#198 Happiness - When We Get Bumped
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
When someone does something to us unexpectedly, how we react is a great teaching tool for learning what is going on inside of us. 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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| 0:16.6 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't know about where you live, but where I live there are a lot of coffee shops all over the place it seems like they're on every corner well today I want to share a |
| 0:21.1 | beautiful story that was given to me recently about coffee or if you're like me it can be about tea too. |
| 0:27.0 | Here's a story. |
| 0:29.0 | You're holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you |
| 0:34.8 | spill your coffee everywhere. |
| 0:37.7 | Why did you spill the coffee? |
| 0:40.3 | Well because someone bumped into me, of course. |
| 0:43.0 | Wrong answer. |
| 0:44.0 | You spilled the coffee because there is coffee in your cup. |
| 0:48.0 | Had there been tea in your cup, you would have spilled tea. |
| 0:51.0 | Whatever is inside the cup is what will spell out. |
| 0:55.0 | Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you, which will happen, |
| 1:01.0 | whatever is inside of you will come out. |
| 1:04.9 | It's easy to fake it until you get rattled. |
| 1:08.1 | So we have to ask ourselves, what's in my cup? When life gets tough, what spills over? |
| 1:16.0 | Joy, gratefulness, peace, humility? |
| 1:20.0 | Or anger, bitterness, harsh words and reactions. |
| 1:25.7 | You choose 100%. |
| 1:29.3 | Today let us work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affirmation, and |
| 1:37.0 | kindness, gentleness, and love for others. |
| 1:41.7 | Isn't that beautiful? I really like that. Unfortunately, I don't know who the author is, but |
| 1:47.9 | whoever they are. They wrote very wise words. So how is this story applicable to us and is there anything that we need to be careful |
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