Marci Shimoff Speaks on Love & Happiness
Through her research, Marci discovered that everyone is born with a “Happiness set-point.”
By Dawn Allcot
For bestselling author and transformational speaker Marci Shimoff, happiness truly is a state of mind, but that wasn’t always the case. Although she seemingly had everything she wanted, including a great career, a husband, wonderful friends, a comfortable home and a healthy body, it wasn’t enough.
“Like many people, I set goals for myself in my 20s. I thought as soon as I reached all those goals, I’d have everything I needed to be happy. But I had all of those and I still wasn’t happy.”
Unlike many people, Marci was fortunate to know, from a young age, what she wanted to do to make a living and make a difference in the world. “When I was 13,” she tells OMTimes, “I heard my first motivational speaker, Zig Ziglar. I knew right away, this was what I was supposed to do with my life. I saw him walking on the stage, inspiring people with his words, and something resonated in side of me. But, as an adult, I still had to decide what I was going to speak about and teach about.”
She examined her own life and discovered the key component she felt was missing: Happiness. This sent her on a spiritual quest to figure out how to be happier, so that she could teach others to do the same. The result was her bestselling book Happy for No Reason.
Through her research, Marci discovered that everyone is born with a “happiness set-point.” She likens it to a thermostat for our own happiness. “Happiness doesn’t have to do with circumstances,” she says. “We return to our happiness set-point, eventually, no matter what happens. But 90 percent of your happiness set point can be altered by changing your happiness habits.”
That’s where Happy for No Reason comes in, with 21 life-changing ways to raise your own happiness set point. “This stuff works,” Shimoff says, her own happiness and light shining through as we chat on the phone on a hot summer evening. “I went from a D + to an A – in happiness, and I’ve been able to stand as a witness to thousands of people who say they’re so much happier now that they’ve done the practices in Happy for No Reason.”
OM Times Magazine » syndicated
