Clean Sheets Happiness

We step away from self-improvement for a minute and celebrate the tiny, ordinary things that make life feel surprisingly wonderful. We trade big-moment chasing for the clean sheet effect, small rituals, and everyday comforts that help us land softly even on hard days. 
• Clean sheets as a reset button for the mind 
• Happiness arriving as small moments instead of big events 
• Using the good stuff now, candles, soap, lotion, soft pajamas 
• Perfect drinks and tiny rituals, Diet Coke, coffee, good ice 
• Weather and seasonal shifts that change your mood fast 
• Food wins like the surprise French fry and perfect toast 
• Feeling cared for when someone remembers your preferences 
• The thrill of things working, passwords, printers, chargers, coupons 
• The joy of canceled plans and protecting time to do nothing 
• Small social kindnesses, elevator holds, letting you merge, saving a seat 
• Taking off outside clothes as real relief 
• Noticing little joys during difficult seasons without pretending life is easy 
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Clean Sheets And Tiny Joys

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You know what? You know what does not get enough credit? Clean sheets. Honestly, clean sheets may be one of the greatest achievements of modern civilization. You crawl into bed, the sheets are cool, the pillowcases are fresh, everything smells clean, and for about 12 seconds you feel like a woman who is her entire life together. The bills are paid, the house is organized, your relationships are thriving, your paperwork is filed, you have answered every email. None of that is necessarily true, but clean sheets make it feel like it is. And that is what we're talking about today. All the tiny ordinary things that make life surprisingly wonderful. For me, a crisp Diet Coke, a cool breeze on a hot day, finding $20 in a coat pocket, getting every green light when you're already running late. Taking off your bra at the end of the day. See, there's a lot of them. Come on, that deserves its own national holiday. Today we are not solving the world's problems. We are not improving ourselves. I am sick of trying to make things better. I'm sick of the negativity in the this world. I'm sick of organizing drawers, starting diets, setting goals. I've done all that with you guys, and it's all important. But today we're going to put that all on the back burner and we're going to simply appreciate the little things that make us stop and think, oh, that's nice. And sometimes we think, oh, that's really, really nice. I want to welcome you to Inside Marcy's Mind, the podcast where we talk about life, all the funny, strange, delightful, irritating, and completely ordinary parts of it. I am Marcy, and this is a place where we sit down together, just like friends having coffee, and talk about whatever's been bouncing around inside my mind. Hence the name, Inside Marcy's Mind. You know, and today what was bouncing around in there is happiness, not the giant life-changing kind, not winning the lottery kind, the clean sheets kind. I'm just talking about the small things, the tiny flashes of pleasure that happened in the middle of an ordinary day. The things that cost little or nothing, but somehow make life feel much better. So pour yourself some coffee, grab a crisp diet coke, get comfortable, and let's celebrate the little things that make us ridiculously happy.

Why Happiness Has Bad PR

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It's been a great week. Just want to catch up on me. Great week. I have had great meals. I have gone to great concerts. I have done some business and helping get some things set up at church. Not enough to overwhelm me, but enough to make me feel useful. I've this will be the third podcast I'm doing today. It is my third and final one, and I feel my other two are exceptional as well. So it's been a good week. Next week I have a little one-day overnighter planned, and the week after that, I'm heading to Arizona. So I'm just happy, enjoying summer, and trying to focus on the little things that make me happy. There's enough sadness out there. There's enough stress. I have to say, happiness has terrible public relations. I think happiness has a public relations problem. We have been taught to look for happiness in enormous packages. A dream vacation, a major accomplishment, a perfect relationship, a new house, a big celebration. You know what? Real life usually does not have background music. Real life has a dishwasher running and somebody asking where the scissors are. We spend so much time waiting for the big moments that we miss the little ones. Happiness is opening the refrigerator, realizing there is still one piece of cake left. Or like me today, when I got home and I was starving, there was still a little bit of my pasta salad that I made for the concert on Sunday night when Craig and I left, went, excuse me. And I was so excited. It's walking into a room and remembering why you went there. This last one becomes increasingly excited the older you get. It's thinking you were out of coffee and discovering one more pod in the cabinet. You know, for me, it's coming home and an elevator's waiting for me. If you have ever lived in a high-rise, or if you've ever been even to a hotel for several days and had to deal with elevators, you know what it feels like, especially when I have packages in my arm, to walk to the elevator bank and there's one with its doors wide open, waiting to take me to the 36th floor. You know, sometimes happiness is not fireworks. Sometimes it's the person ahead of you at the grocery store saying, You only have two things, go ahead of me. It's driving on the highway, the freeway, the toll road, wherever you are, and you're merging, and someone lets you merge nicely. That person is practically an angel. No wings, no halo. Just someone standing there. I'm sorry, so just someone driving there and uh and opening a spot just for you. We wait for happiness to arrive as an event, but most of the time it arrives as a moment. And the funny thing about happy moments is that they do not announce themselves. There is no trumpet. Nobody says, Hey, Marcy, guess what? Prepare yourself at 243 today. You're gonna experience a perfectly timed breeze. It's gonna come just when you need it, nice and cool. These things just happen. And when we notice it, it feels even more generous.

The Clean Sheet Effect And Using Nice Things

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The clean sheet effect, I like to call it. Let's return to clean sheets because I feel strongly about this. Why do clean sheets feel so luxurious? They're just sheets. We already own them, we've already slept on them. We've washed them ourselves, nobody delivered them on a silver tray. We probably made the bed ourselves. But yet, when you climb into a freshly made bed, you feel like you have checked into a very exclusive hotel. That is true. And I will tell you, I never climb into clean sheets without taking a glorious shower beforehand and buffing and scrubbing and doing one of those, you know, those extra long showers. You know, it does feel like you climbed into a freshly made bed. You feel, I'm sorry, when you climb into a freshly made bed, you do feel like you checked into a very exclusive hotel. A hotel where you also have to take out the garbage and scoop the cat litter, but still a very exclusive hotel. There's something about that cool, smooth feeling when you first get under the covers, especially if you have taken a shower, which I just shared with you. Clean body, clean pajamas, clean sheets. Oh my God, that's the holy trinity of bedtime. You get into bed and you try not to move too much because you don't want to disturb perfection. You arrange the pillows, you pull the blanket up just right, and then naturally one of the cats decides this is the exact moment to walk across your stomach. Oh my God. And he's only got three legs and he's 23 pounds. And let me tell you, when he walks on you, you know it. Anyways, clean sheets remind me that some of the best pleasures are not new, they are renewed. We do not always need another thing. Sometimes we need to refresh the things we already have. Wash the sheets, open the windows, light the candle we've been saving, use the good lotion. Can you believe we have good lotion? I know, right? Is that just dumb? Open the good lotion and use it. Drink out of the glass we like. Why are we saving our nice things? For whom? The queen is not coming, or the king for that matter. And even if she were, she'd probably bring her own glassware. This is something wonderful about deciding that an ordinary Tuesday deserves the nice sheets, the fluffy towel, and the good coffee. We often act like pleasure has to be earned. Oh, that is so true. I will light the candle when company comes. That's what we say. I will wear the good pajamas on vacation. I will use the fancy soap when the bathroom is perfectly clean. No, no, no, no. The point of this podcast is light the candle now. Use that doggone soap. Oh my gosh, my mom had these little flower soaps in our guest bathroom. And they were so dang dusty. Because how do you wash soap? But you couldn't use them. I think in the summer they look like shells. I don't know. But anyhow, do you remember that? The good soap? Use it. Wear the pajamas. Your life is happening right now, not after the house is clean enough to be photographed for a magazine. It's happening now, people. Wear the jammies.

Perfect Drinks And Small Daily Rituals

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Now let's discuss beverages. Because there is having a drink, and then there is having a drink exactly the right temperature. A crisp diet coke poured over ice. That first sip is practically medicinal, and I am here to tell you it is medicinal. Not medically. Nobody quote me. I don't want to be quoted. I'm not offering health advice. I am offering an emotional truth. There is something about hearing that can open that little fizz, the ice crackling, the first cold sip. It can turn a completely average afternoon into an occasion. And everyone has their drink. Mine is Diet Coke. Now, I do, I will drink a canned Diet Coke at home, but my preferred drink of choice, being sober for 38 years, is on my way home stopping McDonald's. It could be McDonald's, it could be for I where I live now, walking home. It could be McDonald's, Chick-fil-A, or if I want to go up a block, Circle K, which I do a lot because it's 99 cents for one, and they're really good. They have the crunchy ice and the foam cups. Um, as a diet coke. And it does change my attitude. It does change all those things. It's, and every one of you has it. It may be hot coffee in the morning. I also love a hot coffee in the morning. Maybe it's iced tea with exactly the right amount of lemon. Maybe it's a sparkling water with a slice of cucumber. Maybe it's a milkshake so thick that trying to drink it through the straw becomes a cardiovascular workout. The perfect drink is not just about thirst, it's a pause. It's a tiny ritual. You sit down, you take a sip, you think, okay, this day can keep going. Coffee people really understand this. And I am a coffee people as much as I'm a Diet Coke people. There is coffee, and then there is the first cup of coffee when the house is quiet, and mine's sitting right here. Craig is out running. That was my first sip of the coffee of the day. It's amazing. And I'll tell you why I'm recording the rest of this podcast on Friday, because one of my little pleasures that makes me so dang happy happened during my recording of this podcast yesterday. I was recording this podcast yesterday. This is the third one I do. I do all three podcasts in one day. And I do Inside Marcy's Mind Last. And I was doing it and I looked down and my phone was ringing, and it was my son Alec. Well, let me tell you something, people. There is nothing that's going to stop me from talking to that boy. So I paused the podcast. We had an amazing conversation. It lasted so long that Craig came home. And once that happens, I couldn't do it. So I thought when I get up tomorrow morning, I'll finish the podcast because I like to have these out on Friday for you. So it will be out this Friday. You it will be here this just as soon as I'm done, it'll be up. But one of my little pleasures talking to my kids on the phone or texting with them. For me, that phone call or that texting exchange with my kids is actually my greatest pleasure. But little pleasures can come in all kinds of ways. Like that first sip of coffee. You hold that coffee with two hands. For approximately three minutes, you believe that you are the kind of person who will spend the day calmly and thoughtfully completing one task at a time. Okay, it's a dream, people. And it does happen right after I have that first sip of coffee. Does it last? Umes it last for three minutes? Probably not, but it's a good try. Because you look at your phone and that fantasy ends. But those three minutes were beautiful. Okay, just remember that. There is this other great joy that you probably don't think about ice. The joy of ice, good ice. And those of you that have the joy of ice, you know what I mean: the little crunchy ice. Sometimes people call it restaurant ice, the ice that makes the drink taste better, even though logically it's just frozen water. Not all ice is equal. Some ice is too large, some ice sticks together in one enormous glacier, some ice jumps out of the freezer dispenser and lands everywhere except the glass, but the right ice, another little gift. Because I want you to remember what we're talking about today. We're talking about little gifts. All right. Now there is a cool breeze on a hot day. It's one of those moments when nature seems to say, I know,

Weather Moments That Shift Your Mood

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this is a lot. Here you go. You're hot, you're sticky, your hair has made decisions without consulting you. Then suddenly a breeze comes through, not a storm, not enough wind to blow your belongings into the next county. Just a soft, cool summer breeze. And for a moment, everything is perfect. And um, back when I was young, there was a song called Summer Breeze. And uh yeah, a whole song about a summer breeze. It feels personal, like the universe noticed you were struggling and turned on a fan. The same thing happens when the sun comes out after several gray days. You walk outside and think, oh, there you are. Or that first really comfortable day after a stretch of heat. Oh my gosh. After we had like a week of really intense weather here. And that first morning you woke up and it was cool and I could open the windows. I'm a window opener, even though I live downtown. I have windows that can open, and uh, not everybody does. And I open them every chance I get because it's not a lot, because all winter you cannot open them, even though the cat yells at me to open them, I cannot. So opening a window is one of my little pleasure to feel the air. But that first comfortable day after a stretch of heat, it hits different. People are suddenly friendlier, dogs look happier. Everyone starts walking around as though they personally negotiated the weather. Okay, now here comes one of my tiniest pleasures: fall. Fall has its own tiny pleasures. The first day you can put on a sweater without sweating underneath it, that first crisp morning, the smell of leaves, the moment you realize the mosquitoes have finally been defeated, then winter, and I remember last year's first snowfall. It was spectacular. Winter gives us the first snowfall, but before it becomes dirty sidewalk slush and a personal attack. And I have sent, I have on my Instagram put a picture of a giant black snowpile that had been sitting there since the first snow. Um, that first snow last year happened when Alec was here visiting and it was Thanksgiving weekend, and it was spectacular. For the city, our usually our first snowfall doesn't stick because everything's so warm. This one did, and it was spectacular. Spring gives us that first day when you can go outside with putting without putting on every item of clothing you own. Weather can change your mood without asking permission. And when it gives you the exact thing you need a breeze, a warm patch of sun, a gentle rain when you are safely inside is one of the life's finest little pleasures. And you know, I had that little pleasure. I had to get home from the gym before it rained last week. And I did, and it was a spectacular rain when I got home. Had thunder, lightning, everything. But guess what? I didn't get wet. Food moments

Food Joys And Feeling Cared For

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that deserve applause. Food gives us so many tiny moments of happiness. I'm not even talking about a fancy diner. Fancy dinner diner. A fancy dinner. I am talking about the French fry at the bottom. Oh, the bottom of the bag French fry. Oh, I even had that the other day. I had stopped and got a Diet Coke at Portillo's on my way home from the doctor's, and I treated myself to crinkle fries. They have crinkle fries, a small bag. And I ate it and I thought, oh, it's all done. And I reached around and I got a bag fry. There's nothing better than when you think you're done with a good batch of fries, and there's a bag fry. Or when you cut into an avocado that is perfect, not hard enough to bounce, not brown and emotionally damaged, perfect. That deserves applause. How about toast that comes out exactly right? Golden brown, crispy around the edges, still soft in the middle, and the butter melts spectacularly. You stand there and think, look what I have accomplished. Is it toast? It is toast, but let us have our small victories. A perfectly right peach over a kitchen sink. I know somebody that loves this one, popcorn at the movies. Loves popcorn at the movies. How about that first bite of pizza when you're really, really hungry? Finding out somebody brought donuts. Oh my gosh, when I was working and I saw a pink box coming in the office with little grease marks on it, I knew it was going to be a good morning. Having leftovers in the refrigerator that are your favorite. Yesterday I had the left, the rest of the pasta salad I had made over the weekend. And in my house, my pasta salad is legendary. Alec makes it for um his climbing trips. It gives him the great car brush, and Kyle loves it. So there was some of that fabulous pasta salad left over, and I had it for dinner last night. These are small but powerful sentences, and there is a special happiness in somebody making food for you. It doesn't have to be elaborate. Someone handing you a sandwich and saying, I made you one. Can you feel that love? Yes, and nobody ever does that for me. So that's a sad one for me. But if they do it for you, oh my gosh, it's great. Some remember someone remembering how you take your coffee. Oh, my favorite is my my bestie, Lynn. If we're staying in a hotel and we only have in-room coffee, we'll go down and get us our coffees in the morning. And I love that. It makes me feel so special. So, Lynn, if you're listening, that little thing that you do is not so little, and it means the world. Someone saying, You have the last piece of something, cake, donut, whatever it may be. Someone saying, I know you like these, so I picked picked you up some. That is love hiding

When Life Works The First Time

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in a grocery bag. How about when things work the first time? One of adulthood's greatest pleasure is when something works exactly as it was intended. You put the key in the lock, it turns smoothly. You send something to the printer and it prints. Here's my favorite. The password works. How about a fitted sheet going it on the right direction for the first time? They're now putting labels on them. Bottom left corner. I've noticed that. I really like that. Another small pleasure that makes me very happy. You know, you plug something in and it immediately starts charging. You don't have to jiggle anything, you don't have to wiggle anything. You open a jar without having to hit it with a spoon, run it under hot water, wrap it in a towel. I my hands are so bad now that doesn't happen often for me anymore. The remote control works. How's that? The website, again, accepts. Your password, the coupon scans, the customer service representative answers your question without transferring you to six departments and eventually back to the first person. These moments are thrilling because we have all been trained by experience to expect trouble. And like I said, it's by experience. It's not like we're just the doom and gloomers. I mean, how many times do things not work? How many times do all the things that I just said not happen? A lot. So when technology works, we are suspicious. You click submit and the confirmation comes up immediately. You stare at the screen and you think, that's it. We're done. No error message. No red box, you didn't fill this in. No red box, you didn't check, check that. No request to create a new password containing two capital letters, three numbers, a symbol, your childhood nickname in the blood of a unicorn. Beautiful, we say. Sometimes joy is simply the absence of unnecessary difficulty. I'm going to say that again because first of all, I didn't say it great. And I think it was a genius line. Sometimes joy is simply the absence of unnecessary difficulty. How about that

Canceled Plans And The Joy Of Nothing

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joy of cancellation? Now I understand this. We we this may make me sound slightly antisocial, and I'm not, but there is a very specific joy that occurs when plans are canceled, and you did not have to be the one to cancel them. You wanted to see the person, you truly did. You were looking forward to it when you made the plans, but now the day has arrived. You are home, you work in comfortable clothes are on, and your enthusiasm has left the building. Then the text comes, I'm sorry, can we reschedule? And of course, you reply, Oh no, I hope everything is okay because you are a good person. But privately, a choir of angels is singing. Suddenly, the entire evening opens up before you. You have been handed time, unexpected, unscheduled time. That is a great joy. It is a small, great joy. You can watch television, read, order dinner. Do nothing. We have made doing nothing sound like a character flaw. It's not. Doing nothing is underrated. What did you do today? Nothing wonderful. Was anyone injured? Did the roof collapse? Did society crumble because you sat on the couch and watched three episodes of something? No, it didn't. And I am I am the queen of getting it done and having do nothing time. Then perhaps nothing was exactly what you needed. Doing nothing. There is joy in an empty square on the calendar. There is joy in a morning where you have nowhere to be. Wednesday I had an empty square on the calendar other than working out. But other than that is a must, and that is a joy for me. There is a joy in realizing you have one more day before the thing you thought was tomorrow. Have you ever thought that? Like, oh, tomorrow I've got to, oh no, it's not until Friday. And you're like, oh, I got another day. Funny, right?

Taking Off Outside Clothes Relief

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Oh, there's small social moments. A neighbor holding the elevator. Someone, you know, waving you into a spot when you're trying to merge, someone laughing at your joke. Somebody saves you a seat. When somebody saves you a seat, it means I expected you. I wanted you here. There's room for you beside me. And let me tell you, we have coffee every day after working out. And we may not drink coffee, but it's at a little coffee place in the mall, right? Where we come up the escalator from our gym. And we try to gather as many chairs as we can so that when somebody else comes up, they've got a place to sit. Because it tells them that we want them there. It's important. Taking things off. How about a bra?

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Shoes after a long day, tight pants, a name tag. Oh, nothing better than taking off a name tag. It means the event is over. How about a heavy coat? If you don't live in somewhere where you wear heavy coats, taking off a heavy coat is just as great as taking off your bra. Mark my words. There's a specific noise a woman makes when she takes her bra off at the end of the day. And I'll just leave it at that. Well, maybe I'll tell you. It's kind of somewhere between a sigh and a spiritual release. You are not simply removing a garment, you are returning to your natural habitat. And taking off shoes when your feet hurt, magnificent. You walk into the house, you kick those shoes off, and you have just completed a cross-country journey on foot. You have been standing for 45 minutes. Your feet do not care about facts. Taking off makeup can feel wonderful too. Washing your face, pulling your hair back, putting on soft clothes. These are all the little joys, and they do happen every day, all day. I just want you to notice them. Your outside clothes come off and your inside clothes go on. That's a that's a joy for some of us. Once the pajamas are on, the contract is binding and mine go on as soon as I possibly can put them on. I am not, I am not, especially in the winter, winter, opposed to putting my pajamas on at three o'clock in the afternoon. If my day is done and there is nothing left on that calendar, you bet your ass, and it's cold outside, those jammies are on. The jammies have spoken.

Little Luxuries And Coming Home

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There's some other luxuries I we forget to notice: a warm towel, a favorite mug, the cool side of a pillow, a parking space near the door. This is so underrated. A really good pen. There are pens, and then there are pens that glide across the paper like they were made specifically for your hand. You use it once and immediately become productive. Someone says, Can I borrow you a pen? And you say no. Or you give them another pen. A hot shower when you're cold, a cold shower when you're hot, a long shower when nobody needs you for anything. How about just the smell of coffee brewing? Fresh cut grass, a candle that actually smells like the label. Vanilla cookie should smell like a vanilla cookie. I am very picky about my candles, and I do love a candle. I burn one every day in the morning. Winter, spring, summer, fall. I will say fall, winter, early spring, they land a little different because it's so dark here, but I do burn a candle all the time. The first page of a new notebook. Your haircut right after you got it cut. Getting in your own bed after traveling. I know we talked about sheets in the beginning of this. And when Alec called, he asked me what I was doing. And I said, I'm working on one of my podcasts. He said, Oh, what are you talking about? I said, Well, I'm talking about the little pleasures in life. And I said, You calling is one of them. But I said, the one that I really love are clean sheets. And he just, you could hear it in him. Oh, I love clean sheets. And Alec does a lot of outdoorsy stuff where he gets very dirty and crody and climbing and greasy and dirty and all of that. He says, whenever he takes a long trip, he washes his sheets before he goes so that when he comes home and takes that home shower after being gone and out in the wilderness, he gets to get into clean sheets. And you know what? That just made my heart sing. So getting into your own bed after traveling has its own joys. No matter how lovely the hotel is, there's always that moment when you return home and you think, oh, my pillow, my blanket, my bathroom, my coffee maker. Travel is wonderful, but coming home has benefits. Found time and found money, found things are some of the greatest small joys there are. Finding an hour, finding 20 bucks in your pocket. All of those things are small joys. Having a doctor cancel an appointment, all of that makes me so happy. Or looking on my app before I go into CVS and seeing a coupon for 10 bucks off $15 purchase, things like that just make me so happy. Animals existing near us is another one. Having a cat, a dog, whatever your animal is, curl up next to you and choosing you. That means a lot. I woke up in the middle of the night and Patrick was on right next to me. He had made that choice in the middle of the night when I was sound asleep and couldn't even pet him. He needed to be near his mom. And in the middle of the night, I got a small joy. All right, once again, my podcasts are getting longer. I have a lot to say. Just the sound of happiness. I want you to think about that. The sound of happiness, whether it's music, a singer, a baby, uh, whatever it is, sounds can bring us happiness.

Noticing Joy In Hard Seasons

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Life can be hard. Even in good seasons, there are responsibilities, worries, changes, disappointments, and days when everything feels heavier than it should. Noticing little pleasures does not mean pretending hard things don't exist. It does mean forcing yourself to be cheerful. I'm sorry, it does not mean forcing yourself to be cheerful every second. And it definitely does not mean putting a positive quote over every problem and calling it solved. What I'm asking you to do is things are difficult, things can be sad, but I want you, even during those times, to notice the little joys. Little joys spark happiness. A breeze is still cool, a friend's laugh is still comforting when you're going through hard times. Clean sheets are still clean. Just remember, these little things give us somewhere soft to land. They remind us that a difficult day is not necessarily a completely bad day. Maybe the appointment was stressful, but the people at the front desk was kind. Maybe the traffic was terrible, terrible, but your favorite song came on. Maybe you had a hard conversation, but afterward you sat outside and felt the sun on your face. Life is rarely all good or all bad. It is usually a strange, a strange mixture. A little worry, a little laughter, a bill to pay, a good sandwich, a hard conversation, a beautiful sunset. All of it happening in the same day. And perhaps happiness is not getting rid of everything unpleasant, but maybe it's about becoming better at spotting the good moments when they appear.

Three-Moment Challenge And Closing

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This week's little happiness challenge, I want you to, I want you to notice three unplanned moments of happiness in your life. We spend so much of life trying to get somewhere else. The next trip, the next event, the next goal, the next season. But an awful lot of happiness is in between those big moments. It happens in the kitchen, the car, the grocery store, the phone, in bed with clean sheets, on the porch with a cool breeze, and a shared laugh, and a first sip of something cold, and that quiet moment when the house settles down for the night. Maybe happiness is not always something we have to chase. Maybe sometimes it's already sitting beside us, waiting for us to notice it. And maybe today the most important thing we can do is take a breath, look around, and say, wow, this is nice. Thank you for joining me today on Inside Marcy's Mind. I know this was a little longer than usual podcast. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope this episode helped you notice at least one little thing that makes your life better. This week we enjoy the clean sheets, we drink the Diet Coke, we stand in the breeze and notice it. Use the good cup, wear the soft jammies, and eat that surprise French fry. Your life does not have to be perfect to maintain perfectly wonderful moments. To contain, excuse me, perfectly wonderful moments. Please follow or subscribe wherever you listen. Share this episode with a friend who appreciates life's little pleasures, and leave a review. It helps more people find the show and join our conversations. Reviews are important and I do appreciate them. Until next time, keep laughing, keep noticing, and remember sometimes the smallest things make the biggest difference. Go out there and do something positive.