Linda's Corner: Inspiration for a Better Life

Take 2 Minutes: Your Daily Dose of Positivity (Easily Increase Happiness & Well-being)

September 03, 2024 Linda Bjork/Marc Fussell Season 5 Episode 36

You can improve your positivity by as much as 200% in just 15 days with small daily action steps.  Marc Fussell's  brilliant "Take 2 Minutes" progressive web app not only changes lives, it saves them.   Marc Fussell is an entrepreneurial technologist and the founder of Take 2 Minutes non-profit.  You can learn more about Marc and his non-profit at his website https://www.take2minutes.org.  

Some of the highlights Marc shares:

  • How daily positivity helped his son through tough times
  • The research behind positive psychology
  • Our brain's default setting is to seek out danger and negativity
  • We can retrain our brain by creating new neural pathways that find positivity
  • Gratitude journals - but what if I can't think of anything to be grateful for?
  • How simple gratitude challenges can prime our brains towards gratitude
  • 3 good things - what is this practice and how can it help me?
  • You can change your mindset with 2 fast and easy daily practices - gratitude journal in the morning and 3 good things in the evening 
  • Research shows that gratitude journals and 3 good things produce better results than SSRI's  (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) 
  • How to create new neural pathways while we sleep
  • Focus groups showed 200% increase in positivity within 30 days
  • Increase feelings of worthiness and lovability
  • How SMS is more affective than a traditional app
  • Gain access to meditation on demand, breathing exercises, proven methods to promote better sleep, reduce anxiety and more

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