Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

If you're a regular listener to this podcast, you may have noticed that I skipped last week.

I skipped that week because I was on vacation in Switzerland.

You may not know this, but there's a World Happiness Report

produced by the UN which began in 2012,

and it ranks 158 countries on happiness. It's really not the same thing we're talking about here because it's based upon income, life expectancy, government corruption.

But interestingly, in 2015, Switzerland was ranked the number one country in the world in regards

to this happiness report.

But even in the happiest country in the world, things can still go wrong, as they can in any of our lives.

But when things go wrong, how do we let them not affect our day, our week, our life, or our vacation.

Because one of the absolute guarantees in life is

is that things aren't going to go the way we expect them to,

the way we want them to. So what do we do when that happens? How do we let these things

that happen that are disconcerting at a time not ruin our vacation or our lives? Let me tell this story that happened on my

vacation with my family in Switzerland. And you're going to see that it really

wasn't bad. It wasn't bad at all, but it could have been. It all depends upon how we look at things and how we look at things shape our lives.

If we look at things as things need to go a certain way and then they don't, we're going to suffer.

So the first thing we need to do is lower expectations.

But we'll probably still have a few.

For example, when we arrived to Switzerland, I had made hotel reservations, and when I got there,

there was no one there to check in. I had rented a two bedroom apartment so that we could all

sleep well after the long flight.

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