"Are you happy and you know it?"

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I shared a story with you recently, "When will you be happy?," about how so many of us defer our happiness until some future event happens, like you buy a new home or your husband gets his act together.

A friend who listens to life through our website at www.listentolife.org emailed me to say that she is learning that lesson again; how to be happy in the every day. It seems that she and her family have a new puppy. If you’ve ever had a new puppy, you know that house-breaking, or as she put it—"potty training," takes some consistent effort and some dogs learn more quickly than others.

She caught herself saying, "Oh, I can’t wait until he grows up and is potty trained." And then she realized that she was missing a lot of happiness. Like giving him a heartworm pill in peanut butter and him ferreting out the pill and leaving it in his dish just so he could have more peanut butter.

Discover happiness today. Look for it as you go through the everyday parts of your life. Listen for it as you make a life, not just a living.

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