EP134 Stop Trying to Be Happy with Superficial Things

BOL 134

Transcript

Episode 134

[INTRODUCTION]

KC:

Welcome to The Business of Life Podcast. My name is Keith Callahan, your host. If today you’re on here for the first time, welcome. Great to have you if you’re returning. Awesome to have you back and we’re just – we’re always grateful here that you’re here listening and there are many times we get people that ask, “Is there anything we can do to support the show?”

The number one thing you can do, if you haven’t done so yet, is subscribe. So click on the Subscribe button, whether you’re on iTunes or wherever it is that you consume all of your podcast information. Subscribing is a huge, huge help for us.

All right. Let’s jump into it. So today I want to talk about this concept that if you’re not enough without the thing, you’re not going to be enough with. If you’re not happy without the thing, you’re not going to be enough with.

A lot of people believe that if they lose their weight, then they’re going to be happy. If they get the job, then they’re going to be happy. If they had a different relationship, then they’re going to be happy. If they didn’t have this issue or that issue, then they’re going to be happy.

The reality is, the truth is, the universal law is that if you’re not happy now, once XYZ happens, you’re not going to be happy either. You may get a little bit of temporary happiness, a little bit of excitement, a little bit of joy. But you’re not going to have that long term happiness, just that long term peace.

So as human beings, we don’t have the ability to just jump in and get something that’s going to bring us long term happiness. It just doesn’t work that way.

As long as your basic human meads – human meads. As long as your human meads! As long as your basic human needs are met, the level of happiness isn’t going to get much different with getting something external, getting the next job, having a child, getting a spouse, getting married, getting the car, getting the house.

Happiness, long term happiness, long term peace is an internal job. So if you have something that you’re waiting to happen and you’re excited for it to happen because you think things are going to be different when it does, I just – I hate to burst your bubble. And this is one of those things that it’s hard. Like, a lot of people that are holding on to that may listen to this, if you’re one of them. This is a hard thing to listen to and then change your attitude. But I’m telling you that getting something isn’t going to bring you long term happiness. Happiness is an internal job.

You have to be happy without the thing to be happy with the thing. Does that make sense? You have to be happy before you have the thing to be happy when you actually get it.

All right. Have a beautiful, beautiful day. Be happy. All right. Peace!

[FINAL MESSAGE]

KC: Hey, Keith here, and today I have a free gift for you. Listen this free gift is a list of the 12 most influential books that I’ve ever read. These are the books that have helped me to create the mindset, learn the philosophies, learn the skills to really create this big, beautiful, life that we’re living now.

I read a crazy amount of books, I really do. I’ve probably read thousands of books and these are the top 12 books that – they’re the ones that I go to, they’re the ones that I work with over, and over, and over again. They are highlighted, outlined, dog-eared. And I put this list together for you because I want it to be a shortcut.

I don’t want you to have to – you don’t have to go out and read the thousands and thousands of books. These are the 12 that I highly recommend. I have a detailed review for each book, explaining why I recommend them, why I like them, when I worked with them in my life, what part of my life they helped me to improve.

So I put this together for you, and made it super each for you to get this list. All you have to do is send a text to the number 33444 and then in the body of that text, type in “12books” with no space. So that’s the number “12books”. Again, send the text message to the number, address it to 33444 and then type in “12books” as the message and just send that. And that’ll get you setup to receive those top 12 most influential books that have had the biggest impact on my life.

[SPONSOR MESSAGE]

KC: Today’s episode is brought to you by our sister podcast, All About Beachbody Coaching. So All About Beachbody Coaching really allows us to do this podcast without having all those annoying commercials in the beginning for you. So All About Beachbody Coaching, the Beachbody business that Amy and I run, actually funds this podcast.

So yes, it does cost money to run this podcast, we do not charge you anything, we don’t throw in commercials or anything like that, it really is, it’s funded by our business and by our other podcast, All About Beachbody Coaching. And for me, I’m just eternally grateful for this opportunity because it’s allowed me to really create the life that I love to live.

It’s given me the opportunity to do what I want, when I want, with who I want, and even deeper than that, it’s allowed me to help others to create the same for themselves. It’s allowed me to help hundreds of other people become part time or full time Beachbody coaches, to leave that corporate 9 to 5 job and create passive income in their lives.

And really there’s nothing like that. It’s cool when you have success, it’s so much more rewarding when you help others. So I mention this or a few reasons, the first reason is, that’s actually the way that I work with people and mentor people. I don’t do anything outside of Beachbody coaching because I know that it’s such a powerful life changing tool.

So if you’re curious about working with me, interested in working one-on-one, interested in creating the type of life that you wanna live, I suggest swinging over there. The other reason is, even if somebody’s just curious, like you’ve heard about Beachbody, you know there’s a lot of Beachbody coaches out there. Maybe some of them you get a little annoyed with.

It really dives into what this business is really about, which is life transformation. So if you’re just curious, swing over there. And then the other piece is, if you’re really considering becoming a Beachbody coach, I highly, highly recommend you listen to that first.

Alright, much love guys. Again, that is the All About Beachbody Coaching Podcast, our sister podcast.

ANNOUNCER: Thank you for listening to the Business of Life Podcast. Apply what you learned today and you’ll be one step closer to creating the life you love to live.

[END]

© 2016 The Business of Life