Here we are, the last day of June. I blogged all of April and now all of June. Overall, it’s been a very satisfying experience. What’s next for me? Well, I have…
Month: June 2020
Don’t Underestimate the Power of a Good Hobby
Recently, I was running with my buddy Dave–for the first time in three months, because of the Quarantine–and we were talking about our hobbies. He told me he recently started building and…
Happiness is a Present-Moment Thing
If there is one piece of wisdom I have learned from all my thinking, living, reading, and learning over the many years since my happiness obsession began (not the blog, but the…
A Mind Can Change!
Earlier last year I wrote a blog post about how tracking one’s numbers can be a double-edged sword. Using the personal example of grades during my academic career and earning money as…
Sensitive Expressive Me
I’ve been enjoying doing this blog this month, by and large. It seems that I’m getting even more relaxed about expressing myself. That was definitely the purpose of doing the blog in…
If Only We Were Robots (and Other Random Thoughts)
I decided to take some thoughts (mostly about investing, but not only) I wrote down recently and put them both down together here, instead of expanding each one into its own post:…
Counterfactual Thinking, that Sneaky Mechanism of the Mind
Investing is based the hope that assets you buy (whatever they may be) will provide (much) more value in the long run than the amount paid to buy them. This is a…
The Ghost of Elvis
Every day I show up to the page and see what it has for me. I say this literally, and I say this figuratively. The “page” might be this keyboard, it might…
The Benefits of Real Life Interaction
Today I went in for Jury Duty. I got myself all ready for it: I ran yesterday so I didn’t have to run today. I got up bright and early. I made…
Q&A with the Chief Blogging Officer of MyHappinessObsession.com
Okay, today I decided to answer some questions from an imaginary interviewer asking me about my blog. This interviewer doesn’t know a lot about me personally, but is generally curious about my…