Category Archives for "happiness"

Let me see if I can paint an accurate picture of your life. You get thrown off emotionally almost every single day of your life. From petty annoyances to the deep-seated anxieties you have to the over-analyzing of your past and the incessant worrying about the future, you just feel like you’re caught in an […]

2019 was a crazy ride for me. I quit my job to become a full-time writer, separated from my wife, celebrated my daughter’s third birthday, went partially blind in one eye, took leaps and bounds professionally, and had to start all over personally. This year taught me to be even bolder in 2020. This list […]

Every time I see someone driving a brand new luxury car, I picture them being massively insecure. I feel like that car is the only thing in life they have to show for their efforts and that driving it is a coping mechanism for the fact they really don’t feel whole. In reality, this isn’t […]

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal I woke up this morning and did something I haven’t done in years, maybe even a decade or more. Rather, I didn’t do something — check my phone the moment I woke up.  I decided to try […]

One thing all of society can agree on — water is good for you. Surely, no one thinks water is bad, right? I hope not. Anyway, why am I bringing this up? Even water can kill you if you drink too much of it at once. This happens to people who take ex or molly, […]

Since I started thinking this way, my life improved dramatically. If you learn how to think this way, your life will improve dramatically, too. First, let me talk about what this way of thinking helps you fix. Regardless of whether or not I know you, I can probably guess a few things about you. You […]

Does it ever seem strenuous simply to exist? Do you feel like you live in an over-stimulated whirlwind? Job, errands, friends, life-path, hobbies, news, social media, Netflix. Lotta inputs there. It’s strange that, in times of relative abundance and material wealth, we seem to be more stressed-out than ever. Our ancestors, who’s brains we still […]

With the exception of psychopaths and whatnot, most people are good people. Odds are, you’re a good person. You have flaws. You make mistakes. At times, you might even hurt people and do bad things. But all of these things wrapped together are what make you a whole person. But what do we do when […]

Before I talk about keeping a gratitude list, I want to talk about the word itself — gratitude. Gratitude can be a nebulous and meaningless term. It can be a crutch to hide from your ambition. Or, it could be the key to true happiness, sanity, and contentment. How you define and use gratitude means […]

If we were all being honest, we’d admit we hate ourselves sometimes. We hate the parts of ourselves that we don’t tell anyone else about. We hate our shadow. Even for people who often feel good about themselves, you can’t avoid hating yourself at least some of the time at least a teeny tiny bit. […]