#318 Happiness - Knowing When to Accept or Change Life
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We make decisions all the time. How to we decide when to accept what is happening or keep working towards changing the situation in our life. We explore a 5 steps process to find if we should accept or change life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. During the course of our |
| 0:08.4 | lives we make a lot of decisions. Who do we marry? Where do we go to school? Where do we live? When do we switch |
| 0:17.0 | jobs? When do we retire? What do we decide for dinner tonight? What do we do in regards to fixing up our house? Do we rent or do we buy? Do we save |
| 0:27.6 | for retirement or do we travel? We make a lot of decisions in our lives. |
| 0:33.2 | And sometimes it's hard to know when to change and when to keep things going the way they have |
| 0:39.5 | been. |
| 0:40.9 | If you've been listening to my podcasts before, you'll know that I end every |
| 0:45.2 | podcast with the same phrase. |
| 0:47.8 | Accept what is, love what is. But how do we decide when to accept and how do we decide that we need to |
| 0:55.4 | keep going or make a change or just keep trying to make things different versus |
| 1:01.2 | accepting that this is just the way it is. And now we need to |
| 1:05.2 | accept that and even work towards loving that. Let me use three examples to |
| 1:11.4 | illustrate. Let's say we're dating someone. We love them and we think they're a pretty |
| 1:16.5 | good match for us but we're just not sure if we're ready to get married to them |
| 1:21.2 | and spend our lives with them. |
| 1:23.0 | Because sometimes we have conflicts with them, |
| 1:25.0 | and we're not sure if they're enough to keep going |
| 1:28.0 | or do we want to end the relationship. |
| 1:30.0 | Should we get into therapy and try to work through some of these issues? |
| 1:35.0 | Or do we just accept this is the way the other person is, |
| 1:38.0 | and whether we can live with that or not? |
| 1:40.0 | Or perhaps we're approaching retirement, and we have to decide if it's time to retire or not. |
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