Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I grew up in Iowa and my grandfather was a farmer. And every summer I had the privilege

and honor to go spend some time with him, helping him on the farm and taking care of the vegetables and fruits that he

grew there.

Every day we go out to the fields and we would pick fruits, pull weeds, and just take care

of it. But during the summer when things were growing, it was a daily task.

He had to every day go out to the fields in order to keep that garden doing well.

Because what I remember is some of the farmers around my

grandfather's farm would let their fields go what you call fallow, which means

they just didn't do anything to them for that year. And what happened during the summers where the fields were left fallow

is they quickly returned to weeds and they didn't look anything like my grandfather's

beautiful farm that was so manicured and beautiful and rose were in perfect shape and everything just looked great.

As every day he went out there to make sure it kept looking great.

And even if he left it just for a few days, it would begin to not look as good

and the weeds would very quickly begin to overtake the beautiful fields. It was amazing

how fast it could return to disorder.

Unless my grandfather went out there every day like he did during the summers

when things were growing, it could go from order to disorder very quickly.

And this concept of things going from order to disorder probably makes sense in our own lives.

We can, for example, spend the day cleaning our house, making it look just perfect, and within a few hours, or at least a few days, it can go back to disorder.

We could spend a few hours washing our cars, getting it wax, and it can just look beautiful.

But again, within a few days of driving, it goes back to being dirty, dusty, and needing to be washed again.

Or think of our finances. We may be living in a very nice place, things are going well,

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