We all have desires, which is awesome, but the Buddha told us "The root of all suffering is desire," so what does that mean? Discover how much of your desires are influenced by others and how attachment to them zaps your joy. PLEASE NOTE: In most cases, the "Worksheets" are attached to the CLIENT segments.

Learn strategies for helping your client navigate through the bombardment of desires they are influenced to have and discover their true desires, which is a key to happiness.

Ever had high expectations and been disappointed (no joy there)? Ever had low expectations and lived in a slump (still no joy)? This lecture will give you the tool to let go of expectations all together and, surprise, find your joy!

In this lesson, you'll learn what limiting beliefs about work, money, and life in general might be holding you back from joy, and what word you shouldn't use.

Beliefs are all about perspective. It is vital to remember that all beliefs are valid, even if one person's belief conflicts with another's. The reason is that each person sees the world from their own point of view. In workshops, we often have 2 people stand back to back to demonstrate the concept of perspective. We ask both to tell the audience 10 things that exist in the room. Many of the items each mentions are different than the other person, however neither is lying or incorrect, even if the other person cannot see that those items exist in the room. Life is like this.

This is another segment that it is important to remember that YOUR beliefs are not likely to match those of your client. Your role is only to help them determine beliefs they hold that may be holding them back. One way to think about beliefs is like they are a table with legs. The surface is the belief and the legs are the evidence that supports the belief. Through life, your clients may have developed limiting beliefs because they were exposed to ideas that planted seeds of doubt and then they had experiences—themselves or by observing others—that reinforced these ideas, turning them into beliefs. You see, a belief is just a thought you keep thinking.

The good news is that beliefs can be CHANGED. How? By knocking out the legs. The key to dismantling unwanted beliefs is to find evidence that proves that they are not true (or not always true). This eliminates or weakens the legs. Any table with less than 3 legs will topple over. Then, new beliefs that are more empowering can be built in the same way. Determine the desired belief and then find EVIDENCE to back it up.

Unless we stop to consider what roles we play and who we THINK we are, we're stuck replaying the roles we learned... but you get to choose! Who do you want to be? Discover how to find happiness by being your true, authentic self.

This section goes over how your clients' identities impacts happiness. It also will look at some of the resistance that your clients may have to releasing aspects of their identity that do not serve them.

Stop putting off your joy... no more "I'll be happy when...". Joy is found RIGHT NOW! Find out how.

Learn strategies for keeping your coaching sessions "in the now" and capitalizing on the power contained in the present moment and how only in this moment can you, or your clients, experience joy. Learn how to keep your client focused on their current reality moving forward, rather than getting lost in the past.

In what way do you prefer to get JOY out of your experiences? Feeling the happiness IN the moment OR looking back at the memory and reliving the happiness? Knowing the answer and understanding the difference can unlock clues to happiness.

Discover how understanding whether your clients think more from their experiencing self or remembering self can effect how you should be coaching them. Knowing this will help you coach them to happiness through practicing being "in the now" vs. focusing on "telling a new story."

Discover the power of your unconscious mind and the tools to free yourself from the patterns and conditioning that currently block your joy.

This section will help you determine the condition responses and triggers that your clients may have that elicit the emotions they wish to change (and create more happiness). We will also look at:

What is conditioning.

Triggers and conditioned responses.

Importance of interrupters.

How to use these powerful conditions to help clients.

Reconditioning a negative pattern.

The importance of conditioning your session so that they have a positive association with it.

If you want more joy you literally need to REWIRE the learned responses that trigger negative feelings. You also need to understand how stress blocks happiness and what to do about it. The good news is that it's super easy and we provide the tools.

Learn how to utilitze the strategies taught to set the tone for your sessions. Coach your clients to reduce stressors and walk them through the process of reprogramming negative triggers to positive ones. Recommended book and training program, Wired for Joy. is discussed and simplified activity from Wired for Joy included as an attachment (see Wired for Joy activity attached to the CLIENT video).

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a powerful tool for helping develop positive conditioning to help your clients experience greater happiness in their lives. Learn the basics of NLP, including how to create a positive anchor and how to stack positive anchors for more powerful effects. Includes scripts (attachment).

Happiness is a choice! Yes, you can learn the tools to control your emotions so you can feel good NOW, no matter what's going on in your life.

Your mood, as a coach, has a powerful impact on your clients, so it's important to master the art of creating a positive mood while working with clients. Help your clients learn that what they feel is ultimately their choice and give them tools for choosing happiness.

Review the layers between you and your happiness, including how desires, beliefs, identity, time, and negative patterns affect your ability to truly experience joy.

Final reflections on utilizing the tools and concepts contained within this course to better assist your clients in creating true, lasting happiness in their lives.

We discuss what forgiveness truly is and the impact that unforgiveness has on our clients' happiness. We also discuss how to help our clients discover the power of forgiveness.

In this section we go over the steps that our client can follow that will lead them to forgiveness and letting go of what may be holding them back from true happiness.

You're the director of your own life movie (and your client directs theirs)! Use this activity to re-write your script, or use it with your clients, and watch how it changes your life.