#520 Dancing with Mortality: The Urgency of Happiness
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Dancing with Mortality: The Urgency of Happiness
Ever feel like you're putting off truly living until "someday"? Like there's always tomorrow to chase your dreams and nurture your soul? Well, what if tomorrow wasn't guaranteed? On today's episode, we're diving deep into the urgency of happiness and exploring how embracing our finite time here can ignite a life filled with passion, purpose, and joy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. This podcast is about happiness. I'm sure you know that. It's probably why you're listening to it. So you probably can imagine as a teacher of how to be happy, I've talked to a lot of people throughout my career |
| 0:21.4 | throughout my life on helping them to improve their lives so they can be happy right here, |
| 0:26.9 | right now. But you know the most consistent theme I hear when I give people steps that they agree |
| 0:33.3 | with that would make their lives better is someday I'll do that. It's not that they don't want to be |
| 0:40.1 | happy, it's just they have other things to do first, like raise their children. And when my children |
| 0:45.4 | are raised, my husband and I will travel the world and will be happy. Or it's about saving up |
| 0:51.3 | enough money and getting to the point where they're feeling financially free, |
| 0:55.4 | and then they'll go out and explore and do the things that they're passionate about. |
| 1:00.0 | Or once they finish school, then life will begin and happiness will be there. |
| 1:05.2 | Or when they find their soulmate, then, of course, there'll be happiness and joy in their lives, but not till |
| 1:11.7 | then. Sadly, I would argue that the majority of people defer both happiness and fulfillment |
| 1:18.4 | to an indefinite future. But then life unfolds, and sometimes the people that we love |
| 1:25.2 | aren't there anymore. Sometimes the experiences that we were |
| 1:29.9 | hoping for don't come. And then sometimes, very tragically, our own lives end much sooner than we |
| 1:39.5 | expected. There's been so many people over the years that I've met whose lives have been cut short. |
| 1:46.9 | But the beautiful part is that they're not all tragic. What I mean by that is, is when they get the |
| 1:53.6 | diagnosis of, say, six months left, that they actually start living. One man who was in his |
| 1:59.7 | 40s shared with me how when he got his diagnosis |
| 2:03.4 | of cancer and was only given a few months to live, it was during those last few months that he really |
| 2:10.3 | started living. If you've never experienced this with someone that you care about, you may want to |
| 2:16.0 | watch the movie The Bucket List. It's played by |
| 2:18.6 | Morgan Friedman and Jack Nicholson. It's where these two men meet in a hospital room. Faced |
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