#402 How To Be Happy With What You Have
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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How To Be Happy With What You Have
The wealthiest people aren't the ones who have the most but are most satisfied with what they have. Happiness is available to all of us, especially when we learn to accept and even love what life gives "now."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. |
| 0:07.0 | Who's the wealthiest person you know? Perhaps you think it's Elon Musk, or Bill Gates, or Warren Buffett. |
| 0:17.1 | Who is the wealthiest? |
| 0:19.4 | I'm actually going to argue that it could be you. You may be saying Dr. Puff, how could it be me? I don't have any |
| 0:26.6 | company where someday I'm going to make a lot of money. That's impossible. I'm a teacher. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm a janitor. I work at a fast food restaurant. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm definitely not the wealthiest person out there. |
| 0:37.8 | So let me explain what I mean by you could actually be the wealthiest person you know. |
| 0:44.4 | Because a wealthiest person isn't the one who has the most, |
| 0:48.4 | but the one who is most satisfied with what he or she has. I remember once reading somewhere about Rockefeller when he was the wealthiest man in the world, and someone asked him, Mr Rockefeller, how much would be enough money for you? |
| 1:05.0 | And he answered, |
| 1:07.0 | one more dollar than I'll ever have. |
| 1:10.0 | So if satisfaction is a measure of wealth, then Rockefeller was a poor man. |
| 1:17.0 | Why is satisfaction with what we have far more important than how much money we have in the bank. |
| 1:25.0 | When you were younger, do you remember when your birthday came wishing for that really cool |
| 1:30.9 | present? |
| 1:32.3 | Perhaps it was a new bicycle. Perhaps it was a |
| 1:35.1 | telescope. Perhaps it was a video game. But do you remember how excited you were? And |
| 1:41.0 | then when that present came came you just savored that new toy and played with it for hours, perhaps days, perhaps weeks. |
| 1:51.0 | But then at some point that feeling faded and you wanted something else. |
| 1:56.5 | You couldn't wait till the next big event came like Christmas or your next birthday |
| 2:00.8 | and you started dreaming about that. Now we may laugh at that and |
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