You are smarter than the average bear, so you know that trying to buy your happiness with a quick hit of dopamine buying anything is fleeting.  There is a chemical hit when you buy anything.  Your brain does get happy.  But that happiness is ever so fleeting.

Our goal should never be to look outside ourselves for happiness.  But, that's what's so good about today's episode.  It talks about how experiences will always have you happier than buying things.  To my point, that happiness comes from within.  Come listen.

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There is no PC way of saying this.  If you don't continually grow each day, learn something new, then your life will never grow past where it is today.  Each of us grew up with schooling being mandated.  We absolutely had to go.  Not only did we have to go but we had to learn stuff we didn't even care about.  Then for some of us, came college.  Then at least you got to choose what you wanted to learn but you were so overwhelmed with the impending real world and collegiate drama that even that experience may have left you a little gun shy.

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Whether you are a new family starting out or perhaps you have lost your job, sometimes you need to move in with family or friends until you get back on your feet.  However, sometimes your way of living clashes with that of your host. 

Your life can be turned upside down if you are, like most zen commuters, calm, organized and intentional, and your hosts are, shall we say, organizationally carefree.

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