Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Happiness, peace, joy, just trying to make our lives better.

It's probably one of the main reasons we listen to this podcast.

And part of creating happiness in our lives is about

change, adjusting to changes and making changes in our lives so that we find more peace and joy in our lives. For example, we may

be in a job that we really don't like and we struggle with and we think about making

changes and we work towards making those changes, and then we implement them and make the change,

perhaps taking a different job, perhaps going back to school, perhaps simplifying our lives, so that we don't need to make all that money and can have

more free time. Or we may be in a marriage or a relationship that actually causes us more pain

than joy and it isn't making our lives better so we decide

to leave in order to improve our lives and be happier.

But in both these situations this may have an impact not just on our lives and making it better,

but it may have a negative impact on other people's lives.

For example, if we have children, how will they be affected by us leaving our spouse?

So finding happiness in our lives or creating happiness in our lives isn't always black and

white.

It can be more complicated than that. And we have to ask questions, questions

about the choices we make and the impact these choices are going to have in our lives and people around us. And in today's

podcast, that's what we're going to explore. How do we find happiness and

not necessarily create unhappiness in others.

Recently I received an email from one of our listeners

and he asked some really good questions

about this very question of happiness,

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