2768: (Bad Advice) "Do What Makes You Happy" (MM)
The Cabral Concept
Dr. Stephen Cabral
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
We all want to have fun and enjoy our lives...
But sometimes we might be doing things that seem fun in the short term but can be detrimental to our long-term goals.
So today, I want to go over the importance of focusing more on outcomes and not just moments, and I want to help you understand why it is important to create long-term goals and enjoy the journey along the way.
Join me in today's #CabralConcept 2768, where I share with you why I think doing what makes you happy is bad advice and what you should do instead. Enjoy the show and let me know what you think!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cabral concept where board certified doctor of naturopathy Dr. Steven Cabral shares with you |
| 0:06.7 | Exactly how you when reverse aging take back your health and live a life full of energy and passion with new 20-minute |
| 0:13.6 | Episodes every single day to keep you healthy and engaged now. Here's your host Dr. Steven Cabral |
| 0:21.8 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to the show. So glad to have you with me here today |
| 0:26.8 | Excited to get into our mindset and motivation Monday best way to start your week today |
| 0:31.9 | We're going to be talking about I believe an old adage that I don't necessarily think will lead to your greatest amount of happiness in life |
| 0:40.1 | And that is the phrase do what makes you happy now |
| 0:44.1 | I do want to get to the point right away and say yes, you should absolutely do the things that make you happy in life |
| 0:50.9 | There's no doubt about that and and I think the where we get lost is that a lot of times |
| 0:56.4 | Especially in our 20s and maybe even early 30s |
| 0:59.3 | We get caught up with all the things that are fun to do right and then this can happen later in life as well |
| 1:04.3 | There's no doubt about it the problem is this though if we're always doing the things that bring us pleasure in our life |
| 1:10.8 | We may be foregoing that of what we know we need to do in order to be successful in the areas that maybe mean the most to us later in life such as |
| 1:20.2 | Family relationships |
| 1:22.5 | career spirituality health |
| 1:25.8 | Body transformation whatever it may be and the reason why I mentioned that now is that |
| 1:30.2 | We can do a lot of detriment to ourselves in our 20s and 30s and all the way through let's say 50s 60s |
| 1:36.4 | By foregoing what we know we should do in order to set ourselves up for success |
| 1:41.4 | So let me just give you a health-based example for me if someone has been |
| 1:46.2 | Let's say smoking cigarettes not getting enough sleep not eating as well as they should drinking alcohol most nights of the week |
| 1:52.8 | We know that they're doing things that they really enjoy right they're doing things that they may love |
| 1:57.7 | There's a lot of people who love smoking they do a lot of people love drinking alcohol a lot of people who love eating out all the time |
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