Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Rubber Puff. Wouldn't it be wonderful that when we were born each of us was given a blueprint of how to live

our lives well so that we would have purpose and meaning and a successful life so

that when we took our last breath we'd look back and say,

that was a good life.

Well, though that would be wonderful, unfortunately, that isn't the way our lives unfold.

Some of us are born into families where we're giving every opportunity possible, and perhaps when we find something that we're good at

our parents really find the best teachers for us and with all this training we become

very good at that one skill. But even with all this training and exposure,

our interests change, or we may get an injury or something causes us not to want to do it anymore.

We all know people who spent years, say, learning to pay an instrument like the piano,

and they reached a point where they said,'m done I'm not doing that anymore and they quit and they haven't played for years

And yet for many others of us, we're just surviving our childhood.

We're glad we made it through childhood alive and in maybe some sort of one piece.

So now that we've reached adulthood or at least approaching

adulthood, how do we find our purpose in our lives so that like I said at the

beginning when we rest our head at our last

breath in life whether it be 20 years or 100 years say, that was a good life.

Well, one of the key factors of finding satisfaction in our lives

is having purpose.

What is our purpose in life?

And it's not an easy question.

For one person, perhaps working with the poor,

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