Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. There's a lot of things in life that can keep us from being happy.

But in today's podcast, I want to talk about a very common one that I see so often

and many of the people that I've worked with over the years.

And here's what it is. In life, we have struggles.

Sometimes they're hard.

Sometimes they're really hard.

And we want answers to these struggles.

And when we look for the answer, we see it,

but we really don't see it, but we really don't see it because we're not ready to accept that answer

yet. And it's not that the answer isn't obvious, it can be obvious to everyone all around us, but we're just not ready to accept

that answer yet. It can even be obvious to ourselves, but we still reject it. We want a different answer. We don't want that

answer. So let me use some examples to illustrate what I'm talking about. Many years ago, I was working with a lady who was really struggling with being far too busy

and her busyness was causing her a lot of pain and suffering, physical suffering, suffering in

relationships with the people that she loved, and just emotional suffering in her life. You may relate to this. Sometimes in life we just get too busy and

there isn't time to slow down and smell the roses and enjoy the journey of life.

And instead, we suffer.

In today's modern age, it's a very common experience

that many of us struggle with.

Well, one day I was meeting with her and we were talking about slowing down,

and she was doing the typical, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't like that answer.

I got to do these things. I need to keep busy.

These things are important. Give me a different

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