Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. The weekends, ah, the beautiful, wonderful

weekends that we work so hard to enjoy and we spend the week just getting ready for them. Our anticipation of the

weekend can often help us get through the week when it's a trying taxing week. Here in parts of

the U.S. we actually have a restaurant called T GIF. Thank God that's Friday

just to celebrate the weekends to really remind people it's all about the weekend.

Similarly, I think vacations can have the same mystique to them.

It's all about the vacation. We work 50 weeks a year, work super hard so that we can have those two weeks of

R&R, relax, sit back and enjoy life. It's just

so wonderful looking forward to our vacations and we really are excited about them.

You may have guessed, but I am going to actually challenge our belief system today,

our belief system for living for the weekend or living for vacation, because I think actually

it's very unhealthy and we need to approach to life in a different way so that we can find happiness not just on the weekends, not just on vacation, but all the time.

So how does it work? Why do occasions, why do weekends cause us to wait?

Wait that is for happiness. If you're new to this podcast, you may not know something that

I teach pretty regularly. It's that

happiness is always present. We actually get in the way of it. Happiness is far

more about removing things, particularly our egos, and not attaching things or getting

things which get in the way of our happiness.

So why do weekends, why do occasions get in the way of our happiness?

What's going on here?

It's slightly subtle, which is why we don't notice it.

But let me use a more extreme example that I can point out is really working the exact same way,

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