Welcome to the happiness podcast.

The happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

Here on the happiness podcast we talk a lot about how to be happy, how to make

our lives go well, how to find peace and joy in our daily lives on a regular basis.

But we all know people who say they're happy, perhaps even ourselves, and then along comes

a bump and they're not happy anymore.

It's almost as if they were pretending being happy

or had fooled themselves into thinking that their lives are going great.

And then all of a sudden it wasn't.

So in today's episodes, we definitely don't want to judge others or ourselves, but we do want to explore if there's a way to tell that life truly is going well, and when the bumps come, we handle them well.

Is there anything that we can look towards to say, yeah, I can tell my life

is improving because of this? For example, when most of us are on vacation, it should be a

happy time where things are going well, don't have to work and we can just

focus on exploring the world.

Yet how many people do we know when we go on vacation?

They may choose to get really drunk the entire time, just to numb themselves or if something goes

wrong like they miss their flight or their luggage doesn't arrive, they get really angry and

yet they're on vacation.

Why does that happen?

Or as I said earlier, we all know people who lives seem to be going pretty well.

Then something happens, some form of tragedy,

and as if their lives fall apart. Sometimes they even reach the point of committing

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