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Day 39: “Sweet at Home (for strings)” [Original Music]

Posted on August 10, 2022

“Sweet at Home” is a piano piece I put on my previous album, “The Cherry Rainbow Piano Experience.” I always wondered what it would be like to hear it played by strings….

Day 38: The Drama-Free Game of Growing Share Ownership (Part 2)

Posted on August 9, 2022

Recently I wrote about how investing is really a game of growing share ownership. Whether that is owning stocks & bonds, or any other asset (such as real estate, individual businesses, intellectual…

Day 37: Allowing My Way to Enjoying “Masterclass”

Posted on August 8, 2022

I believe I am getting better at “allowing.” This is a term that Abraham-Hicks mentions a lot. They call it the “Art of Allowing.” My way of understanding this that instead of…

Day 36: My Short-But-Sweet “In the Heights” Adventure

Posted on August 7, 2022

A few nights ago I was about to close up for the night and relax, when my friend Lisa called. A few years ago we worked together on several musicals at a…

Day 35: Now You Know What I Care About!

Posted on August 6, 2022

The best way to know a person’s priorities is to see where they allocate their time. Personally, this is how I have been allocating my time (in no particular order): Piano Teaching…

Day 34: “Ragamuffins” (Original Music)

Posted on August 5, 2022

Last weekend I got the idea to write an honest-to-goodness ragtime piece modeled after Scott Joplin’s rags. I tried for as accurate an emulation as I could while still hopefully being original….

Day 33: Oops… I wrote it again

Posted on August 4, 2022

To date, MyHappinessObsession has six-hundred and seventy-seven published posts including today’s offering. What this means, as I have been noticing, is that I will from time to time repeat myself. I am,…

Day 32: Habits of “The Richest Man in Babylon”

Posted on August 3, 2022

Today I listened to part of an audio book of George S. Clason’s “The Richest Man in Babylon,” a classic of mid 20th Century prosperity literature that includes titles such as “Think…

Day 31: Just Keep Going…!

Posted on August 2, 2022

This feeling of forward momentum has come over me lately. And a thought that keeps going on in the back of my mind: “Just keep going. Just keep going. You’ll get somewhere…

Day 30: Ten Ways I am Being Kind to Myself

Posted on August 1, 2022

This year, the theme of my personal growth seems to be about being kind to myself. It’s not always easy, but I do feel that I am making progress in this area….

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