Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Remember the story of the tortoise and the hair where they're going to race?

And guess who wins? Not the hair, but the tortoise.

Then a few months ago on YouTube I saw a video about a tortoise and a hair having a real race.

It was a real tortoise and a real hair.

And sure enough, the tortoise won.

It won because a rabbit was running all over the place backwards, forwards, and didn't go straight.

Where the tortoise just went straight at a much slower pace, but it won.

Well, over the past 25 years of helping people improve their lives, the one thing

I've learned is tortoises really do win the race of life. And what the tortoise does is the

tortoise just plugs away.

It just keeps moving forward on the direction that it's headed

and it makes course corrections when it needs to, but it just keeps moving

forward until it reaches a skull. And I think life is like that in really almost all arenas.

Many years ago, my sister's husband's parents were hard-working blue-collar workers. He had worked as

a janitor throughout his life and saved his money and was able to buy a home, pay off his bills, and did quite well given that he had a normal type job.

Well when he retired, they got the itch to do better to make more.

So they cashed in all their money, their house money, and their retirement money, and invested

in a business.

And within six months, after he'd saved 40 years, he lost it all. It took him 40 years to save all this money and six

months to lose it. So I really do think in many ways Tortoise has won the race of life but let's refer it today about

happiness how do tortoises win the race of life in regards to happiness? The

first thing we have to do is we have to commit to being happy because it is a lifetime process.

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