Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. In this episode I want to share

with us a really big secret to happiness. But if we're able in this episode to

understand this secret, it's going to have a transformational power on our lives.

And I'm calling it a secret because very few people

actually get this and live this way, because we're taught the exact opposite.

What do I mean? Well beginning at a very young age and throughout our lives we're

taught that if we want to find happiness then we have to have certain

things happen. Call them goals, call them achievements, call them events that happen

in our lives. But when we have these events happen, then we'll find happiness. And we find them externally.

We look for things to happen externally. And then there's happiness.

Let me use an example.

When we're young, we're exposed to things like our

friends and media and television and radio and podcasts and all these external events

say, if I get this present for my birthday or for Christmas or

for Hanukkah then I'm going to be happy things are going to be great so we get all

excited for those presents and when those holidays come we are excited for a little bit of time but the problem

with it is it doesn't last we don't find permanent happiness we find thrills we find

exciting things but we're not permanently happy.

As a matter of fact, we can be shocked by how quickly young kids after they get their

presence, get over it. I mean, they don't even care.

It can be waiting for six months for something.

They get it and five, ten minutes later, they don't even care about the present anymore.

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