#161 Happiness - Living Well With Uncertainty
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast we explores how we can find peace and happiness now with the uncertainty of the future. To learn more about the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org. To learn more about Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:12.7 | The future. |
| 0:14.3 | We love to know the future. |
| 0:17.0 | People around the world can spend so much money going to a psychic and having him or her predict their future telling them what's going to happen. |
| 0:26.3 | We may not believe in psychics, but do we, when we buy that stock on the stock exchange, |
| 0:32.1 | think or really hope that it's going to go up? |
| 0:34.8 | We bought it because we believed it was going to go up, and if it doesn't, we can get quite |
| 0:38.9 | upset. |
| 0:40.3 | And there's other ways we like to know the future. |
| 0:43.0 | When we choose someone as our mate to spend our lives with, we want to know that they're going |
| 0:47.4 | to be there to the very end and we're going to live happily ever after. We just like to know the future. It's fun. It makes life easier because then we can relax. Sit back and just enjoy the journey of life. Or maybe we go to college and we do really well in school and we have |
| 1:06.5 | the expectation that now we're going to get a great job and it just doesn't always happen. |
| 1:12.3 | Or we have expectations to make it into our 80s, maybe even |
| 1:16.0 | our 90s, living well, being healthy, maybe slowing down a bit, and then having our family around us and just falling asleep and having a really full |
| 1:26.2 | rich life with everyone being there everyone all our kids doing well our grandkids |
| 1:31.8 | doing well and just everything being wonderful. But again, that doesn't |
| 1:37.5 | always happen. Now some of us think we're a little more sophisticated, so guess what? We're going to eat well. We're going to exercise. We're going to do really well in school. Work really hard. Be a great partner to our spouse. Be a loving parent, and everything's going to work out great. |
| 1:56.5 | But it doesn't always. |
| 1:58.5 | Life has such an ability to be unpredictable, and we can put so much effort into something that really |
| 2:05.2 | matters to us and K bam it's all over and we have to adjust. It is true that sometimes it can go pretty well for a while. It can |
| 2:16.9 | be what seems to be fairly predictable. But then sometimes life just says nope. |
| 2:23.0 | I know you thought it was going to go this way, but guess what? |
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