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.
