Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. We have a lot of

possessions in life. We may have cars. We may have a home. We may have cars, have a home, we may have clothing, we may have jewelry, we have things that we value, and sometimes as we go through life, we lose them. We get fired. There's a recession. Things change and because of

the financial changes we lose the things that we possess. But the good news is often we can get them back. A parent dies and we get an inheritance.

We get a new job and we get paid more.

Changes happen in life and because of these changes, we gain money, we gain possessions,

we lose money, we lose possessions.

But there is one thing that we own that no matter what when we lose it we can never get it back.

And you know what that is?

Time. In many ways, time is our most precious commodity, because

once we lose it, we can never get it back. Once that time is spent, it is gone forever.

So the question we want to ask ourselves is,

are we using our time well?

Or is it a precious commodity that we're squandering all day long?

First off, what do I mean by using time well? Well we have to start with one thing and that's what our goal or

our purpose of life is. And for most of us our goals, our aims in life change as we age.

When we're younger, it may be very important that we're liked by our friends and perhaps even

popular because then our lives are going to go well.

When we get a little bit older, it may be important for us to get into a certain university

or get that really good job so that we have a lot of money or have the potential to make a lot of money

and then all will be well. And then as we get a little bit older, we may want to find someone to journey

through life with, to have a family with. And when we find that soulmate,

wow things are going to go great. And as we get a little bit older, it can keep shifting from

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