Category: Happiness Project
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My Outlook for 2014: Fiction Farming and Beyond
I live with this voice inside my head that thinks that all these things I do – self-improvement, goal-setting, trying to have a positive outlook is a bunch of feces of the male bovine. It screams, “Poser!” “Fake!” “Failure!” It’s my internal editor, if you will. It is that voice, cultivated by social ridicule, parental…
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My 2013 Happiness Project: Year-End Round Up
Wow. Seriously, that’s all I can say about 2013 and my goals to seek happiness in my flawed human way. All in all, I think it was a success, because I learned very much about myself, my abilities, my desires, my failures, and yes, what makes me happy. I also learned more about my family…
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Happiness Project: Winter Solstice Reflection
Happy Solstice my Happiness Seekers. The Axial Tilt of the earth and the winter darkness easily allow us to look inside and examine the good and bad and lessons learned of the past year. I’m taking a few quiet moments in the wee hours of the morning to do just that. My mind turns first,…
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Happiness Project: November was only near perfection; I’ll take it
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night November was trying. I’m noticing that Gretchen Rubin’s philosophy that the years are short, but the days are long is dead on. In my case the days and months are long.…
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Happiness Project: October is a happy orange; November is a speculative gray.
“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” ~ Dalai Lama I’m batting about 850 for this month and it feels good. I expanded my brain, researched…