Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Goals. We love to achieve things and make

a difference in our lives and the lives around us. It's wonderful and it's really what's changed our world. With goals, we achieve

things, we get things done, we get degrees, we buy homes, we get in relationships, there's so many wonderful things that come with goals.

But there is a problem with goals too.

And that's what I want to explore in this podcast and help us understand how having goals is great, but we need to enjoy the journey of getting

to our goals because we don't always get there.

Imagine this. Let's pretend that we have a ship in Los Angeles Port and we want to take that

ship all the way to Borbore Tahiti because we've heard wonderful things about it

we've seen pictures and we'd love to go there to sleep on one of those overwater

bungalows and just have an exquisite time. So we head out from Los Angeles, we

aim directly at Boer Boer. We look at the map, we figure out where do we get there and we aim for it.

But what we're going to discover is along the way there's going to be storms, there's going to be currents,

there's going to be winds, there's all kinds of things.

So what we have to do is in order to get there, we have to adjust all along the way.

And then, let's say three-fourths of the way there, we're almost there, and let's say for some

reason our ship sinks, and we don't get there, and we have to go back to Los Angeles.

And I think metaphorically, when most people have goals, like Borre-Bor Boribor goals, let's say we want to be a medical doctor.

Let's say we want to save up a million dollars. Let's say we want to get a promotion out of work.

What we do is, when we're striving towards these goals is we work really

hard. We do make the course corrections, but sometimes we don't reach it. We don't get into

medical school. We don't meet that million dollar savings plan. We don't get into medical school. We don't meet that million dollar savings plan. We don't find that promotion.

So during that process, we sacrifice a lot. and often our life is on hold as we're reaching

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