January 13, 2025 37 mins

Happiness isn’t a destination. For Peter Teuscher, it’s the feedback guiding your choices, beliefs, and the way you see the world. But what does that really mean, and how can we shift our understanding of happiness from something we chase to something we cultivate every day?

 

Peter, an executive coach and the author of “Rethinking Happiness,” shares how his own journey—from outward entrepreneurial success to inner fulfillment—led him to redefine happiness as a deeply personal and practical state of being. Why do so many of us feel stuck in the cycle of “I’ll be happy when…”? And how can we break free from beliefs that no longer serve us?

 

Through his insights, Peter offers a roadmap for creating more joy in life, from building small daily habits to challenging the stories we tell ourselves. If you’d like to learn more about how happiness fits into the entrepreneurial grind, this episode will leave you inspired to rethink what truly matters and how to align your choices with the life you want.

 

Quotes

  • “One of my coaching mottos is: awareness allows change. Happiness is a major component, and much of it comes down to changing the way we habitually believe and think.” (03:43 | Peter Teuscher)
  • “Happiness is this feedback that either the way I’m thinking about the world or the actions and choices that I’m making are really not on track or not in alignment with my values or the needs that I have.” (06:33 | Peter Teuscher) 
  • “We have this inner emotional guidance system that will, whether you call it your intuition or your instincts, when you have certain outcomes, you’ll feel emotions, disappointment or happiness or joy or satisfaction.” (07:28 | Peter Teuscher) 
  • “Sometimes we’ll believe something despite the facts. But a lot of times our beliefs are those things that we can’t necessarily prove one way or another, or we don’t have enough information to, so we just develop this belief about something. And so instead of asking yourself, is this belief true? I ask people to consider if this belief is useful.” (15:50 | Peter Teuscher) 
  • “Happy people tend to make better decisions that tend to be better citizens, neighbors, partners in relationships, because that happiness is this feedback that they’re on the right track and that they’re making the right choices.” (36:50 | Peter Teuscher)

 

Links

Connect with Peter Teuscher:

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-teuscher-7480257/

Website: https://www.peterteuscher.com/

 

Connect with Alex Raymond:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/afraymond/

Website: https://amplifyam.com/

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