Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. If we're listening to this podcast, then one question is probably going through our minds.

What do I need to do to be happy?

I think where a lot of people get confused about happiness and peacefulness is they think it's a

it's a state, something that you arrive at and you stay at for the rest of your lives.

Basically, there are unhappy people and there are happy people.

And that's pretty much the way they are. If they're happy, then they're

happy no matter what. If they're unhappy, no matter what, they're going to be

unhappy. Some people see happiness or unhappiness more as like a trait, say eye color or hair color.

Yeah, you can make some changes and mostly if you're happy, you're happy.

But like I said earlier, probably if you're listening to this podcast, you do want to be happier.

You want to improve your life.

That's why we all are trying to learn about how to be happy.

One of the lessons that I've learned along the way about happiness is that

happiness is something that we work at and we keep working at if we want to

maintain that level of happiness and peace. It isn't a state that we arrive at

and that we stay at for the rest of our lives.

It's something that we achieve and we stay at the rest of our lives if we keep working at it.

It's very much like being in top physical shape.

We can get into excellent shape.

As long as we eat well, we exercise, and we make sure that we're doing things to improve

our overall health. And the really great thing about happiness, unlike physical health, when we're physically

healthy, no matter how healthy we are, as we get older, our bodies are going to slow down.

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