Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If we're listening to this podcast, probably one of our biggest goals is to be happier in life.

And there's a lot of things that we can do actively to improve our lives. But sometimes it's just hard to find peace and

happiness in our lives. There's a lot of things in life that are keeping us from

being happy. Sometimes are little like getting stuck in traffic or waking up

with a really bad headache and sometimes they're big like being diagnosed with

cancer or having one of our parents die.

And the purpose of this podcast is to help us during these times when we're going through

hard times so that we can find happiness right here right now.

And today I want to talk about another thing that we can do that I haven't talked much about

over the years.

Perhaps because though it's not required, it definitely makes our life go better when it's present.

So today I want to talk about the inner circle or friends and or family that support us throughout our lives, people that are there for us

pretty much no matter what. And they're really there for us in two ways. When of course we're going through difficult times, there's someone we can when of course we're going through difficult times.

There's someone we can lean on and reach out to

and ask for help.

But also when we're having joys in life,

there's someone we can share those joys with, laugh with, and just find great

beauty in life with these other people, are deep inner circle of friends. Well, first, who are these people and how many of friends. Well first who are these people and how many of them do we need? I

remember when I was an undergraduate I had a psych professor of mine tell me that we

really have two choices in life. We can have a couple, two or three,

really close friends or we can have a lot of friends that are really not close to any of them.

And when he said this, it really made sense. Because if we're going to have

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