Weekly: Your new year
In today's newsletter, I'm so excited to share a special gift with you all. It will help you reflect on 2022 and embrace what is to come in 2023. Keep reading to learn how to get your copy.
I'm truly honored that The New Happy is a part of your life. Thank you for your support over the past year.
Wishing you a year of profound joy, love, and meaning ahead. I'll be right there alongside you, at every step of the way.
Happy New Year!
Stephanie Harrison, founder of The New Happy
This Week
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One of the core principles of The New Happy philosophy is that happiness does not exist in the future.
There's no future achievement that will make you happy. Happiness is found only in the here and now — a way of being that embraces your daily experience, seeking to find joy, connection and meaning wherever you can.
How can you put this idea into practice, and experience the happiness you deserve?
I'm excited to share our New Happy 2023 Tracker with you today!
Click here to download your 2023 Tracker
It's a daily tool that will help you to reflect on each day and live more intentionally. Every day, you can check in with yourself in an easy and joyful way, using your favorite colors to symbolize your emotions or experiences.
It can help facilitate well-being in the moment, and also to enable it in the long-term.
As a newsletter subscriber, you get first access to this free tool. Inside, you'll find a template, instructions on how to use it, and community stories to inspire you. We've provided some suggestions for using it, but please make it your own. (Studies show that when you customize tools to make them work for you, you're more likely to stick with them!)
Want to share the Tracker with a friend? We hope you love it, and if you do, please share it with a friend by sending them this link: https://www.thenewhappy.com/newyear
More Tips and Tools
1. Arrogance gets in the way — We all behave arrogantly sometimes. Here's why that hurts us.
2. The secret to growth — Despite what everyone says, it's not determination or consistency.
3. How to feel your feelings — The guide I wish I'd had.
4. You don't see yourself accurately — Your self-perception is wrong, and here's how to fix it.
Community
What did you learn in 2022 and what are your intentions for 2023?
"I learned to be true to myself and follow my heart. My intention for 2023 is to be gentle and kind to myself even when I feel pressured to find a job after I graduate from college."
"I learned that although, I love teams and believe everyone needs support, I don't have to 'okay' all my decisions through a coach/mentor/etc. I'm capable and I can trust myself to know that ultimately it is up to me to make the decision for myself. I realized that my support team is there to help guide me and support me, but not make my decisions for me."
"What I learnt in 2022: just as I think in regards to others, it’s ok for me to mess up. And my needs are valid; if I do something that might put someone out a little, it’s ok, I’m human, I make mistakes, and also have needs. My intention for 2023? I think continue to try and hold my needs in mind whilst also being considerate of those of the people around me."
"I learned that I actually am okay. That the voice in my head since as long as I can remember telling me I wasn’t, was never my own voice, but was my father's. And intentions for 2023 are to continue with my healing journey, with a focus on love and being present."
Inspiration
2022, in 7 minutes (Vox) — Humanity brings me to tears.
50 wonderful things from 2022 (NPR) — Believe in our beautiful world; it'll help us make it more beautiful.
Ai Weiwei’s manifesto (WePresent) — Especially appreciate his callout of Old Happy: “Material things will not be able to give you true happiness.”
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