Beware of destination addition:
The idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job, or even with the next partner.
Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else,
it will never be where you are.

It has been my experience that people who live their life blaming external influences, events, and circumstances for their ( Read more... )

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I saw a blurb on USA Today about a woman who was addicted to painkillers. She was now advocating against taking Vicodin unless it was absolutely necessary, because it is so easy to crave the high and fall into an unsuspecting trap. I don't doubt that's true. For her. But my body chemistry is very different. Vicodin only works on me if I have ( Read more... )

Money is a by-product of bigger, more meaningful goals such as passion, fun and wisdom.
~ Richard Branson

Bhutan is the only country to measure happiness. They have a Ministry of Happiness to measure the country's GNH (or Gross National Happiness) which "...measures quality of life or social progress in more holistic and psychological terms ( Read more... )

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I apply, or attempt to apply, the Nash Equilibrium to my everyday life, in every interaction. Its become a sort of philosophy for me. "Altruistic objectivism" if you will, as I don't subscribe wholly to any singular thread of philosophical debate - I don't have to - the best of many in an ever evolving comprehension of life far outweighs the ( Read more... )

Correspondent Andrea Canning: "Are you bi-polar?"
Charlie Sheen: "I'm bi-winning."

Having read (and understood) the Paul David Walker (CEO Coach) statement, "Your thoughts, beliefs, ideas and other cognitive forms are only an approximation of reality. Not reality itself. We have experiences that cause insight into reality, and then we form ( Read more... )

Jumping into a new situation feet first is the empirical antonym to quitting cold turkey - the creation of a pass or fail scenario, or to put it idiomatically, sink or swim - either figure it out along the way and succeed, or bow out. Learn by doing. A very good, and very effective educational approach as it greatly shortens the learning curve. ( Read more... )

Without wanting to come off sounding selfish, I'd like to live. Now I know a great many of you are looking forward to gazing upon the face of Christ, but I'd much prefer it if you did it alone, without taking me with you. I don't really care how you do it, just leave me out of it. I'm certain of your terrible desire to self-terminate because I ( Read more... )

Have you ever just watched the movement of ants? They're fascinating in their perceived lack of interaction with each other as they singularly move to complete their assigned task; yet taking into account the movement of others in relationship to their own to create seamless, efficient lines of communication without which has the potential to ( Read more... )