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How can I be happier in Midlife? How can I make the most of this next phase - be more resilient – more creative - thrive – even, evolve? Join consultant-coach Julia Seal to explore these Midlife questions and more in a happiness-coaching journey where you can transform this next phase of your life, no matter what – no matter what your circumstances are right now... overwhelmed by the changes wrought by Menopause, looking for more meaningful work, caught in stagnant relationships or feeling anxious, unfulfilled, discontent, burnt out, overwhelmed or just, stuck! Midlife is a calling to your own metamorphosis: to let go of what’s no longer working in your life > to strengthen your Inner Power > to build your Legacy for others > to craft your deepest Wholebeing Happiness... it’s the perfect time for you to solve the puzzle of the Midlife Transition, your MiddlePause, your Midolescence (Middlescence) and embark on an exploration of living into the Best Version of you, today. Create your new Midlife Jigsaw Puzzle by exploring how to get unstuck in Midlife - discover how to coach yourself every day at home, in relationships and at work, how to purposefully manage your own mind and reconnect to your body, how to “hack” your brain with tools backed up by scientific research, how to unwind your unhelpful habits and how to take the best from the world’s wisdom on the pursuit of happiness. In addition to mini-coaching sessions and step-by-step tools, each episode helps you to take immediate action on the most impactful ways to increase your daily happiness, while supporting you on a longer reinvention coaching journey to living a purposeful and intentional life of Wholebeing Happiness in Midlife. Join Julia here on the podcast to start living into your best life, today. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" DON’T MISS an episode. SUBSCRIBE for free & have each one delivered to your device automatically. Subscribe to Julia’s Coaching Notes by eMail Subscribe on your favorite podcast player – search for ‘Happiness Matters in Midlife’ to finds us Find Everything at: http://www.happiness-matters.coach

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Series 1 – Puzzling Your Happiness. Discover how your Happiness is actually just like Puzzling and how by enjoying the current Covid-19 puzzle craze you can learn to create your picture of Happiness in Midlife for yourself - it’s all about your crafted version of Happiness and Success - your own Happiness:Success formula! I take you on a walk through the last 14 months and 56 episodes of coaching here on the podcast – so you can see how we’ve explored everything to do with how you’re Defining your Happiness, how you’re measuring it and tracking it and how you’re Visioning your Future. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Balance & your Right to Disconnect Two big questions: The great Work:Life Divide: what is the debate really about? Work:Life Balance: does it even exist & do we want it? Explore what’s most useful to your own happiness & success with coach Julia Seal. We learn from Prof Jon Kabat-Zinn and poet Jenny Joseph, Superwoman, #TheRightToDisconnect & the Happiness Parenting Gap to decide what artisanal unbalance we might want instead! All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – How Menopause & Work can evolve your Happiness Join Julia Seal exploring Menopause knowledge while exploring more about how to coach yourself, using free tools for 4 types of negative emotions. Review physical, emotional symptoms & cultural differences to discover why Menopause is your best kept secret to happiness, to evolve & fuel the changes you want in your Midlife. Consider work policies to ensure we’re effectively manage Menopause in today's multi-cultural workplace and then, jump start your own life with Julia's blog:The Menopause Midlife Bardo. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Your Superhero, Shokunin version of Happiness. Review your self-coaching through Series 1 and what you’ve decided is your version of "happy & successful, no matter what". Sense-check it against the world of artisanal craftsmanship, the spirit of Shokunin, your own Inner Power & coach Julia Seal's free coaching tool, The Happiness Checklist. Tap into inspiration from Wonder Woman, the WHO One World:Together at Home concert, Damien Hurst's rainbows, Smile Awhile poetry, Thomas Jefferson & Wonder Woman. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Smiles, silly hats & coffee... This week we celebrate World Smile Day, International Coffee Day and Mad Hatters' Day! Learn more about what these three days are all about with coach Julia Seal and how you can use them for your self-coaching. "Do an act of kindness, help one person smile" comes alive where you can  apply all that you've learnt about Smiley, smiling, smiZIng and coaching yourself in your daily life. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Coaching in a Nutshell, how it all comes together. The world needs people who coach themselves beyond their fears & towards kindness & contribution every day! Discover how to respond to a crisis, like COVID-19, so you can be of service to your family, friends & colleagues as well as a contributor to the greater good. With Coach Julia Seal, learn step-by-step tools to coach yourself through spiraling thoughts & emotions, using Neptune's Trident, the Wuhan foot-tap and Copenhagen pandas to guide you. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – My Best Coaching Tool for toxicity in your relationships. Explore conflict in your Midlife relationships, looking at what to do when we use toxic behaviours. Discover your 5 afflictive emotions while walking with me through my 3-step coaching process to support you in difficult relationships. Find out why Breathing is so transformative in your daily self-coaching and what "Taking The High Road" has got to do with accessing your Inherent Wisdom behind your Afflictive Emotions. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – 2 Powerful Coaching Tools to get you started on your coaching journey. In this episode, start the journey of coaching your Midlife Unhappiness and your negative emotions by pushing Charon's boat out into the River of Misery and jumping in with Wally (or Waldo) joining us. Expand and explore all your negative thoughts and emotions, all the obstacles blocking your happiness and success. I offer you some immediate relief from the discomfort of your negative emotions with 2 of my most powerful FREE Coaching Tools – learn how to clear out the clutter in your brain and create spaciousness with breath. All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Special days to practice coaching yourself, bringing our tools to life These 8 Episodes show you how to coach yourself no matter what the day is – from World Smile Day, Coffee Day, Mad Hatter’s Day and Pay It Forward Day to this week’s focus on Fun at Work Day. These sessions bring my coaching tools into your everyday life where every moment is an opportunity to practice your self-coaching in Midlife. Special days to practice coaching yourself & bringing our tools to life

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Clarifying Concepts: Q&As (2) In these 4 Q&A episodes, I take the most popular questions and explore them more deeply. I look at Work:Life Balance, the shame of Emotional Immaturity, how Employee Engagement applies to you and easy ways to start a meditation habit. The focus this week is the Q&A episdoe all about the interplay between Happiness & Success in your Midlife and when to use outward or inward measures. Clarifying concepts: Q&As (2) End of Series 1 > deep dive Q&As #1.42.Q&A Employee Engagement – the same as Happiness? #1.43.Q&A – Your Happiness vs Success Formula #1.44.Q&A – Meditation tips, Habit hacks & EQ shame #1.45.Q&A – Work:Life Balance – the great divide! All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Clarifying Concepts: Q&As (1) In 7 Q&A episodes, I answer a variety of your questions, clarifying the core coaching concepts & tools. It’s your chance to find out how other Midlife women have applied the insights from the podcast into their own lives – from understanding Buffering, using the 2 degree shift and framing to when you might need therapy vs coaching.   The focus episode this week is the Q&A from the mini-coaching journey on your Negative Emotions. Here I look at your Inner Power & Powerlessness: what to do to balance power and when to intervene in unhealthy conflict and toxic behaviours at work and home. Clarifying concepts: Q&As (1) Core Coaching episodes #1.1.Q&A How Happy are you at work, really? #1.2.Q&A Your Snakes & Ladders Journey #1.3. Q&A - Where do you want to be? 10/10 #1.4.Q&A Going deeper into your 10/10 Happiness #1.5.Q&A What's Stopping your Happiness? #1.6Q&A What's the Toughest Thing for you? Coaching your Negative Emotions Series #1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today     ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – The Science of happiness In 8 episodes, we expand the 4 leading academic models of Happiness, looking at what constructs they have included in their definitions and why - as well as the detail of each of the key ingredients of happiness & success. Today’s spotlight is on the work by Dr Tal Ben-Shahar  - creator of Harvard’s most popular course in its history & one of my own teachers - who is the first to develop a field of studies dedicated to an inter-disciplinary academic approach of Happiness. Find out more about SPIRE Wholebeing and how to expand your own Physical & Intellectual Wholebeing. Deepening your Happiness Definitions: The Science of Happiness #1.33 The Science of your Happiness #1.34 Science of Happiness: PERMA #1.36 Science of Happiness: GGSC #1.37 – The Science of Happiness: SPIRE & Wholebeing #1.38 – The Science of Happiness at Work: PERK #1.39 - Business Consulting & the Science of Happiness #1.42 Deep dive: Happiness + Engagement #1.43 Deep dive: Happiness + Success All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE     Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE     "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1 ALL episodes, show notes, free tools, subscriptions,etc: We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! You can: SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS – Using your Negative Emotions to create Happiness This mini-coaching journey of 17 episodes addresses how Unhappiness shows up in your life and gives you ideas of how you can choose to use it to fuel your growth, evolve yourself and expand how you define and vision your future Happiness. I look at the Balance of Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, Buffering, Anti-Fragility, Resilience and Evolution. I offer you a simple yet powerful way to start Allowing your Feelings: the actual process of FEELING and processing your negative emotions. This is a wonderful coaching skill that you can practice over and over again through these months of the Covid-19 Pandemic - there are so many opportunities to do AND this is such a core skill in your self-coaching toolkit - there really is no better time! To along with these episodes, download: Overview to Negative Emotions Coaching Journey Quotes to inspire you on this Journey Along the way, we’ll spend time with Dr Seuss, Carl Jung, David Wyhte, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Moore and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross – not to mention: pandas, Charon the River Guide, Wally/Waldo, Guy Fawkes and Cowardly Lion! These are sessions rich with insights and some of my best coaching tools that I trust will help you along the journey of How to FEEL better. #1.17 – Unhappy is the story of Happy #1.18 – Unhappy, what to do about it? #1.19 – Coaching your Unhappiness #1.20 – Negative Emotions & Emotional Intelligence #1.21 – Emotional Immaturity & your Happiness Wisdom #1.22 – Happiness is 50:50, always! #1.23 – Are you Buffering your happiness away? #1.24 – Are you Anti-fragile? Courageous? #1.25 – Your next step, Evolution! #1.26 – How to FEEL better now! #1.26.Q&A – How to FEEL better now! #1.27 – Coach Yourself on Fun at Work Day! #1.28 – Menopause at Work: coaching your negative emotions #1.29 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 1) #1.30 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 2) #1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others #1.32 – Discomfort change = Happiness! #1.28 – Menopause at Work: coaching your negative emotions #1.29 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 1) #1.30 – Toxic emotions at work – what to do (Part 2) #1.31.Q&A – Ending Powerlessness in you & others #1.32 – Discomfort change = Happiness!   All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" Find EVERYTHING at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach/podcast-subscribe1

We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! You can: SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS - Smiling & Laughing We revisit Episode #1.8 which is the kick-off episode to the next 9 Insight coaching sessions focused around Smiling, Laughing and Self-Smizing. Join me to explore how to use these topics to trigger your brain and expose those deeply held beliefs about your Happiness & Unhappiness. We also look into the relationship with yourself and how your Inner Critic shows up, especially when you do this coaching work! This includes discovering more about the Duchenne Smile, Gelotology,  the happiest poem ever,  and what Emojis and the iconic Yellow Smiley Face have to do with your happiness! #1.8: Insight – What’s behind Smiley? #1.9: Emojis – your happiness at work? #1.10 - Smile Awhile #1.11: Insight – Laughter for work success #1.12 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 1) #1.13 Self-Smizing Changes Everything (part 2) #1.14 Q&A - Everything about Self-Smizing #1.15 - World Smile Day with coffee & Mad Hatters! #1.16 - Insight: Pay-It-Forward (1)   All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE Find everything at our website: https://happiness-matters.coach "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"

We’re taking a short break between series – this gives YOU a chance to catch-up on past episodes & ME a chance to sleep in! I’ve been up every morning at 5am for 16 months creating The Happiness-Matters Podcast :-) But, I'm not leaving you without any coaching – in each week of the break we’ll revisit the go-to episodes for Series 1: Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness. Looking forward to being with you again in Series 2 - all about managing our brains for happiness & success in Midlife! You can: SUBSCRIBE to my weekly coaching by email JOIN ME on Facebook today ---------------------- Series 1: THIS WEEK’s FOCUS - Core Coaching episodes We revisit Episode #1.7 which is a wrap up of the CORE COACHING episodes #1.1 - #1.6. Listen to these to get the most out of Defining, Assessing & Visioning your happiness coaching journey. These are your go-to episodes if you want an overview of what we’ve been doing over the last year – if you want a refresher or if you’re new and you want a quick catch up. I walk you through the basics of Defining - Assessing - Visioning your Happiness in these 6 episodes - here you can create your own Happiness Coaching Journey. There’s lots of coaching, wisdom & fun in these early sessions - I even subject you to my singing...  we spend time with The Dalai Lama, Dr Tal Ben-Shahar, Harry Potter and Odysseus not to mention Hello Kitty, Dug the Talking Dog & Coke-a-Cola! #0 – Welcome to the very first Happiness-Matters podcast! #1.1 How happy are you really? #1.1.Q&A How Happy are you at work, really? #1.2 Your happiness “snakes-and-ladders” journey! #1.2.Q&A Your Snakes & Ladders Journey #1.3 Where do you want to be 10/10 #1.3. Q&A - Where do you want to be? 10/10 #1.4 Going Deeper into your 10/10 Happiness #1.4.Q&A Going deeper into your 10/10 Happiness #1.5 – What’s stopping your Happiness & Success at work? #1.5.Q&A What's Stopping your Happiness? #1.6 – What’s the toughest thing for you? #1.6Q&A What's the Toughest Thing for you? #1.7 – Series 1 Coaching – it’s a wrap! All 56 podcast episodes, free tools & show notes HERE. Overview Guide to Series 1 HERE. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"

It’s a special episode today, the end of our Series 1 coaching on Defining, Assessing & Visioning your Happiness in Midlife! Coach Julia Seal takes a walk through the last 14 months and 56 episodes of coaching here on the podcast – so you can see how we’ve explored everything to do with how you’re Defining your Happiness, how you’re measuring it and tracking it and how you’re Visioning your Future. Discover how your Happiness is actually just like Puzzling and how by enjoying the current Covid-19 puzzle craze you can learn to create your picture of Happiness in Midlife for yourself - it’s all about your crafted version of Happiness and Success - your own Happiness:Success formula! Find out which are the Core Coaching episodes, your go-to episodes if you want an overview of what we’ve been doing over the last year – if want a refresher or if you’re new and you want a quick catch up. Then, find out more about the three Bonus, Insight mini-coaching sessions that add depth and richness to your coaching journey: Smiling & Laughter + Our negative emotions & Unhappiness + diving deep into the Science of Happiness. Download our free Series 1 Coaching Overview to help you navigate these episodes as well as the Happiness Wisdom Concepts, Question & Answer feedback sessions, Coaching Tools and Special Days coaching that bring all the concepts and tools to life. Also don’t forget to join Julia and discover the next step in your Midlife Happiness Journey – in honour of The Dalai Lama and Nelson Mandela. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/ Subscribe to Julia's blog Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/

We’re going “Back to the Future” with Doc and Marty – where there are no roads (yet) with Coach Julia Seal. We go backwards and forwards through time, between your Current Self and your Future Self in order to to explore the possibilities of your Future Self and your happiness and success in Midlife! I revisit two free Coaching Tools to bring this time travel to life: Your Future Vision and Your Future Self Journey. Your coaching version of the sporty DeLorean travelling at 88mph! Walking through these two tools brings us to a deeper exploration of who your Future Self is and who you want to be in this #NewNormal world. It’s also an opportunity to rethink your New Year’s Resolutions mid-year. Then, by going into detail on how to use our brain’s Reticular Activating System and the power of our mind-body connection through Olympic visualisation, we can bring our Future Self to life and change the reality of our futures, every day from today. We go step-by-step together on how to do this. Also, draw some future life inspiration from two very special birthdays this month: The Dalai Lama turns 85 and it’s Madiba Day, a day of donating 67 minutes to help others inspired by the legacy of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. “Great Scott!” "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/ Subscribe to Julia's blog Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/

We’ve heard it before: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” – join coach Julia Seal to explore the truth behind the misquote and what it means for our self-coaching. Discover the 3 ways researchers assess our Happiness and Success and our Happiness at Work, including measuring our smiles, saliva and even, our urine! Also, find out what to watch for in your measurement of choice, when it’s not useful to you and how to watch out for issues of bias – gender, race, language, culture and age. Julia outlines her free 8-steps Coaching Tool, The Happiness Ladder, that’s based on the Cantril Ladder of Life and used by Gallup for the United Nation’s Annual World Happiness Report. We explore how to use the Tool to support our own definitions of Happiness, our personally crafted Artisanal versions of Happiness, our own Happiness:Success Formulas! Then, join Julia every Monday and Friday to use The Happiness Ladder – Thank-Goodness-Its-Monday and FriYay – and learn how to use The Happiness Ladder as a navigation system in your self-coaching every day. This is the start of creating your own Assessment Tool based on everything you’ve discovered about your own version of Happiness in Series 1 (see webinar at www.happiness-matters.coach). Also, find out about another 8 tools you can use to measure your Happiness and Happiness at Work – from the PERMA Profiler to the UK Govt Office of Sciences Foresight Programme > long surveys, quick quizzes, apps, traffic lights, trackers and most fun of all, emoji mood tracking! "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/ Subscribe to Julia's blog Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/

We take a deep dive into one of our biggest influences on our current Happiness and our future Success – our Past! How is your PAST influencing your Happiness & Success in Midlife? Are you using it FOR you or AGAINST you? Are you going through your day with regret, bitterness, sadness about things that have happened to you – do you find yourself wishing things were different or that you “should have done...”? You might well be sabotaging your own Happiness and Success right now – and your Future, without you even realising it! Julia revisits our Coaching Tool – the Snakes & Ladders Gameboard to  helps you to uncover how your past thinking is affecting your future. We use it to uncover all kinds of things that might be holding us back – our beliefs about happiness and success, all the thoughts we have about our life and how well we’ve lived our lives as well as those inner belief system about ourselves! Explore 3 unusual ways to think about your Past that might help you unlock some immediate Happiness right now – we use Divorce and Retrenchment in Midlife to illustrate this perspective, along with musicians Led Zeppelin, LL Cool J, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga & Bruce Springsteen! Then, we apply 3 coaching tips to turn your Past into a powerful tool for your future – 3 steps to take to unlock your Happiness and Success, to put your past behind you and to setup your Past to fuel your Future. "May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!" All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/ Subscribe to Julia's blog Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/