How to Live by Your Own Rules and Achieving Long Term Authentic Happiness with Kristina Mand

Summary: Kristina Mand-Lakhiani is the co-founder of mind valley, serial entrepreneur, international speaker, and artist. As a part of Mindvalley she brings her female perspective into the company leadership. She is a happiness from within advocate, she takes her kids to trips to Amazon Jungles to recharge or joins groups of entrepreneurs, such as Maverick1000 on Richard Branson’s Necker Island. She is the creator of a transformational quest “LIVE BY YOUR OWN RULES”. Why we are not aware of the masks we wear in the world There is no such thing as wrong thinking The comparison moment Why the beginning of the journey is the hardest and it is to be honest with yourself How to present yourself in the world as a woman? “life is too important to take seriously” Values for your children Curiosity, freedom, Your children will grow up just like you What is the belief your child will get from this interaction? We are the hardest critics on ourselves When we don’t fit our perfect picture of success we feel shame The hope that when a person reaches the top they’ll deserve love You must work on your relationship with self Why you need to realize where your goals and vision of success comes from Why we don’t have the faith in our own abilities Why we must trust ourselves Accepting where you are right now, it’s an unfolding process . . . Machine learning – we fall and then we put a label on it and stop trying How do we trust ourselves? The biggest problem is the inability to make mistakes Accepting all facets of yourself light and dark Why happiness is not an emotion Mihaly Czekstetmihaly Long term strategies usually don’t have immediate effects We live in instant gratification society We seek outside guidance and validation Making peace with pain and discomfort Happiness is not the absence of pain and discomfort Brene Brown on Fear David Goggins The danger of Biohacking, psychedelics, flow state Techniques to deal with fear Susan David and why there are no bad emotions just emotions we want more or less of Viktor Frankl “Pain ceases to be suffering when it finds meaning” T. Harv Ecker “Don’t Think” We are successful to the extent that we are willing to expand our own comfort The brain draws the most terrifying scenarios to keep you safe Susan David – Emotional Agility: Accept it, Name it properly, it is passing and not permanent, Stepping out and moving on, Journaling negative emotions Website: http://www.mattbelair.com/ sign up for the email list and most importantly do 1 act of kindness today!