Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. You may or you may not relate to this, but one of the things that I learned in the past that I wasn't very good at is putting things together. For example, when I got my first apartment, I got a book

case to put on my books on and it had to be assembled and I thought, well, that doesn't

sound very hard. So I started putting it together without unfortunately reading the instructions.

And on the back part of it, which was there to hold the books in place, there was a line right through the middle of it.

I thought, that's curious. So I cut it in half and then started putting it together because that's what I thought the line was for to cut it in half.

And it wasn't for that. It was a place where you were supposed to put the nails in to hold the board together against the back of the bookcase.

So I didn't completely destroy the bookcase, but it was a little bit not in the best shape when I was done putting it together.

But with time I realized that I could actually

be pretty good at putting things together as long as I followed the instructions and nowadays

with YouTube it's so easy as long as we follow the instructions of how to do it right.

But when I don't follow the instructions, I sometimes put things together not in the best order.

I don't know how early it was for you, but very early I figured out that life really didn't come

with a plan, a plan which said if you do this and that that everything would turn out well.

So I went about trying to find a plan and it took a long time to come up with

one. So in today's episode I want to share with their listeners what is perhaps, I know we may disagree, but what is the least perhaps

a good plan for living life?

Because I think when we have a plan, life tends to go better.

When we don't have a plan, like me putting things together, it just doesn't go as well.

So I'm going to share what I consider a good plan for living life, and I know not everyone may agree with it,

but at least spend a little time thinking about it and say, huh, I wonder if I went by this

plan if life might go pretty well for me.

For me, what's always been important is to keep things very simple. I don't like complicated

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