By and large, you could say that I have spent the last twenty years doing all I can to cultivate inner peace. It’s a big part of what my happiness obsession is really about: living in such a way that I feel good each day (which I aim to write about here). Obviously, feeling good each day will look different for each person. Yet for me, the idea of inner peace seems to closely harmonize with it. For me, inner peace is about feeling calm. It’s about feeling at harmony…
Month: November 2020
Magnificence Writ Large Across the Sky
This morning I was working out in the backyard (something I have been doing over the past few months on non-running days), when I noticed high above me a long, thin streak of cloud-like air across the sky. It was, I’m assuming, the result of a jet flying overhead. I hadn’t seen the jet, or perhaps it passed before I got outside, but the streak left irrefutable evidence, to me, of such an aircraft’s passing by. They say where there’s smoke, there’s fire. So where there’s a long, thin streak…
The North Star of Happiness Beckons
Earlier this year I wrote about my intention not to do things that suck :). My “No More Suckiness” Philosophy resulted from life experiences that really sucked. After all the confusion, lack of clarity, and unhappiness created by not checking in with how things felt for me, the “No More Suckiness” commitment is a comical way of describing a true passion of mine: to be in alignment in all that I do and am! In fact, one reason I am such an avid writer (both on this blog and in…
Our Perfect Little Thanksgiving at Home
Since being married, my wife and I have mostly gone to other family members’ houses for Thanksgivings and Christmases. In fact, I’ve always associated the Holidays with big family dinners. The two times we dined alone for the Holidays were last-minute changes where we had to stay home (here’s one of those times*). Though we enjoyed ourselves anyway, I remember having a nagging sense of missing out, or at least feeling a little guilty not being with the rest of the family. Then comes 2020, and all the norms of…
Rewards Card Update (Yes, I’m Giving Thanks!)
First off, Happy Thanksgiving! Today I’d like to write an update on our rewards credit card, which we got a few years ago. I was a bit cautious about it at the time. After all, prior to this, I had spent many years with high revolving balances on credit cards. I associated having a credit card with feeling stuck in credit card debt. Yes, this SUCKED 🙁 Happily, I changed things around, paid off the old cards, and experienced the empowerment of being credit card debt-free! When I was ready…
The Magical Savings Snowball
As I have written before, I am a big fan of compounding. It excites me to no end to think of the power of money that I have invested growing over time. I’m also very much inspired by stories like Warren Buffett’s, which Alice Schroeder captures so well in her Buffett biography “The Snowball.” In the book, the snowball is a simple image that encapsulates Buffett’s journey to incredible wealth. Buffett used his business acumen, personal gifts, and the power of compound interest (!) to attain a level of financial…
What Do I Think?
A couple of times in the past–such is this–I have examined some topics in my life that feel good just to look a bit closer at my attitude about them. I thought I would do that again tonight 🙂 Here’s more look “under the hood,” vibrationally speaking: Covid: Okay, that was unexpected. I thought it might be something “fun” like food or movies, as I wrote about here. But here goes… My thoughts on the Pandemic are that it is an amazing opportunity for growth, for choosing how we look…
Eventually Water Always Wins Out
This worked last week, so I’m gonna try it again. Here’s a quote from “The Vortex,” by Esther and Jerry Hicks: A belief is only a thought that you keep thinking–it is only the beliefs that you hold that keep you from the things that you want. The Vortex, p221 Discuss: I have heard Abraham say this many, many times. I love the idea of changing my beliefs to allow things I want. I admit, sometimes I still have a “belief” that it can be difficult to change beliefs :(.…
Carving Out My Corner of the World
One thing I love about this blog is that it is my turf. I get to set the rules, I get to choose the subjects, I get to go on about whatever I want to go on about. It’s inherently satisfying, because, to put it perhaps inelegantly, it’s all about me. 🙂 I’m not sure if that makes it a great read for others! Yet this has always been a personal project, a self-serving vehicle for my own self-expression through writing. It’s never had to answer to any other motivation…
Finding My Groove in an Early-Morning Dream World
Saturday has become my usual day for doing longer runs. Today was no different: I got up at 6:30am to run 10 1/2 miles. It was cold and quiet on the street. As I began, I wasn’t in the best of mental spaces: my head was distracted by concerned thoughts and general malaise, some run-of-the-mill head trash taking me out of the moment. I looked forward to finding my groove, but my head was complaining, “Man, I don’t really want to run, this is hard!” My legs felt heavy, my…