You can be happy without changing your life | Cassie Holmes | TEDxManhattanBeach

Many feel time poor—like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get it all done. And a common belief is that if we had more free time, we would be happier. Cassie Holmes, a UCLA professor who studies the relationship between time and happiness, found it’s not about having more. She uncovers myth-breaking results and ways to spend the time we do have to bring greater joy into our lives. #joy Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, an award-winning teacher and researcher on time and happiness, and bestselling author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most.

Happier Hour is a Wall Street Journal Bestseller, and was selected as an Amazon Best Book of 2022, a “must read” by Forbes, the Washington Post and the Financial Times, and was featured in such outlets as the Today Show, CBS Mornings, CNN, NPR’s Hidden Brain, and GOOP with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Holmes’s academic research has been widely published in leading academic journals. The course she developed and now teaches, Applying the Science of Happiness to Life Design, is among UCLA’s most popular for MBAs and Executive MBAs alike.

[breindyweisz]

Mindfulness being present in doing what im doing makes me happy.

[abaimv]

one day i will stand here and shared my experience in my journey❤

[yogista]

I am now nearly 70 and since my twenties I have the painful and tiresome feeling of not having enough time .... Thank you for this important insight!

[unvaccinatedAndPureBlood]

Peace is the goal.

Happiness is a choice and a byproduct of peace.

If you chase happiness, then you have to have the flip side of sadness, one can't exist without the other, and it's a fool's game.

[singha]

This is what Buddhism says- to find joy in each moment. It’s good that someone in the West has done research on it now- it’s been known in the East for thousands of years.

[DYoung-vtpq]

Thank you, Ms. Holmes! Great food for thought. Blessed be. ❤

[kh]

The grass is always greener where it's watered. How we see ourselves and what's around us is what we experience. Gratitude is what happens when we're paying attention to the good in our lives. These are all mental strengths and coping mechanisms. Thank you for touching on this important subject.

[HeyJessCruz]

Amazing to see you give this talk in person! Great experience, learned a lot.

[mehboobalilalani]

Happiness is a personal choice. Some people have all the luxuries, comfort, time availability, and still remain unhappy. Others face trial and tribulation but remain happy.

[santiagocamacho]

Wonderful thoughts. I will be definately take them to action.

[etanaclifford]

What we do with the time allotted us determines how we can be, poor or rich. Thank you for this exposure.

[elin_]

I don't blame people for being exhausted and unhappy. Our society isn't healthy.

[bunloi]

Thank you, have a nice day for all ❣❣

[drumbum.]

It's Good to be Thankful and Greatful.

[caco]

I really hope your message will resonate with my partner. It's not that I demand for a 24/7 undivided attention but when she has the time for me, she often cuts me off and answers phone calls from people whom she considers a big part of her life... Leaving me feeling like I'm a spare tire, which she will only use whenever she needed me... "I'll get back to you, love, we'll have more time later." ... Later means having to postpone my sleep or other things to do that are important to me.

I agree with you that the quality of time spent is more important than the quantity of time, because, nobody knows when we will be gone forever.

[Mariahugo]

Thanks for continuing updates. I'd rather trade the stock market as it's more profitable. I make an average of $30, 100 per week even though I barely trade myself.

[pearth]

Being happy with a small thing makes me out of the stress even when I feel blue

[tumisihseptiani]

Excellent speech. Thankyou for share your journey!

[jimj]

A lot of happiness comes from chasing and anticipation of happiness.

[LivinginCentralNewJersey-epbq]

I will hit my goals when I am happy !!!