Quick Cut: S2E259 It's a Good Life
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
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It isn’t always easy to see the good in life, but it is always there. In this episode, Brian explains why challenging and difficult experiences can turn out for the best and shares purposeful and practical ways to live the good life you were created for.
YOU WILL LEARN:
•Why life doesn't always feel good.
•How to put more of the good back in your life.
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INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“We were created for a good life. We were designed for it. We were built for it.” – Brian Buffini
“Inside the infinite love of God there’s a place for suffering.” – Fr. Thomas Keating
“God works all things together for good.” – Romans 8:28
“When you’re focusing on what’s not right, it’s all you get; that’s all you are.” – Brian Buffini
“Every book of success has chapters of failure.” – Brian Buffini
“Better days are ahead. There is hope for the future.” – Brian Buffini
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company. |
| 0:10.4 | Here's a short classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes. |
| 0:16.9 | The top of the morning to you and welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini. |
| 0:22.2 | Excited to be with you today. Life was meant to be good. I think my main job is reminding people of that, |
| 0:29.5 | giving people perspective, a bit of encouragement, a bit of hope, and maybe a few how-toes to put more of the good back into people's lives. I believe life is meant to be good, |
| 0:41.2 | designed to be good, created to be good. Well, the first thing I want to talk about is why life |
| 0:47.1 | doesn't always feel so good. So if it's meant to be good, why doesn't it feel so good? |
| 0:52.2 | And then I have a question for you to try to help you put more of the |
| 0:55.6 | good back in your own good life. So let's talk about it. And I'm going to talk about why life |
| 1:01.1 | doesn't feel so good. So let's do a little analysis. Here are just some stats on where we're at |
| 1:06.2 | in our culture today, specifically in America. There was 100,000 drug overdoses in the US last year, |
| 1:13.2 | which is up 28%. |
| 1:14.8 | 40 million people in the States take antidepressants. |
| 1:18.9 | That number was 13 million 20 years ago. |
| 1:22.3 | So think about it. |
| 1:23.2 | Like our culture constantly will say it's more evolved and more sophisticated. |
| 1:28.5 | We have more psychologists and therapists. |
| 1:30.9 | We have more answers for everything. |
| 1:32.7 | There's self-help books for everything under the sun. |
| 1:35.4 | And any thought, a Paris never seems to have had has been written about it. |
| 1:39.1 | So why aren't we doing so good? |
| 1:41.7 | But I want to walk you through the word good. |
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