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

One of the most beautiful and enlightening lessons that I've learned in life is about simplifying life.

Learning to keep my activities to a manageable pace so that I can still enjoy life and

enjoy the journey of life as I accomplish goals and do activities.

I remember when I began to learn this lesson about simplifying my life was when I was at

university.

I loved to learn and I loved to learn about a variety of topics.

So when I would sign up for my class schedule, I would often sign up for an extra class

one more than I should have taken, or audit classes classes or just take on something extra to learn

about our world.

But what would happen is a few weeks into the semester, I would get overwhelmed and say,

whoa, this is just too much.

So I would immediately stop that extra activity

and get back to a manageable schedule.

This was something very healthy for me that I learned, just to stop and make sure that my life was manageable.

And throughout my life, this lesson keeps coming back.

It's an important lesson to learn to simplify.

When I had my kids and they were younger, even though I really like working with the media

and being involved in teaching people around the world, I stopped

that, all that activity for several years as I was involved with my wife raising our young

children.

And more recently I was producing a show called The holistic success show,

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