Your environment has a huge impact on your emotions - and you can use it to feel happier. We can aggressively use style and design to maintain an elevated feeling state and get back to feeling happier more quickly when we're not feeling so great.   Here are the biggest takeaways from this episode: The relationship between our environments and how we feel can feel happier (this is about so much more than making spaces “look good”). A totally new way to think about design (hint: you matter). How to aggressively use style & design to create and maintain a happier feeling state. How being happier lends itself to better thinking (i.e. feeling good is TOTALLY worth making some small changes).   Hey there! Thank you for tuning in!  Today we’re talking about a how you can get yourself into a happier state of mind more often!  This is a topic that can affect every aspect of your life. Your environment has a huge impact on your emotions - - and the good news is - - design is something we have control over.  It’s one of the best tools around to help you create a happier state of mind. It can be as simple as the colors and textures and sizes of furniture in your home. Or maybe you need to set up a space in your home that’s just for you to relax and wind down? (My dad always had “his chair” and I think each of us deserves our own special place in our homes!) The key is to know where you are and what you want to feel - so you can always be reaching for the next better feeling! As always, my goal is to make it quicker and easier for you to access more ease, joy, and intention in your life...because happy looks really, really good!   Enjoy the show! BONUS CONTENT To help you get started, we've got really great bonus content for today’s show. We're sharing our "How To Access a Happy State Of Mind" guide so can you identify where you are right now and the next higher feeling you can reach for in your quest for a happy state of mind. (I think some of these will surprise you!) You can use this one-page guide to check in with yourself, identify the happier feeling you want to feel, and set up your environment with whatever supports you need to get there. I recommend you download it - right now - so you’ll have it anytime you need a little help -all you have to do is identify where you are now and reach for the next best emotion. It's so much easier to take small steps toward a happier state of mind, than to attempt a big leap. Give it a shot this week - now’s the best time to start taking control of how you feel. Click HERE to get the bonus content and we’ll send it out right away! ________   In case you'd rather read than listen... FULL TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE #3 HOW TO ACCESS A HAPPY STATE OF MIND Welcome to the Style With Intention podcast, where we talk about how to use your personal style as a tool to create the life you want to live. We believe choice is empowering, complacency is boring, and happy looks really, really, good! Hi there and welcome to the show. I’m your host, Annie Kip and today we’re talking about how you can get yourself into a happier state of mind more often. As an interior decorator, you would think that I’m all about making things look nice. And I do love pretty spaces and all the pictures I see in glossy magazines. Perfectly styled rooms are great, but they aren’t all there is to my kind of interior design. For me, there is an important element of psychology in interior design that often gets overlooked. If we were to sit together over a cup of tea, and I were to tell you what I really think about when I am helping a client work on their space, you would hear me talk more about being happy than about fabrics, or lighting, or furniture layouts. Sure those are the tools I use, but creating more experiences of “happy” is what I do. It’s intentional work. I believe