Musings and What-not

Mercury gets such a bad rap! This beautiful blue planet gets blamed whenever technology goes wonk-a-doodle, or folks can't communicate all civilized 'n shit!

Living a guilt-free life is much easier than you might think at first. It's a quick and simple matter, once you've made your mind up to it, and there are five basic way to rid yourself of guilt feelings, once and for all. Live your own good life, however you might define that.

Five years ago, I co-signed for my (then) web guy to get a car. I had never co-signed for anyone, and I'll probably never do it again. But the experience was useful for me, and in a moment, it will be useful for you, too.

Many people carry within them a feeling of dissatisfaction, frustration or smoldering anger and resentment at their misfortunes in life.  They feel as if they have been dealt a poor hand and bemoan the unfairness of life.  Others seem to live life in a state of comfortable equilibrium and harmony despite their "lot".  The former find it hard to understand how another can shrug their shoulders and be so accepting of bad luck.  And those who have a "sunny disposition" wonder why everyone cannot be happy and more easygoing about misfortune.

The objective reality of this world is solely produced by the human imagination , in which all things exist. Tonight, I hope to show you how to subjectively appropriate that which already exists in you, and turn it into an objective fact.

I love the Brad Paisley song  Letter to Me  that allows his current older and wiser self to hypothetically go back and give advice to his younger 17-year-old self. I truly wish that Marty  McFly  would show up in his silver DeLorean and let me go back in time to give sage advice to my younger self, but for me it wouldn’t be the teenaged me. Since I was a notorious late-bloomer, I would love to go back to twenty-year old me since so much happened in my 20s (good and bad) that has influenced (good and bad) who I am today. Here are some things I’d like to go back and tell 20-year-old ME.

Many of us find it a constant challenge to juggle the demands at work and home and still “have a life.”  The stress mounts.  And at the end of the day, we often feel like, in an effort to get it all done, we didn’t do anything as well as we would have liked. The report was a day late, and you still missed most of your child’s recital.