Happiness Academy

Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way!  Join Mirna to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life.  At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with intentionality, purpose and enjoyment. Looking for more experiences like this, packed in a fun and enjoyable learning experience? Join as at Happiness Academy Getaway this autumn:   ⁠https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/

Today, a little bit different episode: I will guide you through a short meditation practice called “Rest in the Flow of Effortlessness”. It is a perfect meditation to do when you are a bit too much “in action mode”, accessing things in life with a sense of struggle and effort.  However, it means you will need to listen this episode in a quiet space and focused way, practicing it as a form of short meditation. I hope you will enjoy it, and find the experience insightful.  Looking for more experiences like this, packed in a fun and enjoyable learning experience? Join as at Happiness Academy Getaway this autumn:   https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ For short & easy ways to practice mindfulness download the free ebook “Mindfulness Made Easy: 90 short & simple exercises for a more mindful life” https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made-easy-ebook/ You can check the news about upcoming on-demand virtual course https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness/ or keep an eye on the newsletter https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter

Oh, who hasn't been there: dragged by our own brain into the place of worry, anxiety, or perhaps overthinking, overanalyzing, attempting to control pretty much everything…  The destructive thought patterns tend to sabotage our wellbeing - as well as our focus and efficiency.  So how can we deal with them? The answers are in this podcast episode!

Winter blues - that mild feeling of being down with your energy and mood, all due to cold and dark days. How can we deal with the “winter blues” more effectively? To deal with the winter blues (or with any other kind of blues), we have three powerful toolboxes:

In this episode I am exploring what are the beliefs, myths and assumptions that tend to keep is stuck in overthinking and sabotage us in creating an amazing life vision & life plan. I also share an ideas of what to replace these myths with to kickstart your best life plan yet. Would you like me to guide you and support you with your life design? Join me at Life Design workshop, for a structured and effective process to create your clear & inspiring life vision & life plan: https://happiness-academy.eu/application-for-life-design-create-a-life-you-love-on-demand-course/ Happiness Academy newsletter, with weekly dose of positive pscyhology tools and tips: https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter Life is short - let's live it in a meaningful, engaged and joyful way! Join Mirna every second Wednesday to discover positive psychology tools and tips that will support you in building such a life. At Happiness Academy podcast, you will gain new knowledge, but also feel motivated and inspired to keep improving your life and design it with intentionality, purpose and enjoyment.

Having the best plan and the most inspiring vision won't mean a lot if we don't find a way to create space and actions to put that vision in place. And in the world filled with noise and distractions, that is truly an art! How can you get better with protecting your priorities? That is exactly what I am exploring - with many practical tips - in todays podcast episode. I hope you will leave this episode motivated to create more clarity and focus in your life - as well as with ideas on HOW to achieve that. Looking to learn more? Join me at some of the following learning journeys or check other podcast episodes: Does your work plan need a big revision, and you could use some accountability, structure and guidance in making it? Join me at Life Design online workshop and design a clear, motivating life vision and life plan. ⁠https://happiness-academy.eu/application-for-life-design-create-a-life-you-love-on-demand-course/⁠ For more accountability and tools for work on your priorities and perspectives, join me at My Remarkable Year program: https://happiness-academy.eu/remarkable-year/ TEDx talk in which I shared the framework of 3 P's (the second P being Perspective which I am exploring deeper in this podcast episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPack976maY Connected episodes: - Podcast #25: Discovering new perspectives in life - to be more creative, and to open our eyes to more options: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/xivS1Te5LFb - Podcast #24: Be Proactive & Live Proactively: 5 Approaches to Live a More Proactive Life: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/uG3JtzwVLFb Happiness Academy newsletter, with positive psychology tools and tips in your inbox every Thursday: https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter/ Looking to discover more about perspectives and work with your thinking? Check out Build Powerful Mindset course on Happiness Academy: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindset-online-course/

Year end: what a great opportunity to reflect on your life goals, and on what changes and adjustments would you like to make.  In this podcast episode, I am sharing with you: 2 short tools (10 - 20 minutes) for structured and smart reflection on your life that you can apply at any moment in your life when you feel like you need a bit of adjustment 1 super important question to get your life back on track in less than a minute 1 comprehensive yet very valuable and deep  tool for year end reflection  Do keep in mind that you can use these valuable and powerful reflection exercises not just at the end of the year - but at any point in your life when you need a bit of re-focus, guidance or make a bit decision.  Keep on learning valuable tools from positive psychology with Happiness Academy weekly newsletter: https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter/ To reflect deeper on your life, join me for one of the two learning opportunities: Does your work plan need a big revision, and you could use some accountability, structure and guidance in making it?  Join me at Life Design online workshop and design a clear, motivating life vision and life plan in a 3h online workshop.  https://happiness-academy.eu/application-for-life-design-create-a-life-you-love-on-demand-course/ For more accountability and tools for work on your priorities and perspectives throughout the year, join me at My Remarkable Year program: https://happiness-academy.eu/remarkable-year/ And if you feel it's time of transition for you, here is another podcast episode that you might like.

To feel like our life is all that we want it to be, to be able to dream big, but also to choose the best option for ourselves, first we need to have options! And options come from our creative thinking, from ability to generate new perspectives and insights, from being dreamer but also critical thinker. Hey, but noone taught us how to do that, you say? That is why we are exploring it in today's podcast episode - from broad ideas to practical tips on how to work with your thinking and perspectives. Does your work plan need a big revision, and you could use some accountability, structure and guidance in making it? Join me at Life Design online workshop and design a clear, motivating life vision and life plan. ⁠https://happiness-academy.eu/application-for-life-design-create-a-life-you-love-on-demand-course/ ⁠ For more accountability and tools for work on your priorities and perspectives, join me at My Remarkable Year program: ⁠https://happiness-academy.eu/remarkable-year/⁠ TEDx talk in which I shared the framework of 3 P's (the second P being Perspective which I am exploring deeper in this podcast episode: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPack976maY⁠ Podcast episode: Podcast #24: Be Proactive & Live Proactively: 5 Approaches to Live a More Proactive Life - ⁠https://youtu.be/GMiFWvj_DNY ⁠ Happiness Academy newsletter, with positive psychology tools and tips in your inbox every Thursday: https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter/⁠ Looking to discover more about perspectives and work with your thinking? Check out Build Powerful Mindset course on Happiness Academy: ⁠https://happiness-academy.eu/mindset-online-course/⁠

Get ready for a game-changing podcast episode!  Building on her TEDx talk insights, Mirna dives into intentional living, focusing on the first key element: proactivity.  Join the conversation as she shares five down-to-earth approaches to inject boldness into your life.  From vision and identity to small steps, we will explore how to take charge of your life.  Don't miss this episode for practical tips on living a proactive and purposeful life! If this podcast episode gave you some great ideas…but you would like to keep on working on them? Here are some places where you can learn more: Haven't defined your life vision yet… and would use some help?  Join us at Life Design online workshop (also available in on-demand version - apply at the same link): https://happiness-academy.eu/life-design-create-a-life-you-love-online-workshop/ Be braver by working on your thought patterns and “stories” that you tell yourself - join us at Build Powerful Mindset online course to discover tools to get there:  https://happiness-academy.eu/mindset-online-course/ Ready for the best year you ever had?  Join us at Remarkable Year - a year long mix of a coaching program, mastermind and a course to support you in working on your goals, wellbeing and self-development  (signups opened in November)  https://happiness-academy.eu/remarkable-year/ The best way to stay in touch and keep on learning (for free) is on Happiness Academy weekly newsletter:  https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter

Ever thought of flow as a great solution to burnout? No? Today you will discover why it is actually one of the best antidotes.  Now, keep in mind: when you are in burnout already, that is no longer time to focus on flow. Instead, to deal with burnout, you will need to create time, and space to relax, recharged, disconnect from your stressors.  To handle stress that led you there, and to work on healing the consequences.  Yet, flow is the great state to look for at a moment when you feel you are driven…but a bit too much.  When you start to get tired and saturated with everyday work.  When you feel stressed a bit too often. Overwhelmed, perhaps.  When you feel your motivation melting, and your irritability growing.  Sooo… if you ever have those moments, in this podcast episode I am talking about how you can use flow as an antidote for stress and to prevent burning fully through your batteries. ________________ To keep on learning about flow and dive in deeper with many practical tools and tips, join us at Deep Dive into Flow online course:  http://happiness-academy.eu/deep-dive-into-flow/ For more about flow check out also the podcast episode: Podcast #21: Unlocking Flow: Your Gateway to Focus, Performance, and Joy For more about how to rest and recharge better, check the podcast episode: Podcast #12: Recharge Your Mind and Body: A Guide to the 7 Types and How to Make Them Work for You ________________

Living life courageously and to the fullest - who of us is not dreaming of it?! Yet that dream often ends up with looking at motivational quotes and cliches, while we stay in same old routine… It's time for action! In this video I am giving you clear steps on where to start. This is NOT a motivational video. Instead, it is a practical guide to living a more courageous life - one step at a time, without compromises or wasted time. ________________ If this podcast episode gave you some great ideas…but you would like to keep on working on them? Here are some places where you can learn more: Haven't defined your life vision yet… and would use some help? Join us at Life Design online workshop (also available in on-demand version - apply at the same link): https://happiness-academy.eu/life-design-create-a-life-you-love-online-workshop/ Be braver by working on your thought patterns and “stories” that you tell yourself - join us at Build Powerful Mindset online course to discover tools to get there: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindset-online-course/ Ready for the best year you ever had? Join us at Remarkable Year - a year long mix of a coaching program, mastermind and a course to support you in working on your goals, wellbeing and self-development (signups open in November) https://happiness-academy.eu/remarkable-year/ ________________

Flow - the mental state of feeling “in the zone”, immersed, deeply focused and enjoying activity that we are doing in that moment - is one of the most important factors in our wellbeing. Experiencing flow often contributes to the sense that our life is meaningful and it is related to higher performance, deeper focus, faster learning and more positive emotions in life. How can you unlock this productive and enjoyable state and build more of it in your life? Check out this podcast episode and discover practical tips for more flow! To dive in deeper into the flow, learn many new tools and tips to build more flow in your life, and keep putting the tools in practice with a support of small, positive group, join us at Deep Dive into Flow online course: http://happiness-academy.eu/deep-dive-into-flow/ To keep on learning more about wellbeing and positive psychology with Happiness Academy, make sure to subscribe to the podcast/ youtube channel and join us at weekly newsletter: www.happiness-academy.eu/newsletter ________________

In this episode, I am exploring what the research says about wellbeing at work. Next to sharing many quick statistics of amazing advantages that investing in wellbeing at work will provide for organizations and individuals, I am diving into5 groups of benefits of wellbeing at work: physical health, psychological, organizational, social and cognitive benefits. While in the podcast I am sharing research-backed insights, I don't dive deep into references - you will discover those in the ebook:  Download the ebook with the list of research on benefits of wellbeing at work (including references):  http://happiness-academy.eu/benefits-of-wellbeing-at-work-ebook-signup/ Explore how I can support you with your wellbeing at work initiatives or get in touch about wellbeing related skills training: https://happiness-academy.eu/wellbeing-at-work/  To keep on learning about positive psychology and wellbeing, make sure to join us at Happiness Academy weekly newsletter: https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter/  If you prefer to get updates about new wellbeing at work projects just once per year (in September), sign up for International week of Happiness at work updates:  https://happiness-academy.eu/international-week-of-happiness-at-work/ Finally, to discover more about practical ways of working with wellbeing at work, explore the previous podcast episode: Podcast #19: Wellbeing at Work: 6 Foundations & Practical Tips How to Strengthen Each ________________

How to ensure sustainable wellbeing at work for your team and organization? In this podcast episode you will find out what are the 6 important foundations of wellbeing at work and how can we approach building these. If you are looking for more insights and suggestions how to strengthen the wellbeing of your organization, do get in touch! Find out more about wellbeing at work: https://happiness-academy.eu/wellbeing-at-work/ To dive deeper into topics of flow or resilience and discover many practical tools, join us for online courses and book a webinar: Deep Dive into Flow: Live a more engaging life - http://happiness-academy.eu/deep-dive-into-flow/ The Art of Resilience: How to thrive in challenging times - https://happiness-academy.eu/art-of-resilience-online-course/ ________________

Our life is full of transitions and new beginnings. Sometimes it's as simple as a transition of a season and restart after the summer and holidays, while other times it's bigger than that: a new job, new career, new place to live, new family member… Whichever it is, for transition to be done well, it's great to do three things: close the past well and honour it, open up towards the future with excitement, and savour that moment of transition and all that it brings into our life. In this episode, I am exploring how can you do all 3 and sharing 5 reflection questions for each of these three aspects of life transitions. I hope you will enjoy it - and if you know someone else who is in the middle of a life transition (big or small), do share it with them too! For more insights, learnings and tools from the science of positive psychology, do join us at Happiness Academy weekly newsletter: https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter ________________

To achieve any deep change or meaningful results, there are 4 crucial elements that we need to align. When these 4 work for us, they propel us forward with power and agility, and create amazing results.  Discover in today's episode what the 4 elements are, and how to make them work for you.  To use the 4 elements in working on your wellbeing, join us at Happiness Academy virtual courses on wellbeing, mindset, resilience or flow: https://happiness-academy.eu/virtual-courses/ If you are looking for a program that supports you with all 4 throughout a whole year - join us for My Remarkable Year, year-long coaching program for maximum results in terms of your wellbeing, goals and self-development, with minimum investment of time (with just 2h call each month): https://happiness-academy.eu/remarkable-year To keep on learning about wellbeing and positive psychology, join us at Happiness Academy weekly newsletter:  https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter  ________________

In this episode I share practical tips for those who are planning to join 10 days silent vipassana retreat - what do you need to bring, how to organize the day before and after, and what to keep in mind when planning your first vipassana experience. To discover more about the vipassana retreat experience itself, check the previous episode. For different side and flavour of mindfulness, one in which we are exploring it more gently and enjoyably, join us at Learning Getaway at Happiness Academy. Immerse yourself for a week in mindfulness from the side of savouring, enjoying life, learning more about ourselves and meaningfully connecting with others: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ Mindfulness workshop is coming up soon - stay tuned for when it launches via Happiness Academy newsletter: https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter For quick, light and easy mindfulness exercises grab the free ebook Mindfulness Made Easy ebook https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made-easy-ebook/https://youtu.be/l1I3VH3E_lE ________________

As this podcast is being published, I am about to enter my 3rd ten days long vipassana silent retreat. As many of you were curious and asking about how is that experience - in this episode I am sharing how the first two times were. While in this episode I am talking about the experience itself, I am also preparing an episode on practical tips - what to bring and what to keep in mind - for those who decide to join. For different side and flavour of mindfulness, one in which we are exploring it more gently and enjoyably, join us at Learning Getaway at Happiness Academy. Immerse yourself for a week in mindfulness from the side of savouring, enjoying life, learning more about ourselves and meaningfully connecting with others: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ Mindfulness workshop is coming up soon - stay tuned for when it launches via Happiness Academy newsletter: https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter For quick, light and easy mindfulness exercises grab the free ebook Mindfulness Made Easy ebook https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made-easy-ebook/ ________________

How are you doing with recharging your emotional energy? You could do better? If so, this one is for you! In one of the previous episodes I talked about practical tips to recharge, with 7 types of rest in mind. In that one, I shared some tips to recharge all 7 aspects of energy: physical, mental, sensory, creative, emotional, social and spiritual. But each of these seven could be explore so much deeper! So, not to overwhelm you with podcasts on all of these topics, I asked for your preferences which of these would you like me to dive deeper into? Main voting was on Happiness Academy newsletter (join us for weekly dose of insights and tools from positive psychology sent to your inbox every Thursday https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter ), as well as on Happiness Academy Instagram https://www.instagram.com/happinessacademy/ and my Linkedin profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirnasmidt. You chose the EMOTIONAL energy as the one that is the trickiest one to manage, and that you would most like to learn to recharge better! Soooo… in this podcast, that is the topic I am diving into! I hope you will like the ideas and the insights shared. (and if you do, do remember to share this episode, as well as rate the Happiness Academy Podcast ;)) ________________

Zest is the sense of great enthusiasm and energy, sense of vitality. The sense of feeling alive, and living life like an adventure. One of the most important abilities to live satisfied, fulfilled, inspiring life. “Zest means approaching a situation, or life in general, with excitement and energy, not approaching tasks or activities halfway or halfheartedly” (says VIA Institute on Character) How would it be to have more of zest in life? More of vitality, excitement for living? In this podcast, you will discover how to build more of it. Enjoy the listening - and if you like the ideas shared, do remember to share this episode, as well as rate the Happiness Academy Podcast. To keep on discovering practical and actionable positive psychology tools, join us at Happiness Academy newsletter for weekly dose of insights in your inbox every Thursday - https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter Follow Happiness Academy Instagram https://www.instagram.com/happinessacademy/ Connect with Mirna via Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirnasmidt Art of resilience course - https://happiness-academy.eu/art-of-resilience-online-course/ ________________

Have you read an amazing article on TEDx about 7 types of rest? It talks about, to recharge well, we need to pay attention to 7 aspects of our energy, and think how to recharge each of them. In this podcast, I am exploring how can you use this idea in practice - how can you use the 7 types of rest to recharge better? You can find the original article here: https://ideas.ted.com/the-7-types-of-rest-that-every-person-needs/ Looking for getting better at recharge, self-awareness and mindfulness? Joining us for the Learning Getaway in Istria might be the right move ;) Discover more at https://happiness-academy.eu/getaways https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ Self-check in exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3RuG9lasvAHere you can find the 10 minute long guided exercise to do your self-checkin. Discover more tips and tools on Happiness Academy: - weekly Newsletter https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter - Instagram https://www.instagram.com/happinessacademy/ - or connect with Mirna on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/mirnasmidt ________________

Mindfulness can helps us improve virtually every aspect of our life: from thinking more clearly, to being more resilient, connecting better with other and experiencing more positive emotions. In this podcast episode I am sharing how. To discover new, simple and easy mindfulness practice, grab a free Mindfulness Made Easy ebook with 90 mindfulness exercises: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made-easy-ebook/ For immersive week-long experience exploring mindfulness as a source of living life more fully, join us at Learning Getaway 2023 in Croatia: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ For more insights on the topic of focus, check the podcast episode on “7 tools for focus” that I am mentioning in this episode: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/JhuiR4NtPzb Discover more tools and insights at Happiness Academy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happinessacademy/ ________________

Today I am sharing with you 7 powerful tools that you can use to build intense, unwavering focus. From keeping your body energetic, to working with mental techniques, they can all be put in practice already today! Discover more: To discover new, simple and easy mindfulness practice, grab a free Mindfulness Made Easy ebook with 90 mindfulness exercises: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made-easy-ebook/ Learn many more powerful tools for mindfulness at Happiness Academy Learning Getaway immersive week long event in Istria in autumn 2023: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ Join us at the Life Design online workshop to build a clear vision and purpose for your life: https://happiness-academy.eu/life-design-create-a-life-you-love-online-workshop/ Look for the best tools and training to master your thoughts and focus? Build Powerful Mindset online course is built to give you exactly that: http://happiness-academy.eu/mindset-online-course/ Keep an eye on Happiness Academy newsletter for future podcast episodes and weekly articles on positive psychology topics: https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter ________________

It is all too easy to slip into mundane everyday habits: doing same old routines at work, eating without truly enjoying the food, talking without making that conversation meaningful and inspiring, spending evenings with Netflix in lack of better ideas. But is that really how we wanna be spending our lives? If you are looking to make more out of it - to live a life that is exciting and enjoyable - here are three tips to start off.

You can find many more tools like this on our Instagram: https://instagram.com/happinessacademy?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Mindfulness Made Easy ebook: https://happiness-academy.eu/mindfulness-made-easy-ebook/  Learning Getaway 2023 -  an immersive week-long event in Croatia on Mindfulness, Savouring and Enjoying Life Fully: https://happiness-academy.eu/istria-getaway/ ----------

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In modern world, we are constantly under attack of all the distractions and stimuli around us. Life is fast and there is always more to do.  Are you tired and overwhelmed from all the noise? Do you fall into feeling rushed and busy too easily? Disconnect from how your body feels - not moving enough, eating poorly?  Or just sabotage your enjoyment in life by always having too many “to-do's” and being constantly busy? But what if we can do it differently?  How can we live a life that is rich in moments of enjoyment, fully savouring experiences of every day, feeling grounded and calm? Mindfulness is the key to such life - and it is quite within our reach.  In todays podcast episode, I am sharing with you 3 powerful, practical, science-based toolboxes that will help you build more mindfulness, presence and enjoyment in your life. I hope you will enjoy exploring them - but even more that you will put them in practice already today.