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Indigo Ocean Dutton, MA is a Community Leader at Conscious Professionals Community for professionals of color, the host of Conscious Business Leaders TV (CBL-TV) and business strategy consultant at Awaken Business Consulting. She is also the founder of the Phone Buddies Online Peer Counseling Community and author of “Being Bliss.” Her degrees include a BA from Brown University in International Commerce and an MA from the California Institute of Integral Studies in Counseling Psychology. She has served on the boards of several non-profits serving youths and also taught meditation to incarcerated teens. Her deepest commitment is to contribute to our social evolution as beings of love made physical.

Key Takeaways

Don’t just hope for happiness, experience happiness.
Take full responsibility for how you feel. You can’t control the world but you can control your emotions.
Changing your internal mindset can change your external circumstances.
It’s not about using happiness to create a circumstance, it’s about being happy.
Hope is an idea about a better future but happiness is an emotion of the present.
Happiness will come when you choose it. It will come when you are ready for it.