#426 Planned Spontaneity (Finding Our Happiness Flow)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Planned Spontaneity (Finding Our Happiness Flow)
One of the most significant challenges in life is finding a balance between planning for the future and living in the moment. Yet, when we can do both, then our lives flow. In this podcast, we explore how to live with planned spontaneity.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. I don't know if you've ever |
| 0:08.9 | seen it but you probably heard of it the movie Dead Poets Society with Robin Williams. |
| 0:14.7 | It's truly a beautiful movie. |
| 0:17.2 | It's a story about young men at a private school who really want to get ahead in life. They come from privilege and they want to stay in the upper bracket of privilege and succeed in life. |
| 0:28.0 | But they meet a teacher, Robin Williams, who really challenges their assumptions and says, |
| 0:35.0 | what about living today? |
| 0:37.0 | Karp A diem, which is the Latin phrase, which means, |
| 0:41.0 | Seize the day. And you really begin to see both the pros and the |
| 0:47.2 | cons of planning for the future and making all our efforts towards that, which keeps us from living in the now, but at the same |
| 0:56.8 | time when we live 100% in the now, we don't plan for the future, and there can be consequences when we go too far in our spontaneity, like |
| 1:06.2 | junk and revelry, getting someone pregnant or dropping out of school or even in the movie |
| 1:11.8 | Suicide. So today I want to explore how we can find a balance between |
| 1:17.0 | living a spontaneous life and yet still planning for the future, what I like to call plan spontaneity. |
| 1:25.0 | Let's start off by talking about extremes because there definitely are extremes. |
| 1:31.0 | I had a relative of mine who worked really hard and towards the end of his |
| 1:35.4 | working career he had to work exceptionally hard because his company laid off so |
| 1:39.6 | many people he got moved up but with being moved up and making more money he had more responsibility. |
| 1:46.0 | He actually finally ended up buying a motorhome and he was all excited to travel with his wife and see the world |
| 1:52.0 | because he only had one year left to work and then it would be over. |
| 1:56.0 | He would reach his goal that he planned and worked for his entire life. |
| 1:59.7 | He was a very hardworking man. |
| 2:02.4 | But unfortunately he got cancer and spent the next two years |
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