All posts tagged happiness

Learned Optmimism-How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

Posted on July 19, 2010 at 3:13am by admin No Comment

When you look at this image do you see a glass half empty or a glass half full?  I really have no patience for talk about positive thinking.  I know it to be like my frequent visits to my hair dresser to eliminate my graying hair.  You can apply whatever topical agent you like, but…

The Happiness Project-or how I spent a year chasing myself with a bunch of rules on how to live

Posted on July 12, 2010 at 3:00am by admin No Comment

Okay, that isn’t the subtitle of the book, it is actually Or, Why I spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, but it is what I would call it.   I loved this book when I saw it on the shelf.  I…

Powerful Practice

Posted on April 6, 2010 at 9:35am by admin No Comment

Practicing.  I’m practicing right now. So are you.  What are you practicing?  Singing?  Languages?   But we aren’t just practicing our skills for our passions.  Daily we are also practicing thoughts that create unhappiness for ourselves.   No one can hurt us as deeply as we injure ourselves.  With the inside job there is not deflection or…

Happiness Ideas Coming In

Posted on March 5, 2010 at 9:38am by admin No Comment

My ‘Happiness is’ project is stirring different responses  for each of us on the road, but I’m seeing some themes.  The first common theme is ‘time out’.  The out of town gig give us the pre- approved time to do all those little projects  (reading and arts passions outside of our work) that get short…