EP164 Why Wishing Happiness For Others Leads to a Happier You

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Transcript

Episode 164

[INTRODUCTION]

KC:

Welcome to the Business of Life Podcast. My name is Keith Callahan, your host. And if it’s your first time on the show, welcome. Great to have you here. And if you’re returning, welcome back as always.

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All right. Let’s dive right into today’s topic, which is wishing people happiness. This is so insanely simple. And I want to explain to you a few different ways that I use – that I do this. So a lot of people say that I can’t meditate. And this is actually taken from a meditation technique. And I’m going to give you three different examples.

The first is when you’re going about life, literally taking 10 seconds. You can do this right now. Think of one person and like one person that you really – that you like and just think about them and just close your eyes. If you’re driving, don’t close your eyes. You can do this with your eyes open too. And just wish them to be happy. All right. That’s it. Now, do it for one more person. Just think of another person and just wish them to be happy.

You can’t help but get in a better mood and feel lighter. This is an insanely simple technique. So that’s one thing.

Another thing that I was told and I was taught by one of my spiritual teachers is whenever you’re going through a hard time, pray for someone else. So it’s the same concept as wishing someone else to be happy. What it’s doing is it’s taking us out of our own ego, our own mind, our own neurosis and just wishing somebody else happiness. It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.

I’ve started this new practice of – I have a hard time paying attention. And sometimes with the kids, I’m elsewhere. And I’ve started this new practice of whenever they’re talking to me like they’re so – my kids are young and they want to talk and they want to explain and they’re just getting so detailed and they’re so animated and they’re so excited and I want to make sure that I’m catching it. And here’s a way that I found an easy way to catch it.

And so, I listen but as I’m listening, I’m just wishing this child just happiness. Nothing else. Like no more complicated than that. And it brings a smile to my face. It helps me to appreciate their story more. It helps us to connect on a deeper level.

And when you’re doing this, people don’t even have to know you’re doing it. You can be walking down the street. You can be sitting in your car. You can be at class. You can take a break every hour and do the 10-second one that I just showed you, wishing people happiness.

What if you did that for 10 seconds every hour for the rest of your life? How much would your life improve? You want something that’s going to drastically improve your life? Start focusing on wishing other people happiness.

All right. Have a beautiful, beautiful day. And super corny but I have to do it. I wish you happiness. 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.

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[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.

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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.

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