Accepting normal or average is choosing to be a loser and choosing to fail. Any news source, talking head or alleged expert proclaiming a new normal should be ignored—immediately. Turn off the t.v., exit the site or turn and run. Accepting normal is a far more deadly pandemic than any virus ever has been or …
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1. You’re reading this. That means you have life and at least an ability to read the written word and form thoughts. The best part is that thought is all you need to pursue happiness. 2. Everything good (or bad) in life starts with thought. As a matter of simple logic you now have all …
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First Course: Gratitude Express at least three things for which you are grateful paired with the song “What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-T6aaRV9HY. When things get tough, human nature often turns to a misery loves company response. The flip side is what works in creating happier lives. Rather than wallowing in fear or …
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Naysayers so often scoff at the idea that one may pursue happiness and then reach the light at the end of the tunnel. Many don’t believe that happiness may be pursued at all. They reside in an endless tunnel and their lack of vision is their existence. Seeing only the tunnel walls and the blindness …
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Steve Earle sung a great tune about “The Devil’s Right Hand.” A pistol as the subject of the song is misguided, but it is a great tune nonetheless. Objects or circumstances outside of us are neither the hand of evil nor the causes of what ails us. We are our own Devil’s right hand and …
The Waterboys made a record in the 80’s, my decade I might add, titled “The Whole of the Moon.” The key chorus line is “I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon.” Life is all about perspective and the approach we take to the same circumstances. Some see nothing, some see bits …
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“Are you going to believe me or your own eyes?” This famous quote most often attributed to the Marx Brothers in “Duck Soup” has been altered on several occasions over the years adding the word “lyin” because it makes the question even more poignant by suggesting the conclusion. The distinction between the evidence we see …
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A virus becomes the vaccine. Doses of uncertainty, hoarding, panic, reality and then ultimately reflection will be the steps of our current events. With any perceived crisis, the first response is often the Henny Penny cry. With time, thoughtful reflection will set in soon enough. The initial reactionary position will be forgotten like the common …
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Out of many, one. An instructive motto of America. On March 20, 2020, the UN released its annual World Happiness Report. According to an article by CNN, the report lists the “happiest” countries based on various criteria that “support well-being.” https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-happiest-country-wellness-2020/index.html. Those criteria are: income, freedom, trust, healthy life expectancy, social support and generosity. Interestingly, note …
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The unknown does not a crisis make. Thoughts create crises. Despite the belief of people who claim to be smarter than any one of us, people simply do not know everything. What follows then is that people do not have all of the answers to every perceived problem that arises. It is thinking that people …
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