Habits 2 Goals: The Habit Factor® Podcast With Martin Grunburg | Goal Achievement, Productivity & Success Simplified

Happiness on a WhimThe surprising truth is that happiness and every other emotion are not mysteries. This framework proves it.Start hereHappiness might be the most talked-about behavioral concept of all time. Thousands of books. Tens of thousands of blogs and podcast episodes. And yet — for most people — it remains a mystery.The first key: happiness is not simply a feeling that happens to you.Happiness is both a primary, elemental emotion/feeling — raw, immediate, requiring no explanation — AND an emergent compound: a resultant cocktail produced by one, several, or all of the elements within your “Behavior Echo-System” (see image below) working in concert.That’s what this episode is about. And once you see it this way, you can never unsee it.Why elemental thinking matters (and why “simple” is powerful)Before we get to happiness, here’s the setup that makes everything else click.The reason UBM — the Unified Behavior Model™ — works is precisely because it’s elemental. Some people push back on that word. “Elemen