Workout: Find Happiness

You can do happiness. My favorite metaphor of my entire life, it's still the most important driving metaphor of my lifetime. In every area of my life. This is the most important metaphor that I've learned and I've sort of owned in my lifetime, and that is this. The power plant does not have energy. It generates energy. So in the same way we don't have happiness, we don't have joy, we don't even have energy. We are taking energy or just consuming it and letting it land on us. And we are transferring or transforming that energy into what we want to experience and transmit in the world. And that's why I said yesterday, we have to be responsible for the energy we bring into our families. You really have to manage your energy, right? How many of you have ever been in a negative mood and it completely set off somebody in a way you did not anticipate? You know why? That person did not have the tools to deal with your energy. How many of you ever been that person? Someone's energy completely set you off, right? We've all been there. But the thing is, you gotta learn how to deal with that. You have to self will how you want to feel. You have to self will how you want to feel. So you have to be very conscious of your energy and self will it. That's why I started teaching myself. I gotta learn to bring the joy. And I would say it over and over and over to myself. I'm like, look, if I'm gonna bring energy into a space, it's going to be Jo or it's going to be love. And for me, it's the same thing. So I wanted for me to make sure that no matter what I did, that was the energy I was gonna bring into space. So I started training myself on that with my phone triggers. I started training myself on that by just deciding, okay, every time I walk through a door, what's the feeling I wanna bring into here? One of my doorway triggers. When I walk through a door, I say to myself, I am entering this room as a happy man ready to serve. I am entering this room as a happy man ready to serve. So let's return to this conversation about happiness. If you have not had that role of happiness, get therapeutic support. But also, at the same time, start practices that make you happier. And you have to teach your family to start practices. It can be simple as a Friday night dinner where you say to the kids, what made you happy this week? You need to start giving the vocabulary of happy to your families. And these little triggers that you set up in your life, it makes you more intentional. Those little reminders, they mean so much to us, we forget to do them. But your happiness is important. Your happiness is very important. Just like your self identity is important. Just like how you want to treat people, all of that is important, incredibly important. We just forget to set up those triggers. How many of you could do a better job setting up your life for some happiness at this stage of your life? Yeah. To the person left, right, shake them, say you deserve to be happy. To do it. You just have to be a little more intentional. Sam.