{"id":3374,"date":"2016-04-27T22:33:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T05:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coachingreallyworks.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2016-10-25T02:56:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:56:29","slug":"what-makes-a-good-life-and-happy-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/what-makes-a-good-life-and-happy-people\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Good Life and Happy People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About three hundred years ago, King Frederick II of Germany wanted to know what language a baby would grow up to speak, if they were left to develop on their own and not taught a language.<\/p>\n<p>He assigned 50\u00a0babies foster mothers, who were tasked to care for but not hold, touch, or talk to the babies. The experiment failed because all 50 babies died. You can see that\u00a0another person&#8217;s TOUCH\u00a0is an\u00a0absolute necessity\u00a0for a child to LIVE\u00a0and develop healthily, but we really do need each other a lot more than that, if we are to <strong>have a good, happy life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">In this Video:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>00:17 &#8211; Happy Independent People May Not Realize This<br \/>\n01:05 &#8211; The Bottom Line to a Happy Healthy Life<br \/>\n01:24 &#8211; A Shout Out To You Awesome Friends<br \/>\n01:28 &#8211; Quote from &#8211; Mark Twain<br \/>\n01:52 &#8211; Affirmation to Move You Forward<\/p>\n<h2>Listen To The Audio:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\">[powerpress]\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/coaching-really-works-abe\/id931183612\">Subscribe to Podcast in iTunes<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Watch The Video<\/h2>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RHRRodM3grY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Transcription:<\/h2>\n<p>I am really happy and excited to share this with you and I want to give you something very interesting about that very happiness. Okay?<\/p>\n<p>I pretty much consider myself a content person and in some ways, a very confident person and it makes it possible for me not to really feel lonely. I like to be with friends, sometimes I feel like I miss out on some things, I get a little bit of a twinge of that.<\/p>\n<h3>Happy Independent People May Not Realize This<\/h3>\n<p>I am pretty happy going at things on my own. But I have discovered something recently, there is this great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjkofbwybDMAhUE9GMKHadRB_kQyCkIHjAA&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ted.com%2Ftalks%2Frobert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness%3Flanguage%3Den&amp;usg=AFQjCNEZ3er5HJHE9uktl-womxx6NeIUKw&amp;sig2=SiXglRIRXref36WrAhoMzA&amp;bvm=bv.120857306,d.cGc\" target=\"_blank\">TED<\/a> video and I have noticed something about my life that while I do feel that way about myself, this <a href=\"#ted\">key to HAPPINESS\u00a0they talk about in this video<\/a>, I was surprised and I kind of looked over my life and I was like, yeah, you know what, the funny thing is, they were right. You\u2019ve got to check it out.<\/p>\n<h3>The Bottom Line to a Happy Healthy Life<\/h3>\n<p>Okay, I\u2019ll tell you what it is, I\u2019ll tell you really briefly and you\u2019ve got to watch the video for a lot more details. And <strong>the bottom line is this, &#8220;GOOD relationships keep us HAPPIER\u00a0and HEALTHIER, period.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n[shareable cite=&#8221;Robert Waldinger&#8221;]Good relationships keep us happier and healthier, period[\/shareable]\n[offer-box href=&#8221;http:\/\/sostartover.com&#8221; linktext=&#8221;Reminder: Have you checked out my book? I just released \u201cSo? Start Over!: Experience Clarity, Do What Matters, Live Your Dream\u201d which includes worksheets, cheatsheets, and bonus material. Click here to check it out!&#8221; securecheckout=&#8221;true&#8221; footnote=&#8221;Get It on Amazon&#8221;]\n<h3>A Shout Out To You Awesome Friends<\/h3>\n<p>It seems like a no-brainer, doesn\u2019t it? But yeah, I had to put that back in my thinking cap and work on it a bit and I\u2019m really happy that that\u2019s been my personal experience and that really is one of the things that makes me happy and why I am a happy person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks to all of you wonderful FRIENDS\u00a0and those that I have been close to and loved over the years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Well here\u2019s your quote for today,<\/p>\n[shareable cite=&#8221;Mark Twain&#8221;]There isn\u2019t time, so brief is life, for bickering, apologies, heart burnings, callings to account. 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