Jared Akers

HTBH 007: Relationships, Effective Communication and Control Issues

by Jared Akers

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Effective communication is vital in relationships. But how do control issues play into communication? We discuss the importance of getting to our root emotions and how they play into effective communication and control.

Emily shares an experience with a friend and how her (friends) emotions were making it hard to communicate with another. Specifically, instead of trying to control the situation by giving advice, try sharing our emotions and/or fears.

People change when they want to and more effective when it’s their idea. It’s better to lead by example, attraction rather than promotion.

I share my confusion about artificial flavors and blowing my own mind. [Read more…]

How to Be Happy at Work, 7 Tips on Finding Happiness in Work (regardless of your job)

by Jared Akers

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie

Last weekend while taking a shower (yes, I take them during the week also) I was thinking about a topic to write about this week. For some reason the idea of being happy with the work you do (regardless of what that is) popped into my head.

Shortly after I was online and received an email from someone who was reading my post on The Shift by Dr. Wayne Dyer. They shared, “I want to get a better job but I can’t find one. I don’t enjoy the job I am doing right now.”

So I knew I was meant to write about this topic. I love signs (or you may call them coincidences). Honestly, these happen to me all the time. I think they were always there, guiding me through life, its just that today I’m self-aware, emotionally connected, and spiritually fit so I’m acutely aware of them.

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HTBH 006: Is Happiness Really a Choice?

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You hear a lot of people suggest that happiness is a choice. Is it really that simple? Emily and I take a closer look at this ideology and some of the obstacles that may prevent us from simply making a choice to be happy.

Some topics discussed in this episode:

Simply making a choice to be happy isn’t always that easy. There are many things, such as past experiences that make it difficult to believe that we can be happy. Many times we have so much crap running around in our heads (fear, guilt, remorse, etc.) that it’s not possible to just dismiss those things and be happy.

I share about my journey in finding my authentic self and how that led to find what was missing; a love and emotional connectedness with self. Emily points out that being okay with self first, enables us to try new things in life knowing we’re not always going to succeed, but that’s the beauty, being able to try many things. Once we begin to be happy with self, we’re then capable to make the choice to be happy. [Read more…]

HTBH 005: Managing Expectations

by Jared Akers

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In this session of the How to Be Happy Podcast, Emily and I sit down to discuss managing expectations. Everything comes back to being happy with who you are and willing to accept life on life’s terms.

“Wearing life like a loose garment.”

“Expectations are resentments in training.”

“Today’s expectations are tomorrow’s resentments.”

Some topics you’ll hear in this episode: [Read more…]

5 Tips on How to Be Content with Life

by Jared Akers

I had a reader contact me recently and ask about contentment or how to “just be.”

Emily and I thought this would be a great topic for a Podcast, so that may be on its way as well. In the meantime, I thought I’d write up something about it.

I’m not a Zen master or yoga instructor, and I like things that are practical, actionable, and sustainable. Three words I thought of while sitting in the Best Buy parking lot yesterday. This is totally cool because I realized that’s my mission. To provide tips and techniques on happiness based on real life experiences that are practical, actionable and sustainable.

A quick moment to share something… I’m not doing this alone. I certainly do not know everything or have the market cornered on happiness. What I do have is a proven method that works for me and I’ve seen it work in others. It’s not rocket science and it’s all actually pretty simple, but not easy. [Read more…]

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