How to Be Happy: Tips From Bonnie Skinner
Run a Profitable Gym
English - December 26, 2019 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 61 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Health & Fitness fitness coaching crossfit business gym marketing ceo Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
You opened a gym because you wanted to help people improve their lives with fitness.
But lately, you've been more stressed than passionate. The gym is short-staffed and you've been working 12-hour days. You lie awake at night worrying about cash flow and coaching feels like a chore. What used to be a source of joy now feels like a burden.
How did you get here? And how do you get happy again?
Psychotherapist Bonnie Skinner will tell you in this episode of Two-Brain Radio.
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Timeline:
0:53 – The connection between physical fitness and happiness.
1:36 – The long-term effects of exercise on happiness.
3:52 – The best workout for depression? Just move.
5:01 – Anxiety and depression: imbalances of input and output.
6:09 – The difference between situational and long-term anxiety.
8:18 – Depression and the mental bank account.
10:25 – Increased output during the holiday season leads to increased anxiety.
12:13 – Defining depression: What is your brain responding to?
16:26 – Managing anxiety.
19:50 – Prioritize meaning and engagement.
21:45 – What to do when the thing that brings you meaning is also the thing making you anxious.
23:31 – Paying attention to the cues your body is sending.
25:33 – Check your baseline.
27:37 – Practice self-awareness with regular personal check-ins.
31:36 – Balancing your flywheel.