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How to Be Happy and Live Fearless by Overcoming Fear, Stress, and Anxiety
This is no fluff, straight to the point, action based information that can change your life. To be happy and start living fearless, you only need to know this: You’re not here to win, you’re here to...
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5 Can’t Miss Tips on Travel and Life
Emily and I, Waimea Canyon, Kauai 2008 As someone who loves traveling, I’ve discovered a few secrets on how to be happy in travel and why it’s an important aspect of happiness—at least for me and my...
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How to Start Running When You’re Out of Shape
If you’re out of shape, or looking for how to start running from scratch, read on. I was really out of shape for years and hated running. But with a little time and small steps, anything is possible....
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5 Ways to Be Happy Whether You Want to or Not
Me on Kauai 2008 If you want to be happy in life, you have to be happy with who you are; whether you want to or not. You have to live with YOU everyday, so you might as well learn how to get along....
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Be Happy with Yourself, Maybe it’s Time to Change
If you’re not happy with life, then you’re probably not happy with yourself. Maybe it’s time to change. Do you know someone who is constantly complaining about something or the entire universe just...
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HTBH 001: Happiness in a Relationship When There’s Been Infidelity
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...
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How to be Happy Alone, 12 Simple Actions to Make Yourself Happy
Are you wondering how to be happy single or alone? I’ve been through a couple iterations of aloneness during different periods of my life. I refer to them as alone in a room full of people and alone in...
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HTBH 002: Tips on Dating
Welcome to the How to Be Happy Podcast Episode #2. In this session Emily and I talk about our dating history and how we first met and some tips and experiences on dating. Some topics you’ll hear in...
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HTBH 003: Nurturing Relationships
Welcome to the How to Be Happy Podcast Episode #3. In this session Emily and I talk about nurturing relationships. Some topics you’ll hear in this episode: Keeping the Love (relationship) Alive In the...
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HTBH 004: Coping with Death
In this episode of the How to Be Happy Podcast, Emily and I discuss death. But before you make a decision on how morbid this sounds, have a listen. Some topics you’ll hear in this episode: Dealing with...
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5 Tips on How to Be Content with Life
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...
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HTBH 005: Managing Expectations
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....
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HTBH 006: Is Happiness Really a Choice?
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...
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How to Be Happy at Work, 7 Tips on Finding Happiness in Work (regardless of...
“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...
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HTBH 007: Relationships, Effective Communication and Control Issues
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...
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How to Live Happy, 2 Tips That Will Change Your Life
There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. – Johnny Depp...
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HTBH 008: Happiness and Change
Emily experienced a change recently at work and we sat down to discuss how to be happy in times of change. We discuss the challenges when dealing with change and how it’s up to us to make any change...
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HTBH 009: Happiness and Aging
Aging is just a hard fact of life. Inescapable. In this episode of the How to Be Happy Podcast, Emily and I sit down to discuss our outlook on aging. We share our experience on resisting aging and how...
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HTBH 010: You Are Not Your Relationships
Emily and I discuss the concept that you are not your relationships. We had a listener leave a heartfelt message on our podcast line about a recent breakup. To set this up, Dr. Dyer in his book Your...
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HTBH 011: Happiness and Awareness
In order to find true inner-peace and happiness, we first need to have some awareness. This awareness is composed of two parts: 1) the awareness that something needs to change and 2) awareness of your...
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How to Find Yourself: 5 Tips on Discovering Who You Really Are
“The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.”...
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HTBH 012: Happiness and Emotional Intelligence
“Emotional intelligence as the subset of social intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them and to use this information to...
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HTBH 013: Faith and Walking the Walk
We all know how important it is to tell those we love how we feel, but do we live it? We had a scare a few weeks ago when Emily went into the hospital for an emergency appendectomy. The experience...
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HTBH 014: How to Feel Happy When Everything Sucks
The question often arises of how to be happy in life when we’re unhappy with our circumstances. Whether your job, relationships, or other parts of your life, Emily and I sat down to talk about how to...
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How to Be the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are, 5 Tips on Humility
A few years ago I was sitting in a support group discussing humility when a burly man shared, “I just wake up each morning and try to be the man my dog thinks I am.” That made sense. Maybe you’ve heard...
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HTBH 015: 5 Keys to a Healthy Relationship
In this episode Emily and I discuss 5 keys to have a healthy relationship. This is certainly not “the” five keys. Over the years we’ve certainly had some unhealthy relationships in our lives. We go...
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HTBH 016: Travel Tips (Budgeting, Packing, Deals, and Expectations)
Traveling is important to us so we make it a priority. In this episode Emily and I share some things we’ve learned over the years to make traveling more enjoyable and affordable. Some topics we touch...
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Learning to Love Yourself, Are You a Liar? (plus one awesome tip on loving...
Are you trying to alter the lens of others in order to be liked? When someone asks you to do something you don’t feel like doing, do you fabricate some story or excuse? In other words, do you lie?...
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HTBH 017: Effective Communication with Your Spouse or Partner
In this episode of the How to Be Happy Podcast, Emily and I sat down to discuss our experience on effective communication in relationships. One of the best ways to become a great communicator is to...
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HTBH 018: Dealing with Aging Parents
Dealing with aging parents is a part of life we should feel lucky to experience. However, in some cases, depending on the relationship we have with our parents or the circumstances involved, there can...
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HTBH 019: Dealing with Unhappy People
Last week after talking to my mother about dealing with unhappy people, she forwarded me an email with a story about The Law of The Garbage Truck. After some research, I discovered the story is from...
View ArticleDo You Want it More Than You Are Afraid of It?
Hanging out on Facebook the other day I saw a quote posted by Henri over at Wakeup Cloud. The quote was from Bill Cosby and it said, “Decide that you want it, more than you are afraid of it.” Henri’s...
View ArticleWhat is Your Authentic Self?
You hear people say it all the time, “be true to yourself,” “to thine own self be true,” “find your authentic self.” What does that mean exactly? What is your authentic self? For me, part of it was...
View ArticleWant Happiness? Get off Your A#$!
The first major shift in my thinking happened in 1997. The realization that I was responsible for my own failure’s in life. That I wasn’t entitled to anything and that if I want success and happiness,...
View ArticleAttitude Is Everything: Chang Your Brain, Change Your Attitude
Are you a pessimist or optimist? If you’re a pessimist, there’s hope. Thanks to neuroplasticity you can change the physical makeup of your brain by the way you think. Most of life is about...
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HTBH 020: Creating a Positive Self-Image
It’s been a while since we recorded our last podcast. Emily and I sat down today to discuss what it means and the importance of creating a positive self-image. Topics in this episode: Self-Image...
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Giving Up On Life, Why Suicide Can Be Attractive and Some Things to Think About
Giving up on life, or suicide, is always an option. Gasp… I certainly know what hopelessness feels like. But there’s a difference between being hopeless and helpless. If you’re feeling hopeless, that’s...
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HTBH 021: Stop Being So Needy
Do you have a needy partner, spouse, or friend? Or maybe you’re the needy one. In this episode of the How to Be Happy Podcast, we sat down to discuss how to stop being so needy. Whether your partner is...
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Hope is Cheap: How it’s Robbing You of Something Amazing
Hope is cheap, it doesn’t cost you a thing. It’s something you cling to when you’re afraid of moving outside your comfort zone. I know. I lived on hope for years. Consequently, nothing really amazing...
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How Perspective can Change Your Life: Shitty Circumstances and Self-Destruction
Circumstances can be shitty… Or they can be exactly what you need. Here’s some insight into how perspective can change your life. Tim was an amazing guy, we’d just met and as a fellow guitar player, we...
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HTBH 022: Relationship Advice; Are Arguments and Sarcasm Healthy?
Emily I rarely argue… actually, I’d say we don’t. Sure we may get snippy with each other from time to time, but we’re quick to recognize it and squash it as quickly as possible. That certainly is a...
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HTBH 023: Relationships, Setting the Rules on How You’re Treated
Whether you realize it or not, you’re setting the rules on how you’re treated. In this episode of the How To Be Happy Podcast, Emily and I talk about this theory and what this means in regards to the...
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HTBH 024: Mindfulness, Listening, and Communication Exercises
While listening to our last podcast, Emily and I realized we cut each other off… a lot. We talk over each other on occasion, especially if we’re sharing something about ourselves with others. We’re...
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HTBH 025: How to Determine if You’re in a Healthy Relationship
Last week in episode 24, Emily and I discussed communication exercises. As part of that research, I came across a list of ways to determine if you’re in a healthy relationship. In this episode we...
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HTBH 026: Should You Marry Him or Her?
In this episode, Jared and Emily ask the question: Should You Marry Him or Her? and other topics such as: Dating versus marriage behavior How the person your dating treats others Do they have jobs and...
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How to Be Happy Everyday: 10 Tips (#8 is golden)
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. – Helen Keller Sometimes… I just don’t want to be happy; let alone worrying about...
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How to Take an Awesome Vacation Every Six Months, 4 Tips on Finding Travel Deals
We met online and it was my first date in almost a year. Just after her margarita and my iced tea arrived, I asked my qualifier question, “If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?”...
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5 Tips on How to Stay Positive no Matter What the Circumstances. #3 Saves me...
“You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer It was a typical July day in the Midwest. Hot. The previous night my wife Emily and I had returned home from a short trip to see my...
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The Pain and Joy of Discovering Who You Are (and are not)
I was standing outside talking to a few friends when she came up and asked, “would you like to catch a movie?” Quickly my mind started racing, I needed to come up with an excuse. It’s not that I...
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31 Quotes About Love to Ignite Your Relationship
We were married on a beach. It was amazing. Our wedding service consisted of Emily and myself, our wedding official Caroline, and about a dozen chickens. As part of our service, Caroline read...
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