There’s a lot of negativity in the world these days. It’s more important than ever to be happy and share happiness. In this episode I discussed HOW to be happy with Steven Lefkoff, the founder of Small Claims Academy, a business established during the pandemic in 2020 to empower individuals and businesses to perform as well as they can in small claims cases.

When it comes to building a business during the pandemic happiness is key. Simply put, people like happy people. When you’re happy your happiness rubs off onto other people and they want to be around you and, when all goes well, work with you because of the happiness that you’re exuding. This is important because no business can exist in a vacuum. You need to surround yourself with great people to grow.

How To Shift Gears Into Happiness

When you wake up in the morning you have a choice of how you’re going to approach that day. This isn’t a focus on your schedule for the day or the tasks that you’re going to accomplish. The focus is on answering this question: “Am I going to approach this day and be happy, or am I going to be miserable?” When you start happy you’re at least beginning the day in the way that you want to begin the day. Yes, things will go off the rails and bad things will happen. When bad things happen, you have the choice to focus on the bad things for an extended period of time OR to recalibrate.

You can take 30 seconds, close your eyes, take a deep breath and recalibrate by focusing on what IS going good in your life. In that moment you’re essentially starting over and choosing the path of happiness. It’s not difficult to do. The difficulty lies with remembering to do it – and then doing it.

If It Works For Children…

Steven has a daily practice with his children to help them start their day coming from a place of happiness. If it works for children, it will probably work for you! Steven’s children come downstairs around 6:45 in the morning in SOME kind of mood. Sometimes, unfortunately, they’re in a miserable mood. When this happens, Steven tells them to go back upstairs, get back into bed even if it’s for a short period of time, and start over. They’re instructed to come back downstairs with a smile on their face. When necessary this process repeats until his children choose to be happy instead of miserable.

That’ just one of the happiness practices that we spoke about in this episode. It doesn’t benefit anybody, including yourself and the people around you, to be miserable. It DOES benefit everybody you come into contact with throughout your day to be happy.

Listen In!

In this episode we also talk about:

How to shift your emotional reactions to negative situations.
How to use the “Flip The Pancake” methodology to create more happiness in your life.
Steven’s story about how he started a business during the pandemic.
Why happiness leads to confidence for you and your clients.
Why YOU being happy is helpful to OTHER people.
…and more golden nuggets of advice!

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About The Guest

 

Steven Lefkoff is an attorney with a focus in helping people and business owners navigate the law in court without an attorney. Licensed in Georgia, Steven is the founder of Small Claims Academy, a business established in 2020 to empower litigants to perform as well as they can in their small claims case by providing individuals and businesses with products designed to help them navigate their state’s small claims court. Small Claims Academy's first product, Gavel (www.gavel.legal), is an online course to teach litigants the tips, tricks, and procedures of small claims courts.