Does Your Life Feel Dull?
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Do you sometimes feel that life is against you? People around you appear preoccupied and indifferent to you. There are constant hassles and upsets. Whatever enthusiasm you once had has disappeared and everything feels gray. You have little energy [...]
Why you need more celebration in your life
Setting up your own special days to celebrate key life events can give you more joy and contentment
Americans have many special days in the year which they celebrate. There are national holidays and also events like Mother’s Day or Valentine’s Day.
As an individual you can celebrate special days of your own. There will be [...]
Is it really bad (or good) for you?
Chocolate used to be an absolute “no-no;” now it’s a health food. So what really is the truth about what we eat? Maybe you should slow down and think about that.
Cocoa beans, the source of chocolate (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
I���ve just been reading the latest edition of the AARP Bulletin. There’s a page in [...]
Are you settling for less than you ought?
While it’s unrealistic to expect everyone to be able to work at a job that makes their heart sing, that shouldn’t mean that everyone needs to settle for drudgery and pain in the workplace.
John Place recently listed seven dumb reasons why smart people settle for terrible jobs. Here they are, with my own thoughts and [...]
Make today outstanding
Many people in the USA are still on holiday, as part of the Thanksgiving long weekend. Yesterday, in traditional observance, is given over to an orgy of eating and drinking. Today, equally traditionally, comes the dash to the malls to shop until you drop. But this year, I want to suggest that you break with [...]
Why happiness often means having less
Scarcity is an essential ingredient in a life worth living
It may seem perverse to suggest that people cannot generally be happy without scarcity. After all, millions of people in this world suffer from scarcity of life’s basic necessities, and there is no way that that makes them happy.
The human mind is sometimes itself perverse. Give [...]
To prosper, slow down and keep your attention sharp
Life is full of opportunities to learn
Tiny babies do it the moment they’re born. We all enter this world capable of amazing amounts of learning. What’s more, we need to learn. If we don’t, our brains shrivel. It’s “use it or lose it” with a vengeance.
Try these ideas:
Broaden your horizons. Take an interest in [...]
The unending pain of circular reasoning
Why trying to make yourself feel contented by acquiring more is doomed from the start
All too many of us succumb to the kind of thinking that goes like this: “If I get a [new job, new house, new car, new partner—fill in the blank], I’ll be happy.” Of course a whole industry, called advertising, exists [...]
Is too much TV a cause of unhappiness?
People have been decrying television almost since it was invented. So far, the effect seems to be just about nil. People watch TV more than ever. But if you want to live a slower, less frenetic life, there’s no doubt that television offers some distinct dangers.
The first drawback to happiness: simple over-stimulation.
The trouble with [...]
Slowing down — for the environment’s sake
Our lust for speed is ruining our world
(Today is Blog Action Day when thousands of bloggers all over the world are writing on a single theme: our environment.)
Speed sometimes seems to be everything these days. We want to go everywhere faster, get everything faster, use it all faster, and throw it away faster.
Despite all the [...]
