Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't know if this happened to you or is happening to you, but when I was a kid,

I was told over and over again that I should pray for patients it would make me a better person.

Now mind you, I've always been an observant person, and I could tell that a lot of the people giving me this advice,

even the adults, weren't very patient themselves.

But the other thing I was told that if you pray for patience, you're going to have a lot of

trials and tribulations because that's the way God teaches us to be patient.

So I did it.

I prayed to God for patience.

Now I have to admit, I don't know if there's a direct correlation that God's going to basically give us

Trials and tribulations if we pray for patients, but I did notice that in life there are a lot of things that require patients and life went a lot better when I developed that skill, that habit of being patient.

Now we may never really know for sure if the prayers that we do make any difference

until the day we die. I believe they do, but the other thing I believe is that when we do focus on something, that that gives it energy

and we start conditioning ourselves to do that which we're focused on.

So my hope is at the end of this podcast you'll be willing to

either pray for or at least work towards being more patient. I think you'll see

a lot of wisdom, power, and benefit in being patient. But why does patients matter? Well if you're

like me you probably live with other people and you have things you want to get done unless you're perhaps living

on a desert island or up in the woods, but then you're probably not listening to this podcast

very much either.

But if we are engaging with the world, we have what we would

call expectations. We like to get things done and we're hopeful they're going to go a certain

way.

...