Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. The title of this podcast, Life Didn't Go As Planned, and that's okay.

Came from one of those Instagram posts that you see floating out there.

Its actual message was this, it was a little long so I shortened it.

It says, my entire life can be described in one sentence. It didn't go as planned and that's

okay.

I wasn't able to find out the originator of this post, but it's a good one.

In my own life, at a fairly young age, I was exposed to the ideas of writing down goals, having goals, and working towards goals.

I've used them throughout my life and they truly are an effective way to get things done.

I continue to use them to this very day and now with

the iPhone and modern technology it's so easy to update them. And I'm sure of the 7 billion people

on our planet right now.

Some people set up goals and they happen exactly as they plan them to happen.

They have ideas for their lives, things that they want to work towards,

and that's what happens.

But for the majority of us we establish goals

were either written down or spoken out loud or thought up in depthly and it just

doesn't always work out the way we planned. And as that beautiful quote said at the beginning of this podcast,

that's okay.

As I said, goals are awesome, they really are, but life just doesn't always work out the way we

expect it to. There are so many variables that can affect the way our lives turn out. And that's okay. And we truly vary in our desires for our plans for our life.

I think most of us would say we'd like to live probably into our 80s, maybe into our 90s. A few people may want to live

to their hundreds, as long as they're very healthy, but most of us want to live a full life.

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