Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I really think one thing is true that I've found

after working with clients now for over 30 years and living for over 50 is that we really want to be happy.

That is our goal.

But unfortunately we go about it the wrong way and that's why we don't find it. But today I want to talk a really solid way to approach

happiness and it goes back to Egypt. Years ago when I was in graduate school I had the opportunity

to go to Egypt in the Middle East for three months.

And while I was there, I was able to climb up all the way to the top to one of the pyramids

and it was truly spectacular. You could see all of Cairo and the other pyramids and it just really took my breath away. I truly loved it.

And I don't know if you know this, but those pyramids have been there a long time,

perhaps even older than 4,000 years. That's a long time to be around and still standing. So how do they do it? How do those pyramids last so long?

Well the key is geometry and this goes back to Euclid and simply put if you have a square base and four sides and they go up to a point, that's a very solid structure.

Very solid. Thus, it lasts for over 4,000 years, truly spectacular. Well you know, happiness is much like a

pyramid. Let me explain. It goes back to what I talked about earlier in this podcast is that we really do all seek happiness.

But unfortunately, even though that's what we want, we don't go about getting it in very

wise ways. What we do is we put other things first instead of our

happiness and so we don't do well. It's like creating an upside down pyramid.

So in order to find happiness, we do have to prioritize.

Listening to this podcast is one of the priorities that we can do to find happiness.

And that takes time and that takes effort.

And this should be the bottom base of our foundation that we are

seeking to have peaceful beautiful lies towards others and towards ourselves.

That takes work, that takes effort.

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