Our chances of going hungry, being eaten by tigers, or falling off a cliff are vanishingly small. So are we happy? No, we get busy fearing smaller things instead. Even when the things we fear are excruciatingly tiny and ridiculous, the fear can still stop us if we let it.
Tag: satisfaction
Wait, don’t jump out of the plane after all! (an alternate view on fear)
Everybody’s talking about confronting your fear head-on and jumping out of planes. What to make of someone advising the opposite?
10 Tips for Getting Out of Your Own Way
You want to do something, but… you put it off, you think about all the things that could go wrong, maybe you talk yourself out of trying at all. If you would just get out of your own way, imagine what you could accomplish! Here are 10 tips to help.
How to know when to quit
Do you ever wish you could see into the future and know how things will turn out, so you can stop throwing energy at things that aren’t going to amount to anything?
What’s keeping you from inner peace?
Most people are unhappy. There are many possible reasons for this, but one of the most common is that there’s a conflict between their actions and what they truly value.
Making your dreams come true: where the rubber meets the road
What would make your life something to savor? What would make you feel like a genius of life-rocking awesomeness? If you knew you were dying, you would do whatever it took to make it happen. Well, guess what? We’re all dying.
Filled with dreams but stuck? Here’s a push.
There are a lot of different kinds of stuck, and a lot of different resources to help with them. Normally I don’t review stuff here, but this is just too awesome not to share.
Finding your purpose in life: could it be this simple?
I’ve long struggled with trying to find meaning and purpose in my life. Why am I here? What’s most important? What should I be striving for? During the religious times, add “what does God want me to do?”
How to rock 2011
After the holidays, returning to work and all the ordinary routines can feel a year’s life force is sucked away every morning you walk in the office door. That feeling sucks, but it can be channeled into a good opportunity to re-evaluate your life.
How to cure your daily boredom headache
For each of us, it comes down to being a cog/zombie or figuring out who we are and who we want to become, then becoming that. Nobody wants to write, or read, or live Tales from the Rut.
Life Guides: Ash Ambirge of The Middle Finger Project
The best way I’ve found to do that is to do work that is interesting and meaningful to me, work I love. I just need to figure out how to support myself while doing that. That’s why I’m so excited to feature someone who can offer guidance on this very thing: Ash Ambirge of The Middle Finger Project.
The way to happiness: who’s right?
There’s a lot of conflicting advice out there about how to be happy. What should you think in order to be happy?