Reflection Exercise to Boost Happiness and Fulfillment | 2 Minutes of Motivation with Kristel Bauer
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Episode Summary
In this solo episode of the Live Greatly Podcast, Kristel Bauer shares a simple yet powerful reflection exercise designed to help you reconnect with what truly brings you happiness, fulfillment, and meaning.
Building on insights from a recent keynote and her conversation with Corinne Low, PhD, Kristel guides listeners through thoughtful questions that encourage self-awareness, intentional living, and personal growth.
These reflection prompts help you evaluate whether your time and energy are aligned with your values, identify what brings you natural joy, and uncover where small changes can create a positive ripple effect in your life.
If you’re feeling busy, disconnected, or unsure where to focus, this short episode offers practical tools to help you reset, refocus, and move forward with clarity.
Key Takeaways From This Episode
How reflection supports happiness and fulfillment
Questions to help you reconnect with joy and purpose
Identifying what truly matters in your daily life
Why playfulness and fun are essential for well-being
How to realign your time and energy with your values
Using self-awareness to create positive change
Simple habits that support long-term success
About the Host
Kristel Bauer is a corporate wellness and performance expert, keynote speaker, and TEDx speaker who delivers engaging, science-backed keynotes that drive measurable results for organizations. With a rare combination of clinical medical training and real-world business expertise, Kristel helps leaders and teams improve performance, resilience, well-being, and workplace culture—without burnout.
As an Integrative Medicine Fellow and Physician Assistant with clinical experience in Integrative Psychiatry, Kristel brings medical credibility and evidence-based insight to the stage. She translates cutting-edge research on mindset, behavior change, and peak performance into practical, actionable strategies audiences can immediately apply. Her high-energy keynotes are tailored to support leadership development, team engagement, productivity, and sustainable success—while inspiring audiences to “Live Greatly.”
Kristel is the award-winning author of Work-Life Tango: Finding Happiness, Harmony, and Peak Performance Wherever You Work (John Murray Business, November 19, 2024) and the creator and host of the globally ranked self-improvement podcast Live Greatly. She is a contributing writer for Entrepreneur, was named a Forbes Top 10 Social Media Influencer, and was recognized as a 2026 Top Impact Speaker by Real Leaders—highlighting her influence at the intersection of leadership, well-being, and business performance.
Kristel’s prior clients include AbbVie, BP, Cognizant Technology, General Mills, Home Depot, Santander Bank, among many more. She has appeared on major media outlets including NBC News Daily, ABC News Live, FOX Weather, ABC 7 Chicago, and WGN Daytime Chicago. Based in the Chicago area and available for engagements worldwide, Kristel Bauer is an ideal keynote speaker for conferences, events and leadership summits seeking a dynamic, medically credible voice on peak performance, happiness, well-being, and leadership in today’s workplace.
Learn more at: https://www.livegreatly.co
Edited Transcript
Reflection Exercise to Boost Happiness and Fulfillment: 2 Minutes of Motivation
Live Greatly Podcast — Hosted by Kristel Bauer
Kristel Bauer:
For today’s episode of 2 Minutes of Motivation, I’m going to share some reflection questions to help you create a more fulfilling life.
Earlier this week on the show, I spoke with Corinne Low, PhD, author of Having It All, about key contributors to fulfillment at work and in life. Today, I want to dive a little deeper into that topic by sharing questions I recently used in a workshop called Effectively Manage Stress and Learn How to Do the Work-Life Tango.
These questions are designed to help you reflect on what’s going well in your life — and what might need more attention.
Take a moment to think about each of these as I share them.
First question:
When was the last time you felt truly happy?
What was happening in your life at that time?
What activities were you doing?
Second question:
What are the things that spark natural joy in you?
Are you making these things a priority in your life?
After a recent keynote, someone shared with me that they wanted more fun and playfulness in their everyday life. Over time, when things get busy, we often set aside the activities that light us up. This question helps you reconnect with those sources of joy.
Third question:
What would you do for free?
If money weren’t an issue, how would you choose to spend your time?
Your answers to these questions can guide you toward where you should be investing your energy and attention. When you focus on what’s truly meaningful, it creates a positive ripple effect across every area of your life.
There are many more tools and strategies for thriving in work and life in my book, Work-Life Tango: Finding Happiness, Harmony, and Peak Performance Wherever You Work.
If you’d like to explore this further, you can find it on Amazon.
Thank you so much for spending time with me today. If you enjoyed this episode, I’d greatly appreciate you leaving a review — it helps more people find and benefit from the show.
Until next time, this is Kristel Bauer with Live Greatly, inspiring you to awaken your ultimate potential.
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