My weekly emails are for you if you want a transformational SHOT OF POSITIVITY that makes you think, gets you laughing, and sparks a positive change. Start each week inspired.
Why You’re Terrible at Predicting Your Own Joy (And How to Fix It)
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Hey Reader, you don't want to miss this one! 👋 Let’s be honest: most of us are "hungry shoppers" in the supermarket of life. We show up starving for purpose, without a list, and we grab whatever looks shiny in the moment—a new job, a bigger paycheck, a different neighborhood—only to find that our "cycles of dissatisfaction" are getting shorter and shorter. This week, my guest on The Story I'm Telling Myself Podcast, Suneet Bhatt, explains that we fail to find happiness because we treat it as a prediction. We think we can guess what will make us happy in three years, but we ignore the data right in front of us: our own history. The Biological Glitch Your brain is hardwired with a negativity bias. You feel negative hits two to five times more intensely than positive ones. If you don't intentionally acknowledge your point of origin and then lock in your progress, you’ll just keep raising the standard until the pressure of "what’s next" crushes your ability to feel successful. How to Take Your Power Back
Reader, this week's permission is to stop chasing the things you think you need. Make space for the things that allow you to thrive. Happiness isn't the reward for your success; it is the superpower that makes your success possible. Listen to this week's episode of my mindset podcast and start remembering what brings you joy and happiness. Catch the whole conversation here or starting tomorrow on your favorite podcast platform. Suneet shares his Happy/Proud/Not Yet Satisfied Practice in this week's Activation Guide: TSITM Ep 66 journal.pdf Enjoy & share this with a friend! |
Rita Ernst, Positivity Influencer
My weekly emails are for you if you want a transformational SHOT OF POSITIVITY that makes you think, gets you laughing, and sparks a positive change. Start each week inspired.
Hey Reader! 👋 This week I learned I've been doing it ALL WRONG. I'm talking about my stubborn, Gen X internal narrative that I should do it all myself and not ask for help. It turns out my website structure was not optimized for AI, which cut me out of AI search results. OUCH!!! Talk about professional suicide. I'm doing all of this incredible work and trying to connect with the people I can best serve, and it turns out I'm walled off from them. So I asked AI for help. Forty hours later, I...
Hey Reader! 👋 What happens when the "logical" path leads to a dead end? In this week's episode of The Story I'm Telling Myself Podcast with Rita Ernst we uncovered these valuable nuggets you need to hear. .Insight 1: Choose the Life, Not the Job One of the most striking "gems" from the conversation was guest Ann Njoroge’s shift from seeking a successful career to seeking a successful life. She argued that most people choose a job and then try to fit their life around it, but she reversed the...
Hey Reader! 👋 Yesterday's live podcast interview with Monique Helstrom was fire 🔥. She laid out a master roadmap for recognizing, owning, and transforming the choices you make that create and maintain the unwellness that will eventually lead to burnout or breakdown. Monique's best advice: Stop performing and start being. Most of us are carrying a "shame backpack" filled with the stones of every minor mistake we’ve ever hidden. We’ve been conditioned to believe our worth is tied strictly to...