To clarify my own semantic definitions of Career vs. J.O.B. (Just Over Broke), since it has come up on more than one occasion recently:

I see a Career as a Calling that helps one enact their personal Values while making money doing it. A J.O.B. is something that people do to pay the bills, often resentfully so, precisely because they act against ( Read more... )

A few observations have recently come to my Attention, thanks in large part to my Operation 4 Health. I wouldn't have believed these things if people told me (I'm sure they have), but until I actually Experienced them for myself.

1. Getting enough sleep at night makes the next day infinitely better ( Read more... )

Here are some great Quotes from the article Angry/Negative People can be Bad for your Brain* (which isn't as long as it looks... that page is mostly comments ( Read more... )

Entities (e.g., people, news organizations) whom bitch, whine, snivel, and complain about problems in Life--particularly without offerring viable Solutions to those problems--can kiss my white fuzzy ass. They seem to "think" that they are somehow being "smart" or "clever" or "insightful" at finding "things wrong in the World", but I was much ( Read more... )

"When one is in an intense state of Hatred, even a very close friend appears somehow annoying. If one harbors hateful thoughts, it ruins one's Health. Even if one has wonderful possessions, in the moment of Anger one feels like throwing them or breaking them. So there is no guarantee that wealth alone can give one the Joy or FulFillment that one ( Read more... )

This has occurred to me before, but I wanted to Earth it before it slipped from my Awareness again ( Read more... )

"Feelings of Anger, Bitterness, and Hate are negative. If I kept those inside me they would spoil my Body and Health. They are of no use ( Read more... )

"The fact that there is always a positive side to Life is the one thing that gives me a lot of Happyness. This world is not perfect. There are problems. But things like Happyness and unHappyness are relative. REALizing this gives you hope."
02.25.06

Rather than "REALizing this gives you hope", I'd rather say that "REALizing this is emPowering ( Read more... )

"I believe that the very purpose of our Life is to seek Happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in Life. So, I think, the very motion of our Life is toward Happiness."
03.14.06

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own Actions."
01.01.06

Indeed. I've discussed how many people--my selves included not too many years ago--for some reason Expect that Happiness is something that the universe "owes them", or "something that should 'just happen'", etc. I.e., most people do not take Responsibility for ( Read more... )