Ask Wild” Willie Seeley of Manahawkin, New Jersey. He is a lotto winner. He wants his life back. Willie Seeley poses for a photo outside his home in Manahawkin, N.J., on Sept. 20, with the new GMC pick-up truck he bought with winnings from a Powerball jackpot he shared in August.
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A Puff of Absurdity: Faith that the End is Near
In today’s G&M, Jared Bland writes from a perspective I’ve been taking lately as well. “Despite seeming reasonable in other areas of my life, I believe that we are quite likely living in or near the fabled end times….[I]t’s becoming easier and easier to feel that the shadow hanging over
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Why aren’t they happy? #nlpoli
Here are some screen captures for your consideration. CBC’s Jeremy Eaton took the video as part of his coverage of a great announcement. The provincial government is putting money into a pilot project that would let some personal care homes take in residents needing higher levels of care than the
Continue readingLeDaro: Happiness: Buddha’s Wisdom
Lately I don’t feel like watching news as they are too depressing – wars, murders, famine, natural disasters, frauds, and so on. I thought I will share, with my readers, Buddha’s wisdom on happiness: “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle
Continue readingThings Are Good: Be Optimistic by Learning About It
The book Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Dr. Martin Seligman is not new, but it is to me. For others who have not heard about it before, it looks like an uplifting read. The central thesis of the book is to essentially learn what
Continue reading350 or bust: How Our Secrets Steal Our Lives
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust. Here’s a fascinating TEDx talk by South African trainer and speaker Bruce Muzik whose “passion is having people experience unprecedented freedom and happiness, through being Authentic.”
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Internet Wisdom from Cracked.com?
Most of the articles on Cracked.com make you into a crazed euphoria seeking serial clicking monkey. Not necessarily a bad permutation, but almost always a drain on the productive use of ones time. However, I really enjoyed this article on the misconception we hold about what will make us happy
Continue readingThings Are Good: A Look at Happiness Through Design
The Design Exchange in Toronto has invited Stefan Sagmeister to explore what happiness is all about. The artist has done some great album artwork and is now exploring how to bring happiness via stats and images. It looks like a good show! In the spirit of design week, join us
Continue readingThe Quantum Buddha's Blog: The New Age
I am thinking about this task I set before me. But what is this task? Every time I define it, I eventually realize that my solution is disconnected from life. This is happening more and more. When I examine a problem, and break it down into its essential parts, understand
Continue readingThe Quantum Buddha's Blog: The New Age
I am thinking about this task I set before me. But what is this task? Every time I define it, I eventually realize that my solution is disconnected from life. This is happening more and more. When I examine a problem, and break it down into its essential parts, understand
Continue readingDeath By Trolley: This New Year’s, Resolve to Stop Chasing Happiness
Many wisdom traditions encourage a path or process orientation rather than a destination or product orientation to living well. Happiness makes for a poor goal. It’s not particularly well-defined. What is happiness? How much happiness is enough to be happy with – to not eventually be let down by? The
Continue reading350 or bust: Saturday At The Movies
This is a video about what this holiday season is meant to be about – love and compassion, even in the face of intolerance and hate: * EveryoneMatters.2012.com
Continue readingThings Are Good: Gross National Happiness is a Good Thing
Bhutan is a small country with a big idea that can change the world. For many years now gross national happiness is how the country monitors its progress, which is the opposite to how other countries measure success (which is from the quantity of money exchanged). With a world population
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
His Holiness the Dalai Lama speaking on compassion and it’s connection to finding purpose in life.
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This should get you smiling…
Continue reading350 or bust: Perspective Is Everything
It’s TED Talk Tuesday on 350orbust, and Rory Sutherland the Ad Man is back. His message is essentially the same as in his 2009 TED Talk, but it bears repeating that our perception of an event or a circumstance is more important than the “re…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a healthy body
Mens sana in corpore sano: a sound mind in a healthy body – a very good motto that is. The saying comes from the Roman Juvenal, and it applies as much today as it did two thousand years ago, of course. I’ve alternated, myself, between being a certified bon vivant,
Continue readingThings Are Good: Track the Small Things for Big Happiness
Teresa Amabile is a professor at Harvard Business School who has researched diary keeping and has made a very nifty realization: even keeping a few thoughts a day can amount to huge differences in happiness. I use I Done This to track my days, perhaps you’d like to too after
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
The kind of hope I often think about …is, I believe, a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us or we don’t. Hope is not a prognostication — it’s an orientation of the spirit. Each of us must find real, fundamental hope
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