Feeling Good 101: How to Improve Your Life and Relationships

Jay Shaw explains how feeling good ripples through parenting, work, and relationships. He recommends daily habits like food choices and attention control, and notes that Black women have become his strongest audience for this material.
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I drive better when I feel good. I'm a better father when I feel good. I'm a better son when I feel good. I'm a better therapist when I feel good. My sex better when I feel good. My food tastes better when I feel good. Everything is better on the other side of me feeling good. If you think I'm gonna let something out there stop me from feeling this way, you done lost your damn mind. And I'm gonna practice feeling good. What do I need to do to feel good? What do I need to do to feel good? That should be one of the top questions of your day. What can I do today to feel good? Before you even ask what I gotta do, what's something that'll just help me feel good to start the day? Oh, you know what? I notice when I eat these types of foods, I feel better than when I eat these types of food. I think I'm gonna eat more of these types of food and less of those types of food because I like the way these types of food feel. You feel me? So you gotta start controlling that attention. But back to your original question, you start creating. Content. You start creating it, not even really for anybody specific, for you. Now the thing about it is, as you start creating, as you start creating that type of content, the people who it's made for, they'll find you. Like when I first started doing what I do, I thought that my customers would be Black men. As I got started, I realized that black women are way more interested in the stuff that I enjoy talking about than black men. So I started making my content. Well, I was making the same content I always made. I guess I was raised in a beauty shop, so maybe that's why it just resonates more with women than it does with men. But As I realized, like, wait a minute, I'm trying to get these people, I'm chasing these people with this content, they running from it, but my Black queens are all ears and they add to the conversation and they've been thinking about this stuff. I'm gonna talk to them. I'm gonna talk to who










