Sunday Spark Sessions

And we're live Cadre. Welcome to Sunday Spark Sessions. Wanted to talk about the science behind happiness routines to help with happiness and thank you for being here at this Sunday Spark Sessions. This Sunday it is 6:31 Pacific and Sunday, April 6, so wanted to give a few tips that I've been using and I'm sure you've been using. Speak Wonder. Welcome to the live. Thank you so much for joining us for the Sunday Spark sessions and again, host of the Mindset podcast and content creator of my YouTube channel at Mind Dash Sep.

So happy to have you all here. Wanted to talk about. Hey, Hello. Speak Wonder. Thanks for joining us. Wanted to talk about science behind happiness, getting out in nature. So it was kind of a dreary day today. Cloudy, rainy, all the above, windy. And I didn't really want to go outside today. But the second that I did, it was a mood enhancer. My mood improved. Although my mindset was already primed because I did my morning meditation or. Yeah, late morning meditation. 20 minutes. I'm slowly getting back up to that half an hour like I was telling you guys about in previous go lives that I've been doing.

And it's been helping. It's been making a big difference like the overall mood and everything. Right. Even when you're not feeling it, the days that I'm not feeling it, I'm still able to come out of those moments where I'm like, you know what? I'm not feeling it today. So just want to share that with you. All that like progression's progression, slow progression, fast progression, wherever you're at in your journey. And again, science behind happiness is big one is number one, like not fixating on being happy.

When we try and fixate on being happy and we're looking for things. Yeah, no, for sure. When we're, when we're like looking always looking for ways to be happy, that can be exhausting and that can be actually why we're feeling unhappy or our mood is not our moods in question. Or it's like we're not, we're not feeling like ourselves, right. Because we're fixating on it too much. We're, we're not, we're not in like that flow state. So to get to that flow state is when we're out in nature, we're not fixating on being happy, being out in nature because whether it's a sunny or sunny day or a cloudy day, it helps enhance the mood.

Because you're feeling the cool breeze on your face, you're, you are getting the Light, even though the, it might be an overcast day. And then if you've got your companion with you. Right. I always walk my dog. So if you got, if you're someone that has a pet, like you have a dog or even if you have a cat. I've seen people walking their cats too in trails and stuff like that, which is pretty cool. So it is a big mood enhancer. So number one, don't fixate on being happy. You will find happiness in those moment to moments when you're doing the things that you love.

Right. For myself, it's creating content, it's exercising, it's meditating, it's spending quality time with my spouse, it's spending quality time with my family and friends. Those things made me very happy. Right. So when I, when we do those things that make us very happy, we will, we will carry that mood and that state of mind for longer. So we sure do need, need organic and the world saturated with. Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah. And that's another thing too. So I'd say number three tip is like with happiness is like I feel like we live in such a digital world and even though I'm, I'm very, I love tech, I love technology, I like what it can do and how it can improve our lives.

But at the same time that face to face interaction, like kind of like how we're doing it, you're doing it with me right now is so powerful. And with technology, right. Is like the, the breakdown of communication over social media over on online. Right. You don't get the same connection when you do face to face. So I would say probably tip number three. So we talked about don't fixate on being happy. We talked about getting out in nature and tip number three would be go and see someone face to face like in person.

Like meet, like meet that, meet your friend for a coffee or, or take your, your partner out on a date or when it's just like you both and like maybe leave the technology at home. Like I try and do that with my, me and my wife. Like I try and just keep my phone in my pocket or I try and like because of what happened with my dad because he had a cardiac arrest event in 2020, I'm always very, I make sure one of us has our phone on us just for emergency purposes. But, but it's just important. Yeah. To take time like away from technology too and to be.

Because it helps you be more present and then we're not, you know, because that's what causes a lot of anxiety for a lot of people, it's like just being glued to our devices. So that'd be tip number four is like take a break from technology from time to time. Doesn't have to be the entire day, but just like when you're doing certain activities, like when you're going out and walking in nature. Right. Or when you're on a date or when you're doing whatever kind of activity, it's super helpful and it can make a big difference to your mood.

And then another thing I would say for another tip would be is yeah, so we talked about social interaction, we talked about getting out in nature. We talked about reducing like how much we use technology because I know a lot of us use it a lot. I would, I would also say what would be another one? Yeah, Mindfulness. Mindfulness Using meditation. Using mindfulness to slow things down, to slow, slow down the pace at which we operate, at which we work. And like data on a day to day basis. Because I've been training myself to slow down because I have a tendency just the way my brain operates, like I like to go really fast sometimes and because I think, because it's just like, you know, that's the way the world's going, the world's chaotic and I need to keep up.

And that's really not the case. It's. It's more learning for yourself, like what your baseline is and kind of staying in that kind of cadence. So you're not. Because I find if I go too quickly, then I get overwhelmed and stressed out and anxious. So learning how to navigate your personal cadence, your personal intensity, like. And the author, James Clear, who wrote Atomic Habits, which was a great. I listened to the Odd, his audiobook on. On audible back in 2022. It was a great lesson. And he talked about that, about we almost never don't have enough intensity.

Like, we always, he says we always have enough intensity, but we have sometimes too much intensity through the effort that we put into what we do. It's more just the consistency that we have to work the work on. Right. The intensity is there. It's just the consistency. Right. So I'm learning how to still get in the reps, but at the. A much lower speed. And that's taking me, it's still taking me time to adjust to that kind of mindset that I can do things with more calm, calmness and ease and tranquility and inner peace.

But I have had to create that within myself. So I just wanted to say that, hey, like, if you feel like you're you're going like a million miles a minute. I just want to say that, hey, like that's like probably tip number five is like you don't have to go at a million miles a minute. I know certain industries are very time sensitive or there's a lot of time constraints on the type of work, the nature of your work, the industry that you're in, the businesses that you operate. But there's still ways to change the cadence and lower the intensity but still get in the reps, still get in the, still stay consistent towards our goals.

So it's, it's a big thing to help, you know, that inner peace to help your brain so you're not feeling so overwhelmed. So definitely want to mention that. And yeah, I'd say those are kind of my tips for today. I'll keep this nice and brief. I know I normally go 15 minutes but some, some days, you know, I'm not going to have as many ideas but, or tools or tactics but I always have a list and I like to go by that list. And again, this is an amazing community. I know I missed a few sessions not too long ago but again I just keep getting back, bringing the content back to Cadre and the Cadre sphere.

It's a great place to be. Super uplifting, super positive and yeah and just I'm gonna start sharing this content. I've actually done like this, I've been recording this live like screen recording this live so that I'm gonna start posting onto my YouTube channel as well and make a full playlist of Cadre content so my YouTube subscribers can get over onto Cadre to join this community to enhance their mental health, their mindset and achieve peak performance towards towards their goals and ambition.

So thank you all for listening to this Sunday Spark session about the science behind happiness tools and tactics. Tips on how to find happiness in each and every one of our day to day moments. Thank you all for listening and have a great rest of your Sunday Cadre Sphere. Yeah, absolutely appreciate you tuning in there. Speak Wonder and there'll be much more content in the near future there. And stay tuned for Wealth Wednesday Wealth Wisdom Wednesday. All right, take care.