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: “Toast” by Chris Goslow This post is toast. [fin]
Category: Shenanigans & Ruminations
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 Okay so that ended up being just a stanza that didn’t quite tie together. It’s 9:16pm on a Saturday night. I just saw “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3” with my wife. Excellent movie! I come home inspired. And wanting to keep this short. I will say that I appreciate life, and possibilities, and good movies that enliven…
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 still write about all the time on this blog. Incidentally, all quotes are from 2020 (because I happened to be browsing my 2020 posts on the post index page): From “Carving Out My Corner of the World,” 11/20/20: One thing I love about this blog is that it is my turf. I get to set the rules, 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 or change that perception through the power of our thinking? These days, when I close my eyes I am more aware that the thoughts I have about the world are my thoughts. They are images in my head. They aren’t external reality, though they strongly influence how I experience external reality. And I may not instantly be able…
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, something I gave myself, something I owned about something important to me, some action I took on my own behalf. Certainly others have been involved in that process, but it seems that what really moved the needle of my happiness was me taking ownership in some way for something in my life. One case in point is starting…
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 how revealing numbers are. By doing just a little bit of analysis of the numbers in your own life, you can learn a lot about what you are truly aligned with. The numbers don’t lie! Here’s a number: 704. It’s the number of blog posts published on this blog since I first started it back in April 2016.…
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. I remember I was clear that I wanted to “make my own weather” and make the best of the situation. I’m inspired even today by the clarity and resilience I read in posts from that year. Here are some highlights from April 2020, when the new Pandemic lifestyle was just getting underway. 1. “An Infinite Supply of Well-Being,”…
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 Personal Growth & Self-Care Health & Exercise Creativity My Relationship Household-Related Duties Friendships & Family (Honorable Mention) Let’s go over these one by one: Piano Teaching: This priority is self-evident as my “bread and butter” for 10 1/2 years now. I get a lot of satisfaction out of helping my students, seeing them progress, helping them focus on…
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, after all, the same man writing from day to day, with the same set of interests and topics I like to write about. Several times recently I have been thinking about writing a post, and upon searching on my blog for a similar theme, I find a post where I say something similar. In fact, sometimes I have…
Day 31: Just Keep Going…!
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 good.” Maybe it’s the influence of my viral Youtube video (which today hit 3 million views!) That experience has boosted my confidence that, yes, I can and do reach people. And since that video is four years old, it reminds me to give things time to take root. It’s a variation on the slow and steady approach. It…