's a few of mine.
And I want to encourage you to take an adult time out and consider what are
some of the best choices you've made in your life so far.
It's good to take an accounting of those things because you get so caught up

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in the the hurried that sometimes you forget.
That you're not a total idiot all the time and not all your decisions are bad
ones and some of them have really propelled you forward.
And here's a few of mine just to kind of prime the pump for what you might consider

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good choices that you've made in your life so far. are.
One of mine was going to college.
Long story short, I didn't know what I really wanted to do when I graduated
high school and I was kind of floundering around to figure it all out.

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And I didn't want to make a choice
that wasn't meaningful to me and that wasn't going to make me happy.
So I was just kind of sitting still and going, okay, you got to be earning money somewhere along here.
So what are you going to do to do that? And I decided with some advice of a

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family friend to pursue my associate's degree in marketing slash advertising
and specializing in print media.
And that's helped propel me to what I'm doing today, because I was just trying to figure it out.
And I thought, I love to do those kinds of things.

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One of my other lifetime decisions was learning how to type.
And dear God, that has given me years of earning power, basically.
The fact that I took a typing class in high school, and I even went back and

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did it again in college because it was a struggle to me, and finally it clicked.
And luckily, prior to that, I had taken piano for three years,
and it helped me with not looking down at the keyboard and doing the Bible method
of typing, which is seek and you shall find.

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Sometimes that's not good for speed or accuracy.
It's better to know where the letters are on your keyboard.
I also thought that
studying social media back in 2008 was a good thing when I I started hearing

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about how people were connecting and the difference that social media was making
in building communities and bringing people together.
I also thought that taking a
life drawing class where you
actually take things that

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are around you and draw them was a wonderful experience and also helped with
my understanding of negative and positive spaces and what was good design and helping people,
interpret the world around them.

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Life drawing helped me with all of those things.
I also felt that my decision for choosing a business degree was a good thing
because who who doesn't need to understand things about business.
And when you own your own business and are influencing not only your customers, but your staff,

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it's helpful to draw on some of that expertise and experience that you've had
in your background for business.
I thought that surrounding myself with really smart people was a great idea too.
And I hope that you take that into account.

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One of the things that the author,
Maury Seal, recommends in
list five for happiness about the life decisions that have been positive in
your life impact is to take five minutes each morning this week to reflect on

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your list before you start your day.
And she also points out that you have so much to,
I guess, take in and trust your
inner wisdom for finding your joy and leading you on to the next step.

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I have, because I have really dug down into my podcast, I have recently started,
what is the phrase I'm looking for?
Been inspired to write some more and share from my life experience some business

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slash personal things that have made a difference for me.
I guess when you're looking at the elephants in your life, be them positive or negative,
you want to explore what that means to you and make sure that you're actually moving ahead.

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And I think taking inventory of the things, the good decisions that you've made
that have had, that has had, I think that's how you would say it,
lasting positive effects in your life, it's a great thing.
And that can be the elephant in your room.
Some of the ideas around that is you want to continue to improve and look for ways to improve.

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The idea of always improving proofing on what you're doing, that could really
whip you into shape and help you dig down for your next steps in life.
So take a think time out to define exactly what your problem or opportunity is.

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The next step could be planning to find resources, people, and the how-to to
solve this elephant issue.
You'll want to break down the opportunity or the problem into bite-sized tasks.

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If you don't have a plan of action, you're never going to move forward.
So take a timeout, plan your execution of those bite-sized tasks,
and you might find out that you're moving forward faster than you thought.

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So, hey, I'm so glad you took this few moments to be with me today.
And hopefully you've been inspired to create an opportunity or,
I guess, evaluate a problem in a different way and move yourself forward.

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So here's to our 52 lists of happiness by Maury Seal and our next episode on to our number six list.
So I'll see you next time. Hope you have a great day.