#253 Happiness - Foundations
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We all have a foundation that we started building as a young child. But is our foundation built from duck tape or cement? And what do we do if we want to change that foundation? To learn more about the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org. To learn more about Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Rubber Puff. I recently received a letter from one of our listeners and I wanted to read it today as a way to understand our path and who we are. |
| 0:22.0 | It's called Foundations. People are like Foundations. We start to begin to lay |
| 0:28.6 | our foundations in early childhood. We look around to those of us, primarily our parents, to find out how to |
| 0:36.6 | start the process. Our goal is to build a strong and beautiful home to live in and to feel saving. |
| 0:44.0 | Yet along the way we face small and big obstacles that create cracks and fine lines in our |
| 0:50.4 | foundation. We look to our parents and those around us for solutions to mend these cracks. |
| 0:57.0 | If we're lucky, we learn how to repair them properly, but sometimes we are given or shown solutions that aren't the proper fix. |
| 1:07.0 | Instead of using concrete to reinforce, we use duct tape. |
| 1:11.6 | We use duct tape because that's what our parents are using and we don't know any better. |
| 1:17.0 | As life continues, the dictate covers those cracks so that we believe we are repairing them and that they are fine. |
| 1:25.9 | It is not until something that is truly devastating that we realize how unsound our foundation |
| 1:32.0 | really is. These events are like the sledgehammer that seems to know exactly where those superficial cracks are and they split right open. |
| 1:41.0 | We frantically run to our duct tape to make repairs, but find that it is not |
| 1:47.0 | enough. We realize that the duct tape we have been using all those years, never really repaired the small damages. |
| 1:55.0 | And usually by that time we started to build our home on that duct tape foundation. |
| 2:01.0 | These homes were built with sticks because that's all the |
| 2:05.0 | foundation can carry. And with a house of sticks we hope to always have mild |
| 2:11.0 | temperate weather because a house of sticks can survive that kind of always have |
| 2:13.3 | mild temperate weather because a house of sticks can survive that kind of weather. |
| 2:15.5 | But if a storm hits, our house will surely crumble. |
| 2:20.5 | We see others in the homes they have built and notice not all the homes are made out of sticks. |
| 2:27.0 | These homes are grand and beautiful, complete with and they say it starts out with a good solid foundation. |
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