Monique Rhodes is a Happiness Strategist who teaches students and corporations around the world how to master their lives. She has spent the last 25 years studying the mind and its relationship to happiness and suffering. Over 70 universities and colleges use her program The 10 Minute Mind®. Monique hosts the daily In Your Right Mind podcast, where she discusses how small habits determine our well-being. In 2010 Monique received a nomination for the New Zealander of the Year Award.

Highlights

Long-term depression and a suicide attempt led Monique to discover why she had such a hard time being happy. She traveled around the world learning what she needed to teach what she does today.The ability to shift happiness levels is available to everyone.People often have to reach a place where the status quo is so painful they have to make a decision to change.How we frame things determines the decision we will make about how to move in a new direction.Happiness is a habit.Almost everything is a habit and habits often form as a result of our past experiences.Our mind is the root of our happiness and suffering.For Monique, her superpower for understanding her mind is meditation.Meditation practices can change the structure of the brain.You make the decision to be either happy or unhappy.Happiness means that you can cope with whatever is going on in your life. It is the absence of suffering.We are programmed to believe that attaining things will make us happier.

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