✨ What if the pursuit of happiness 🌈 is paved with bricks 🧱 of actions 💃 for the sake of it 🌿💛

✨ What if the pursuit of happiness is paved with bricks of actions done purely for the sake of it? 🧱💛 In this episode of the Miss Adventurous Podcast, Tiffany Rouge dives deep into a lesson she keeps re-learning: joy isn’t found in control, perfection, or productivity… it’s in the little things you do just because they feel good. 🌞🌿

From Bali sunshine 🌺☀️ to Vipassana stillness 🧘‍♀️✨, Tiffany shares how surrendering outcomes and leaning into the present moment can unlock more creativity 🎨🎶, more peace 🌊, and more happiness 💫.

🎧 Top 3 Takeaways:

1. 🌊 The Power of Surrender – Release control + let the universe flow through you.
2. 🌸 Doing for the Sake of Doing – Happiness often hides in the “pointless” but joyful acts.
3. 🧱 Brick by Brick – Each small action builds a life that feels good now, not just someday.

💫 This is a good listen if…

• You’re tired of chasing productivity 📈 and crave presence 🌙
• You’ve been wondering if “doing less” could actually mean living more 🌿💃
• You want a gentle, heart-filled reminder 💕 that sometimes joy is reason enough 🌈

Tiffany Rouge is a 🌸 mum, coach, and breathwork guide sharing raw stories, lessons, and real-life conversations about what it actually takes to grow, heal, and live on your own terms ✨💛. Through her workshops, coaching, and digital practices, she helps people reconnect with themselves, breathe deeper, and create lasting change 🌬️🌱.

She hosts powerful breathwork sessions in Adelaide & around Australia 🇦🇺, shows up at festivals & gatherings, and connects with open-minded souls online through her sacred coaching containers + digital practices 💻🌿

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🪬 Book in your in-person 1 on 1 Breathwork with her
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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) You know that saying you keep repeating your mistakes until you learn from them? Well long-time listeners of the Misadventurers podcast, particularly if you've listened to episode one and why there's a second start with why episode, is this beautiful refreshing remembering of the same mistake that I seem to keep making. So here is a little bit of learning for you, some real life wisdom because the answer is indeed a question and that question is the title of this episode. What if the pursuit of happiness was paved with bricks of choices and actions done for the sake of them? This is the Misadventurers podcast hosted by me, Tiffany Rouge. Life is one big adventure and it all starts from taking that one teensy tiny step outside of your comfort zone. So I'm recording this with 17 days left of freedom as if you have already listened to the Misadventurers podcast you'll know that I am currently free, free from the I guess daily life, I wouldn't say burden but I guess it is kind of a burden, of the two boys that currently inhabit my life which give my life so much meaning and joy and life but also take a lot of my attention. They're currently in Brazil, my fiance and my son and that's fine you know I let go of the need for it to be anything other than what it is, there's a lot of shit leading up to it but I'm fine now because I'm free. But I am in this moment right, I've just had an incredible beautiful time sitting and tuning into I guess the present moment you know the last gosh three four weeks have been beautiful almost like I've tiptoed out of class and bludged school so that I could go and sit in the sunshine on the oval without any fear of getting caught by a teacher right it's that like oh I shouldn't be enjoying this stillness this present moment and I guess you know there's a little bit of conditioning because there is you know like the tiptoe the feeling like I shouldn't be doing this even though I am and it's great and I'm having a beautiful wonderful time. I have just been going on walks and not even listening to music just being with my thoughts moving through this actual beautiful neighborhood that I'm in feeling the real slow momentum there really is that coming out of a shell when we come from winter to spring right it's that like awakening and I love this awakening energy and this spring of like oh cool I can get back into motion but I'm gonna take my time with it this beautiful walk that I went on today it really did that's the feeling that I got as I walked and the sun was shining it was like a 24 degree day there was wind but it wasn't the cold icy wind that I have come to expect from winter it's a wind that just represented a change in pressure because the sun was finally warm enough that I could feel the temperature even though the wind was blowing the icy chill was gone and it was a nice welcome change of pressure the wind was something that I could tolerate rather than I wanted to be inside and recoil from the joy of the past very most recent past stillness that I and the hibernation that I had been enduring which was winter and then to be walking just in a t-shirt didn't even have a jumper on with Pluto down the road listening to the birds listening to everything that was going on around me that just felt so fresh and vibrant and feeling the sun getting the uv on me it was I was being washed with this beautiful new energy of warming up of possibility of let's get started coming out waking up energy right I feel like spring is it embodies the beautiful waking up energy like a you know like I think a good way to place spring somewhere in a 24-hour cycle is the morning right it's that fresh new energy we've just been hibernating and I'm ready to get up and go do things like I have this fresh beautiful energy and it's a nice feeling we have to endure the cold and the hibernation and the sleep and the rest to be able to appreciate not the hottest thing you know to appreciate the sunshine and the ease in the breeze when it happens because it it's not a thing that happens all the time like you get into the height of summer and it's like the expectation is that it's just going to be another sunny day and you're almost like oh it's too hot I want to like I want some respite from the heat whereas now it's like oh yes welcome this heat wake up with this heat and this energy from the glorious sun so it's a very interesting time as I you know I noticed more and more beautiful things about my surroundings that I didn't see before because I wasn't present and when I walked the streets when I had my son with me and with my partner you know maybe my attention was elsewhere so I really am finding like this incredible presence within myself just making these steps and I recently got back from Bali and I felt that there too and sure it's different energy because it's warm all the time there and it really was among that like okay it's hot you know I'm gonna need some respite soon like it was that kind of temperature but the stillness and the presence that I've been accumulating in this you know month off of being a mom and being a partner and being in a you know in a household being part of a family right and yes I am still part of that family but my daily life right now is not of that uh profession of not that occupancy so recognizing the stillness and trying to document it in a way so that I can remember to keep doing stuff like this when the boys come back and this has been a really interesting point of contention for me because I have you know if you've listened to the Miss Adventurous podcast the last few episodes I've been really feeling like what do I even do with my time right I have this obsessive tendency and I have been obsessed with my future and my desires and when I'm not obsessed with my future and my desires I find beautiful white Welsh women to be interested in and obsessive over but also what do I do if I'm not giving my attention to those things where do I actually give my attention and I was listening to Esther Hicks if you're not familiar with Abraham Hicks definitely after this episode go and get on YouTube and just look up Abraham Hicks summary but we share a lot of similar views which is that life is meant to feel good and when you are in a place where you feel good you're going to manifest your desires because when you're busy feeling like you don't have the thing you want or you you're busy not feeling good essentially you don't get the thing you want and the lesson that just keeps coming through is that like surrender surrendered to uh the story that I create right and I guess one of the biggest motivators for me to go to Vipassana was to understand what kind of attachment I had to my desires and the future that I'm creating that was making me feel so unhappy that it's not in my life and so uneasy that it's not turning out the way that I want and I guess I just forgot that I'm not in control and when I get obsessed with my desires and the life that I'm building I feel like I start I'm able to kind of like pull the reins of control back into my life and what I'm doing is just making it harder for myself because it's almost like that like ignorance is bliss I have no idea how it's going to play out so I can just continue to do the things that make me feel good in the present moment because I don't have to worry because the universe has got it right it's like I almost stopped trusting that the universe was going to give the thing to me and that I had to take full responsibility of my own future and sure right like if you're someone who doesn't believe in the law of manifestation, the universe and Abraham Hicks you know she often talks about this because she is a believer that yeah like it's going to be hard if you don't see it that way and if you think that your life is solely in your hands and look if you're an atheist that is completely a choice for you but my life became easier when I realized that I wasn't in control and I guess that's something I keep forgetting and I keep making it hard for myself by trying to take back the reins of control and the funny thing is now I'm in this stage of needing to fill my time because if I'm not obsessing over beautiful Welsh woman or my desires what am I obsessing over right and where do I put my time or my energy and my thoughts well you know I don't want to be someone who is glued to their phone who is constantly on social media or who like regularly watches things on tv because I've just I've never really been that person and I recognize myself when I get lost in the consumption. So this is I guess an interesting turning point for me because I've been here before and I didn't learn my lesson and that's why I'm here again which is why don't I create when these moments of like oh I need to have something right that obsessive tendency that I must do a podcast episode or I must create more things towards my business I must be building I must be being productive and it's almost like the opposite of creativity right like how the how do you schedule and plan inspiration you can't it just comes when you're busy having a great time and not thinking about the thing that you're meant to be doing and so weaving those two things together of like all right what am I committing to right and you know the question is like what am I uh you know this question has arisen a few times and I've been still looking for that answer which is what am I committing to because the same lesson keeps popping up and I know what I should be doing but I'm not committing to it. So maybe instead of me committing to doing more work and being more productive and even just committing to like trying to be fully present with my son when he's around because I like you know can still be hard for me what if I just committed to creating and for me like I really enjoy creating audio things that people listen to like what you're listening to right now is that super creative to someone who's like an artist who you know has their way with a stream of creativity comes through in different ways for different people and for me I really enjoy creating audio stuff creating videos that are close to home for me and I think I was in my head around like the business side of it of okay well like the things that I create need to lead to something they need to be businessy so that I could create and I could make money from it and it's like oh hang on a second I'm about to tiptoe off the edge of just being present being creative to turning it into a profession, turning it into job, turning into something that I have to do rather than this creative pursuit of something that I feel called to do something that I want to do something that I'm interested in doing. So I sit here and I say these things having just created an Instagram reel for the you know one that I've actually like I've been home from Bali like a week and I have been wanting I wanted to create this particular item of content in Bali so it's over a week you know it's been longer than seven days and I was stopping myself because it was a oh it needs to mean something it needs to lead towards something it needs to do it and it's it's like I've lost the doing for the sake of doing and I you know I wonder if this is going to be like an endless challenge for me because when I get into the flow of doing for the sake of doing I remember these are like in the past when I have done that those have been the happiest times and this podcast I started doing for the sake of doing you know if you you've been with me for you know since 2018 I think is when I started this podcast if you've been with me from the start or you've gone back and you've listened because there's a fair few of them and good on you if you do because hey I'm I'm amazed that you want to put my whole life story in your ears but go on if you're interested I highly recommend it it's a great story. The times that I have just been in the pursuit of doing things for the sake of doing them have been some of the happiest times of my life so maybe that's the tea that is what I'm committing to doing things for the sake of doing them because at the end of the day it may not make me money but it may make me happy and that is a way better outcome because I'm an abundant being, I don't need the money, money's always in my life it flows in and out and I'm set up, I am sorted. So the road on the pursuit to happiness is paved with bricks of action that are done for no reason. Yeah put that on a t-shirt hey but genuinely like this is you know this is the answer I'm grateful that I'm here you know finding this as I speak it out loud to myself and you know if there were people here I'd probably have conversations about it but I'm here in this vacant unoccupied family house of my own and so you get to listen to this and and you get to be part of my journey and my discovery and my understanding and I have a feeling that that's going to be worth something in the future. I don't know it's just kind of like a vague a vague intuition possible universe download coming through because we are going to be inundated with AI but how how can AI take you on that full long journey of thought process in that way? Sure AI is going to do it in like a different way but this is a genuine raw real expression of me so yeah thank you for listening and uh here's to more bricks yeah those actions of just doing things for the sake of doing them you should try it sometime I have a feeling it'll work out for you. Well that's almost it from me here on Misadventurous if you dig what you hear and want to keep up to date with every single episode of the Misadventurous podcast hit subscribe however you're listening to this right now and if you want to be even more of a legend and help other wayward adventurers find this path I'd love it if you head on over to iTunes and rate and review this podcast go on five stars for all that positivity right so until next time and don't forget it's the small choices that we make every single day that build up to that big change that you're working towards so stay with it