#254 Happiness - Seeing the World with New Eyes
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As we travel through life, one of the key happiness skills is to see things with new eyes, and not to just see new landscapes. Then we will find beauty wherever we go. 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. Robert Puff. I don't know about you, but one of my favorite things to do is to explore our beautiful world that we live in. |
| 0:19.0 | I like to go to places, see them, get to know the people, explore the art, the architecture, the history. |
| 0:26.3 | There's just so much in life to explore, and I really enjoy exploring it and I've made a lot of time |
| 0:32.3 | and effort for it throughout my life. |
| 0:35.0 | But in truth, this could change. I could have a health problem. My finances could change. |
| 0:41.0 | Many things could happen that could preclude me from continuing my exploration |
| 0:45.8 | of the world. And you know what? That would be okay. I remember once years ago I had a trip completely planned a summer trip |
| 0:56.4 | Everything was pretty much paid for but there was a crisis with one of my family members and we weren't able to go that summer and it was okay. |
| 1:07.5 | And today I want to talk about this secret thing that we can do to make life go okay even when we can't do to make life go okay even when we can't get out there and explore the world. |
| 1:17.0 | And it really boils down to this. |
| 1:20.0 | We don't want to necessarily see new places. We want to have new eyes when we see things. |
| 1:27.0 | And that really is one of the secret aspects of happiness. |
| 1:32.0 | When we can continue to see things with new eyes, what will happen is, no matter |
| 1:39.0 | what's happening, we're going to be in a good place because in a sense we're going to be exploring our world |
| 1:45.4 | Whether we're traveling through Asia or homebound in our bed because we're ill |
| 1:50.7 | It doesn't really matter because if we can keep our eyes fresh, new, then there's always things that we can see |
| 2:00.1 | that we haven't seen before. I remember a friend of mine who described one time she was walking to work |
| 2:07.0 | and she walked this way every day for 10 years |
| 2:10.0 | and she noticed a new shop had opened and she went in there to ask how long they've been open and they said seven years. |
| 2:18.0 | So she'd walked by it for seven years and hadn't noticed it. |
| 2:22.0 | We all have probably had that experience where something |
| 2:25.0 | is new in our lives and we just don't see it. Or we see things, but we really stop seeing them. |
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