It’s here! The first session of the How to Be Happy Podcast with Jared and Emily Akers. You may download the podcast to your computer or listen to it here on JaredAkers.com. Additionally, I will be submitting the podcast feed to iTunes soon, so you’ll be able to subscribe through there as well – hopefully [...]
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I love things that make me think. The ABC TV show, “Brothers & Sisters” is my wife and I’s show. That and the TV series House, which after about a year of watching recorded re-runs I think we’ve almost seen them all. A few weeks ago on Brothers & Sisters, Nora Walker, the matriarch of [...]
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You hear people say it all the time: “Everything Happens for a Reason” This saying, or idea, intrigues me. My logical brain (which I try not to entertain too much) views it as a tool for dealing with acceptance, although this tool only works when we choose to use it ourselves. Most of us know [...]
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It’s a rainy day in 2004 and my fiance’ and I are sitting at an intersection waiting for the light to change. I can see our destination across the intersection; a loan office where a check is waiting for our engagement ring. My gut is telling me this isn’t the right thing to be doing [...]
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Want to sign your relationship’s death certificate? Then keep trying to “get back to the way things were.” I hear people say “I wish we could just get back to the way we were” all the time, I’ve been guilty of it myself—a long time ago. It’s dangerous and it’s sentencing your relationship to failure; [...]
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Most fear is an illusion. False Evidence Appearing Real. The things that I fear are created in my mind. Most often, they are based in fear of loosing something I have, or not getting something I think I want. I stress the word think here… more often than not, what I want is not what [...]
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At 12:34 P.M. Friday, April 24th 2009, Juniper Pearl came into the world at 7lbs 7oz. My beautiful wife Emily’s son and his wife had a perfect baby girl. So yes, that would make me a 38 year old grandpa. It just doesn’t get any better than this. A few years ago, prior to meeting [...]
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About Jared AkersJared is a coach, writer, educator and tester of the impossible. He's an avid diver and has been developing a life of happiness with his wife for the better part of the last decade. You can find out more about Jared here.