Many years ago I participated in a workshop called “The Millionaire Mind Intensive,” a weekend event created by a company called Peak Potentials. At the time, I was only a few years…
A Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Happiness
A few months back I joined a Facebook group for highly sensitive people because I had never sought out other “HSPs” before and was curious what I’d find. What I found has…
Yes, You Can Ignore Them
I have written about comparing myself with other swimmers while swimming. It doesn’t just come up in the pool. It’s old story where my worth seemed to be tied to the relative…
Practicing Deliberate Inconsistency
So yesterday I did not post. This really doesn’t matter all that much, but I tend to be black-or-white about things like this. Since I turned the blogging spigot back on, my…
Tonight’s Appreciations
As I did in my last stint of blogging–such as here–I am going to write out some things I’m appreciating in my life. Tonight’s Appreciations:
Change is Hard
For many years now, I have had a routine of going to a cafe down the street multiple times per week for several hours of writing. During these cafe sessions, I typically…
Two Sides of the “Writing-in-Solitude” Coin
I started this blog nearly 10 years ago. This was my first post, on April 3, 2016. All in all, MyHappinessObsession has been a personal sandbox where I get to write about…
“Blogging Time” (Rhyming verse)
Tonight I elected to write some “silly lines” in rhyme because I didn’t have ideas for a more thoughtful prose blog post 🤣 On a serious side, this continues the tradition of…
How to Neutralize Negative Thoughts
I was surprised one day at the grocery store last year to discover a little book called “Conquer Your Negative Thoughts,” by Daniel Amen. This book concisely shares powerful exercises and suggestions…
Slaying the Dragon of Perfectionism
Steven Pressfield in the “War of Art” talks about overcoming resistance. It’s a daily battle, he describes, for a creative person to sit down and get to work. Meanwhile, in “The Artist…