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Choose Your Words. Change Your Life.

Welcome to Happier Made Simple™: Choose Your Words. Change Your Life.

This community is for you if you want to Live Happier- Every Day , taking small, immediate steps.

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Randye Kaye 11/1/23 Randye Kaye 11/1/23

Lesson from an Inmate: Happiness Requires Connection

A whole new, and hopefully temporary world: I am currently mother on a (minimum security) inmate. But I am noticing one thing: Ben doesn’t seem that miserable. In fact, he sounds better than he has in months. Why? Because, for the first time in ages, he is connecting with other people. Is there a lesson in there for all of us.?

Randye Kaye 9/13/23 Randye Kaye 9/13/23

Laughter: The Sixth Language of Love

Laughter is a powerful , sixth, “love language” among those I call family- a language I learned as a child and carry with me still.

Yes, kidney donation is a big, serious deal, an act of love.

But, for my husband, brother, and me, the thing that gave it perspective was being able to joke about it - on the same wavelength.

Randye Kaye 8/11/23 Randye Kaye 8/11/23

We Interrupt This Screen for a Moment of Real Life

Research shows that a smartphone, face down and unanswered, between 2 people reduces the satisfaction level of both participants by over 40%. One of my Digital Wellness workshop attendees added , “Yes, it’s the modern equivalent of a loaded gun on the table between two characters in a Western.”

Priorities, people. And Real Life is high on that lis

Randye Kaye 5/5/22 Randye Kaye 5/5/22

Dear Grandma (or Grandpa), Tell Me About Your Life

You were born in Ukraine, the third of eight children. Married at 19.

You gave birth to your first child in the middle of unrest and violence: pogroms and attacks against your “Hebrew” (according to ship manifest info) people.

Your husband Harry became a refugee to America when your son, Morris. was just a toddler. That was the plan, as only one of you could afford to escape at a time,

What did you witness and experience while you waited to escape too?

How did you do it?

Randye Kaye 4/13/22 Randye Kaye 4/13/22

Happier: The Authentic and Resilient Foundation for Success

John Jaramillo and I had so much fun sharing ideas, that this Book Leads podcast/show went way over the hour! Hope you enjoy listening as much as we loved chatting about leadership, books, setting and reaching goals but with a solid foundation of what really matters in the big picture of your life:

Randye Kaye 3/6/22 Randye Kaye 3/6/22

Recommended Book : The Change Guidebook, by Elizabeth Hamilton Guarino

Change is part of life – both in reaction to life, and by proactively creating the change.

Elizabeth Hamilton Guarino’s new book, The Change Guidebook, will help you do the latter.

Randye Kaye 2/26/22 Randye Kaye 2/26/22

Happier Made Simple™ is an Audiobook Too!

If you've been hoping to hear Happier Made Simple "read by the author", you've got your wish! Soon it will be on Audible, but in the meantime you can get it through Kobo/Walmart or Chirp!

here is a sample:

Randye Kaye 2/20/22 Randye Kaye 2/20/22

Nine parenting Lessons Re-Learned: A Weekend of Grandbaby-sitting

Losing the tv remote can be a good thing. (Really, we didn’t fake it.) The morning was more creative, less argumentative, and they “forgot” to have the morning snack they usually think they need.