Jerry Banfield

Hear how I discovered the power of getting out of bed with my wife every morning in producing a happy mood immediately that morning. Twelve months after seeing that my life was consistently happier if I went to bed with my wife, I finally have noticed that if I get out of bed right away and help with my daughter in the morning, my day almost always starts off on a happy note. The amazing lesson I share today is the power of small decisions on happiness. I see being happy today as the product of making the right choices in life not on major things but on very minor things like when to get out of bed, what to say, when to eat, and when to go to sleep. Being conscious of the impact of these decisions allows me to act in a way that produces a consistent good feeling about life and to see that if I choose in the opposite way, I am knowingly choosing to suffer. Now when my wife gets out of bed, I realize my choices are to get up with her right away or to have a bad mood that morning. Seeing that clearly motiv