You're going to be. Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff.

A few weeks ago I was on vacation with my family in Orlando, Florida. We are having a very nice time.

But about 3 o'clock in the morning, I woke up with a start.

What happened was, over the past, probably three or four years, my accountant has been encouraging

me to incorporate my business. There's a lot of steps involved in it, so I hadn't

done it yet, but I decided this year, 2012, to incorporate, and there really are a lot of steps to incorporating.

Prior to going on vacation, I had got part of it done, but there is still a lot of steps

left to do.

Now what happened at 3 o'clock in the morning in Orlando, Florida a few weeks ago, my mind

decided to create a story. And in a brief instance why I was dreaming, I saw everything that I needed to do and everything

that could go wrong, and my mind just created this fabulous story of woe and trepidation. when I woke up I realized almost immediately what my mind

had done and it was very interesting to me because up to that point I had just been plugging away on the different

aspects of incorporating my business. There are, as I said many of them, but I was just working

away on them. But what my mind did was create this story,

and it was very, very fascinating because it caused me, even though it was a brief, probably a minute or two, great stress and woke me

wide awake, but it was what my mind created.

I really haven't been struggling with worrying about the incorporation up to that point and I'm still plugging away at it

Not worrying about it. Just plugging away at it one instance at a time

But what my mind did was create this incredible story of

anxiety and fear. And what I realized was that this is how many people live. They create stories out of things that are happening,

but what's causing us to stress and anxiety and worry isn't so much what we're dealing with but what our minds

are creating.

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