{"id":286962,"date":"2020-01-23T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1114884"},"modified":"2020-01-23T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:14:00","slug":"brooks-laich-is-putting-happiness-first-amid-julianne-hough-marriage-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/brooks-laich-is-putting-happiness-first-amid-julianne-hough-marriage-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks Laich Is &#8220;Putting Happiness&#8221; First Amid Julianne Hough Marriage Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"45.152671755725\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"30.763358778626\">\n<p><strong>Brooks Laich<\/strong> is putting happiness first.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old hockey player took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B7pUFlFnCNQ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram<\/a> on Wednesday to share how he&#8217;s putting joy at the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My new motto,&#8221; he wrote alongside a quote that read, &#8220;But first, happiness.&#8221; &#8220;Lately I&#8217;ve been re-assessing many things in my life, and one of the most important things I&#8217;ve been looking at is how I spend my time every day. I&#8217;m redefining my priorities and putting happiness at the forefront. I&#8217;m making changes to my daily routine and prioritizing the things that bring me the most joy. Everything else lines up behind those.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Laich then explained this marked the first week of his &#8220;new approach&#8221; and claimed he was &#8220;absolutely loving it&#8221; so far.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;I&#8217;m gonna play with it some more, dial it in, and then share with you what my day looks like,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m sharing this with you to encourage you to assess your life, how you are spending your time, and what you are prioritizing daily. Do you wake up with a &#8216;to-do&#8217; list every morning, or do you wake up and do things that bring you complete and utter happiness?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then encouraged his followers to share their thoughts on this approach and how it pertains to their lives.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.182085168869\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"18.825256975037\">\n<p>Back in December, Laich shared an Instagram post in which he claimed he&#8217;s &#8220;always working on becoming a better man.&#8221; He also shared a fill-in-the-blank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1106579\/julianne-hough-s-husband-brooks-laich-wants-to-learn-more-about-his-sexuality-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">template of his 2020 goals<\/a>, which included starting to play the piano again, having more space in his day and learning &#8220;more about intimacy and my sexuality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During a recent podcast episode, he also explained he&#8217;s learning about a new concept called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1114028\/brooks-laich-is-prioritizing-pleasure-amid-julianne-hough-marriage-speculation?query=brooks%20laich\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pleasure first<\/a>,&#8221; which he described as part of his &#8220;journey in 2020.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pleasure first is a new concept that I&#8217;m trying to, like, explore in my life because it&#8217;s not been,&#8221; he said during an episode of the <em>How Men Think<\/em> podcast. &#8220;It&#8217;s been almost last in the course of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34.285486443381\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202008\/rs_634x1024-200108143740-634-julianne-hough.18203.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Brooks Laich, Julianne Hough\" alt=\"Brooks Laich, Julianne Hough\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Broadimage\/Shutterstock <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"12.932006633499\">\n<p>2020 has certainly been a year of change for Laich. Earlier this month, a source told E! News Laich and his wife <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/julianne_hough\">Julianne Hough<\/a><\/strong> have been &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1109569\/julianne-hough-and-husband-brooks-laich-are-spending-time-apart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spending time apart<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t even really know what to call it,&#8221; an insider told E! News. &#8220;There&#8217;s a ton of love and emotion there and they are going through something very personal. She&#8217;s been very private about this&nbsp;time&nbsp;in her life and is not making any kind of official announcement. She is honoring her work commitments, as is he, and it&#8217;s kept them&nbsp;apart. But things have definitely changed in their relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hough and Laich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/865424\/dancing-with-the-stars-julianne-hough-and-brooks-laich-are-married\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tied the knot<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1114884\/brooks-laich-is-putting-happiness-first-amid-julianne-hough-marriage-trouble?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooks Laich is putting happiness first. The 36-year-old hockey player took to Instagram on Wednesday to share how he&#8217;s putting joy at the forefront. &#8220;My new motto,&#8221; he wrote alongside a quote that read, &#8220;But first, happiness.&#8221; &#8220;Lately I&#8217;ve been re-assessing many things in my life, and one of the most important things I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-03 23:31:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}