The Happiness Challenge

Hello happiness seekers! I’m Klaudia Mitura and I’m on a mission to explore the best happiness habits that science has to offer. Like so many others, the pandemic cut me off from family and work – so I decided to use my training as a Psychologist to discover what science can tell us about the art of happiness. What I found set me on a path to joy – and now I’m sharing my journey with you! Each month I publish three linked episodes where I’ll be speaking to a leading expert, putting their tips to the test and sharing my findings (and feelings). From mindfulness to exercise and random acts of kindness, I’ll be shining a light on the simple happiness habits that can bring more joy to our lives. So join me as I embark on my challenge and together we can become more successful, resilient – and happy! Klaudia Mitura is the Learning and Development Manager at the Science Museum Group in the UK. In September 2025 she is publishing The Alphabet of Happiness - available to pre-order now: https://mybook.to/AlphabetofHappiness

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#11 Kindness & Happiness: being compassionate to others and yourself

After a quick break Kitty and Klaudia are back for the letter K, Kindness & Happiness. Their dare this week was to engage in three random acts of kindness. Initially they were in two minds about whether or not kindness packed enough of a punch but there's a dark side to kindness too don't you know! Support the show Learn more: https://thehappinesschallenge.co.uk/ Sign up to the newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7080235316728492032 Connect on Link...

Sep 29, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 11

#10 Jokes & Happiness: How to laugh more often and put others at ease

Kitty and Klaudia are joined by star of Ted Lasso; James Lance to talk about Jokes & Happiness. Together they explore the elements of a good joke, what are the different types of humour and how do they each impact your happiness. Their dare was to make as many people laugh as they could, a really fun week. Support the show Learn more: https://thehappinesschallenge.co.uk/ Sign up to the newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7080235316728492032 Connect...

Sep 08, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 10

#9 Innovation & Happiness: How to innovate and be creative

Every Week Kitty and Klaudia explore a topic through a dare and discuss how it impacted their happiness. This week they look at 'Innovation & Happiness' and tried to innovate something in their day to day life. Tune in to find out what it really means to innovate, when innovative ideas might be more likely to come to you and do we innovate because we're happy, or are we happy because we're innovating? Follow on Instagram for more ideas son how to boost your happiness @AndHappinessOfficial Kl...

Sep 01, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 9

#8 Habits & Happiness: How to build wellbeing habits that stick

Every Week Kitty and Klaudia explore a topic through a dare and discuss how it impacted their happiness. This week they had to try and form a new habit. Either writing morning pages every day or reading. Tune in to discover how to build new habits and how to kick the bad habit in the teeth. Be aware that willpower won’t save you this time but removing your batteries from the remote control might be just the thing we all need to form happy habits necessary for happier living. Follow on Instagram ...

Aug 25, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 8

#7 Gratitude & Happiness: How to look on the bright side

This week Kitty & Klaudia discuss Gratitude and how it affects our happiness. They were on an absolute HYPE and you can hear it throughout the episode. "The dare of sending each other gratitude messages was by far our favourite. Simply because gratitude is this super-powerful emotion that unlocks the door to happiness. However, don’t be fooled, as with everything in life there were obstacles on the way." Tune in to discover how to play Tetris with gratitude to build more happiness in your li...

Aug 18, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 7

#6 Freedom & Happiness: How to feel empowered and focused

Tune in to discover how freedom of choice and attitude can help us to concentrate on our happiness more often but be aware that if freedom and happiness had a Facebook profile, their relationship status will be “it’s complicated”. The topic of freedom was a very ambitious subject with a grand question of how much freedom do we need to be truly happy? Through the dare of doing one thing that we have freedom to do but we take it for granted, we have discovered different types of freedom in our liv...

Aug 11, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 6

#5 Empathy & Happiness: How to be empathetic and forgive others

If we wish to improve the happiness in our relationships with others, empathy seems to be a key. Our busy life gave us plenty of opportunities to practice our dare of being more empathetic from an argument with a stranger to receiving bad news. Listen to our discussion circling around psychological studies and French Renaissance philosophy to arrive at the discovery of what does it mean to be truly empathetic in real life and how that can build more happiness in your relationships. Follow on Ins...

Aug 04, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 5

#4 Dreams & Happiness: How to set bold dreams and be excited about the future

Feeling good about the future is important for our happiness. We have assumed that setting a bold dream that will make us happy will be easy but instead as part of our dare we run into a challenge of setting dreams that actually could harm our happiness. Tune in to learn more about our windy road of business targets, dreamlines and daily progress to finally arrive at the destination of appreciating a dream of “being” a better person rather than “doing” or “having” more. Deep stuff including an i...

Jul 28, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 4

#3 Courage & Happiness: How to have more courage to get the happiness you want

The dare in this episode made us so anxious that we both tried to avoid it! In the end (10 minutes before the recording for one of us) we persevered and managed to share some of our private, creative pieces of writing with other people. After all that agony, our happiness and excitement went through the roof! Listen to this episode to find out how we found courage, what helped us to face our fears and what we can learn from the heroes around us. Follow on Instagram for more ideas son how to boos...

Jul 16, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3

#2 Boundaries & Happiness: How to set healthy boundaries and be assertive

The dare to set boundaries in our relationships was tough! Our primary need to belong is very strong, especially when social relationships are so crucial to our happiness. But we are now grown up and we know that we need to belong, smartly! Join us in this episode to see what helped us to set healthy boundaries in our relationships and what traps we managed to avoid. From the ‘belonging bubble’ to ‘dilemmas of conforming’, it feels like we have seen it all this week! Follow on Instagram for more...

Jul 16, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 2

#1 Acceptance & Happiness: How to radically accept emotions

We know from experience that change is an inseparable part of our lives and yet we often struggle to accept it. In this episode, we are embarking on the journey of radical acceptance - the daily practice of putting a pause between our emotions and the next action we take. Tune in to find out how our dare to 'radically accept our daily lives' impacted our happiness and how we stumbled upon the ‘happiness paradox’. Follow on Instagram for more ideas son how to boost your happiness @AndHappinessOff...

Jul 16, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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