Category: Happiness

  • Connecting with Your Soul

    My main spiritual focus over the last several months has been consciously connecting with my Soul. You may think of your Soul as spirit guides, the Holy Spirit, your higher self, or any number of monikers. I think it’s just slightly different conceptions of the same thing, but I like using the term “Soul”. The…

  • Meet Chickadee

    If you follow this website, you know I’m a lover of dogs, especially golden retrievers. My two boys, Buddy and Rigs, passed away earlier this year, and life hasn’t been the same since then, in a bad way. I had intended to wait until 2016 to get a new dog, but the pressure inside me…

  • Resistance and Connecting the Dots

    Usually we’re unable to connect the dots of our lives until certain events have been over for a while, especially bad events. But I’m sure there are instances in your life that were unpleasant or downright terrible at the time, but in retrospect, you can see that some of the things you love most about your…

  • Living Creatively

    As I’ve been listening to The Power of Now on loop in my car and reading Creativity: Unleashing the Forces Within before bed, I’ve noticed that many of the ideas overlap. I’d like to share one of those ideas with you. This idea has, just in the last few days, brought great joy into my life. The…

  • Two Years

    I was lying in bed last night reading after a long day of work, and it occurred to me that it has been around two years since I started this site. So I opened my computer to check the date of the first post of this site and the date is 11-7-12. Today is the two-year anniversary of…

  • The Virtues of a Flip Phone

    Just over a month ago I switched from my iPhone to an old flip phone. Have a look: It’s a real piece of shit. It has nothing. No camera, no photo texts, just calling and texting. And texting is a real pain in the ass with T9 or worse, the Abc/abc format. Maybe you remember. I…

  • Life Lessons from Dogs

    I’ve had the supreme privilege of having spent the last 10 years of my life with not one, but two beautiful golden retrievers. As we’ve grown older together, as I’ve watched their faces gain wisdom and silver fur, as they’ve come to lower into and rise from their lying positions more slowly and with more labored groaning sounds, I’ve…

  • Your Bubble of Solitude

    As I lay in bed the other night, after going through my pre-sleep ritual, I started to think of the people I love. It was almost midnight and most of them were presumably asleep. It occurred to me that there was almost a 100% chance that they were not thinking of me. No one in…

  • Interesting Near-Death Experiences

    I’ve written about a couple near-death experiences (NDEs) here and here, but I wanted to discuss a few more because: 1. We’re all curious about what happens when we die; 2. Reading about them is comforting and makes it easier to keep everything in perspective, which enables us to be happier in general; 3. They’re entertaining as hell.…

  • The Nature of Personal Reality

    This post is a review of the most empowering book I’ve ever read: The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know, by Jane Roberts (and Seth). I finished reading it last week and just today finished transcribing the passages I doggy eared while using the best…