Referral Friday is an ongoing series inspired by John Jantsch’s Make-a-Referral Week. For more about that, and loads more referrals for everything from cobblers to coaches to gee-tar teachers, start here. Pass it on, baby! My friend, the brilliant, talented and all-around-awesome Gretchen Rubin, has a new book called The Happiness Project coming out. In [...]
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Launch is great. Synthesis is superb. In between the two, however, is most often an ocean of hell, a vast, tedious chasm between the happiness of just being and the happiness of informed being. That’s way denser than the fluffity-fluff I usually throw out here, so let me back up a moment and tell a [...]
Most times, I don’t really want to do x, where “x” = shower, work, walk, f*ck, sleep, cook and yes, write. Really. Relentlessly optimistic, workaholic, always-on me: most of the time, I’d just rather. . .not. Because. . . ? Because I don’t like feeling like I’m obligated. I don’t like feeling like anyone is [...]
Like driving in Los Angeles (or electricity most anywhere else), change continues to be both a sticky wicket and the only game in town. In other words, I’m not the only one wrasslin’ this bear. Exhibit A (from Andrew, in an email exchange generated by the last post on Change, that Bitch-Dog from Hell): Lately, [...]
Alex Shalman has a lovely and ambitious project going on over at his eponymous personal development site this month. He got an impressive cross-section of people to answer a simple, five-question interview on their own feelings re: happiness, and aggregated the answers, along with some other various & sundry information. There are some big names [...]
It’s been an interesting week so far, and it’s only Monday. First of all, something seems to have been dislodged in my brain, that thing that keeps me from processing stuff I don’t feel like, like paperwork and phone calls (wah wah wah, First World white girl) and from finishing things I’ve started, like work. [...]
I had an interesting chat today with my colorist (and good friend), Marc. Really, I have interesting conversations with most folks these days, since I discovered that the art of conversating (as the kids say) lies in the asking of questions and the hearing of answers rather than the spouting off of commentary. (Fancy that!) [...]
This is Day 8 of a 21-day effort to see the good in what might, at first, look like an irredeemable drag. Its name comes from a classic bit of dialogue uttered by actor Kevin Bacon in a classic film of my generation, Animal House. In my family, we were not blessed with good teeth [...]
This is Day 1 of a 21-day effort to see the good in what might, at first, look like an irredeemable drag. Its name comes from a classic bit of dialogue uttered by actor Kevin Bacon in the comedy classic of my generation, Animal House. It’s easy to be grateful when a pride of angels [...]
I was going to sit down and talk about how hard the past week was…how draining. And it was, in its way. For whatever reason, there was an abundance of drama over the past eight days, the missed deadlines, botched communication and general farkakte-ness that seems to accompany Mercury going retrograde. (I wonder, could things [...]
