When Your Actions Don’t Match Your Values = Unhappy

I’ve been off lately. Short-tempered, not very kind, definitely not the dad I want to be. And after some thinking (and finally listening to Simon Sinek on the High Performance podcast with Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes), I figured out why.

I wasn’t living in line with my values. Who I say I am on the inside hasn’t matched how I’ve been acting on the outside. And when that happens, happiness feels impossible.

So in this episode, I’m walking and talking through what that looks like in real life — from losing my cool with my kids to realizing I just need to let my daughter check the mail for the fifteenth time. Happiness isn’t waiting somewhere down the road; it’s in the small, annoying, ordinary things we already have.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re not living as the person you say you are, this one’s for you.