It’s Day 8 of the 26-day boost for Klaudia Mitura’s new book, “The Alphabet of Happiness”! Today’s letter is H for Habits.
Klaudia highlights research showing that 40% of our happiness comes from the habits we practice every day—meaning we have real power to shape our wellbeing.
She encourages listeners to pick one happiness-boosting habit and make the first step as easy as possible, like keeping water at your desk or placing your running shoes by the door. Small, simple actions pave the way for lasting positive change.
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Hello everyone and welcome back. My name is Klaudia Mitura. I'm a work psychologist and certified chief happiness officer.
I'm celebrating the launch of my new book, the Alphabet of Happiness by bringing you 26 days of science backed happiness principles, one for every letter of the Alphabet. I really hope that you're enjoying all the letters so far.
I'm really trying to share practical tips in under five minutes designed to give your mood a real boost. And as you know, this challenge is our official countdown to the big launch party on 31st of October, the Science Museum in London.
I really hope you'll be joining me to celebrate the Alphabet of Happiness today actually is one of my favorite letters. H for habits.
It's my favorite letter because research by incredible positive psychologist Sonia Lubomirsky shows that 40% of our happiness depends on the habits we repeat daily. And I think that is a fantastic news because that means we can absolutely influence our happiness.
Spending our time on building happiness, boosting habits that can help us to sustain positive well being even in the most challenging situation. It's the best thing that we can do. I love that research.
It really gives me lots of hope when it comes to how much influence and control we have over our happiness. And in the Alphabet of Happiness, I cover an entire toolkit on how to develop well being habits that that stick.
Because you will know from your own experience that often we have good intentions, but we may not be sustaining the right habits. But for today, I really want you to identify one habit. It can be very simple.
It can be, I want to drink more water, I want to be writing, I want to feel grateful more often, I want to reconnect with someone, whatever it is. And I would like you to make the first easy step towards your habit and really make the first step very easy.
Because the less effort our brain needs to put in taking the first step, the more chances we have of sustaining that specific behavior. That means making the first step towards positive habits as easy as possible of applying the path of least resistance.
So again, if you want to drink more water, have a bottle at your desk. Want to start a gratitude journal? Have it next to your bed so when you wake up, it's there. You can straight away write some things down.
Want to run every day or exercise every day? Have your sports gear next to your front door. Making the first step easy makes you more likely also to stick to the new habit.
Because we started, we are more likely to continue. So if you give this a try, I would love to hear how it goes.
Remember, if you want to spread some joy about happiness, boosting habits and the science of happiness, tag a friend in your post about the Alphabet of Happiness for a chance for them to win one of the three signed copies of my book. Remember to tag me as well in that post and I wish you a wonderful day and I see you soon for the next letter. Bye.
