S2 Episode 14 - The Six Steps to Happiness

Purpose Highway®

HIGHLIGHTS

06:25 Mistaking success markers for happiness is a mental shortcut

10:15 Outcome-based culture: Momentum can make us prisoners of our own goals

20:24 Happiness has many synonyms and people always do what makes them happy

26:34 Realizing the irrelevance of everything makes you free to pursue your happiness

28:59 Domestic violence strips away agency and Laura's glimmer strength saved her

37:47 Self-belief lets the fear die and lets you go beyond what is safe and familiar

46:57 Honesty, transparency, and kindness to oneself is strength

52:46 People learning to love themselves has the power to change generations of self-sabotaging thinking

56:48 Connect with Laura and get her book

QUOTES

07:31 "We love mental shortcuts. The subject of happiness doesn't really have mental shortcuts, which is why we go for the only available probable shortcut, which is wrong, of the symbols of what we think happiness is which is the success markers."

18:37 "Do you want that because you don't love yourself and you think that's the only way that you'll be worthy of self-love? What would happen if you loved yourself? Would you still want those things? Probably not. It's an invitation to know yourself, master yourself, and then powerfully choose what you truly want."

24:45 "When we constantly succumb to fear and safety-based obsessions and limits and worrying about avoidance of negative outcomes, you know what we're doing? We're actively choosing not to pursue joyful outcomes."

36:11 "In the moment that we realized that we are indeed sovereign, then we start to choose differently and we can show up with greater love for ourselves and for those around us, because what we see in the world actually changes."

38:26 "Self-trust and self-belief is everything. When we have unshakable self-belief... I can find myself in a crappy relationship and I know that I have the power to leave because I can handle whatever happens. I know that I can start a business because I know that if things go sideways and I lose my shirt, I'll recover and I'll be fine."

43:03 "When we can appreciate the temporary nature of things, I think it really puts us in a really powerful position to have more of that agency because we realized that the scary stuff, it's not permanent."

To find out more about Laura and get her book, please see the links below.

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lldibenedetto/
• Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Six-Habits-Practical-Bringing-Dreams/dp/1734704330
• Website - https://www.thesixhabits.com/

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