This morning I ran 9 miles, which is the longest run I have done all year (!). I had an amazing time, yet I right now I am mentally and physically tired,…
Category: Shenanigans & Ruminations
Day 288: Toast
Being as the author does not wish to write much tonight, he shall exercise his prerogative not to do so. Instead, here is the shortest poem he (or anyone?) has ever written:…
Day 283: Still On Message
Life’s a breeze when you find your ease Riding through the trees lighter than the bees We aim to please, it’s a game that frees when we stake our claim in these…
Day 252: Previous Blog Post Quotables
Tonight I thought I might just dig among a few of my past blog posts for some quotables. There’s no theme to these quotes, though they follow similar lines to things I…
Day 187: Who Makes the Laws in Your Imagination?
Do we have any power over the way we perceive the world around us? Is that perception a static thing, a product of what is outside of ourselves, or can we influence…
Day 108: Happiness is an Inside Job
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about happiness, it truly is, as they say, an inside job. It seems that every time my happiness has expanded, it’s because of something I did,…
Day 60: The Numbers Don’t Lie
I’ve always been a big fan of numbers. As a kid, I enjoyed math. As an adult, I enjoy investing. I also enjoy tracking my runs. These all involve numbers. It’s interesting…
Day 42: Appreciating My Resilient 2020 Posts
Last month I wrote I was enjoying re-reading old posts from 2020. I have continued to be impressed by the mindset I see in my words that first year of the Pandemic….
Day 35: Now You Know What I Care About!
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 33: Oops… I wrote it again
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,…