Category: WW – h) Practicing Happy

Week 77 Wandering (5-14-2024) – Suffer less, Advice for the outdoors, How to make sink cleaning fun, New favorite song

Enoughering of the suffering Delayed gratification might work for success but not happiness Tweet I was thinking about this the other day. I’ve always delayed delayed delayed in the delusion that one day I’d be ‘Happy’. And then I realized that was the dumbest perspective I could ever have. Have to be happy now. Advice…

May 15, 2024
Week 73 Wanderings (4-9-24) – Enjoyment is sometimes a choice, Faith in the future by Jobs, Long term planning, Overcoming fear

Enjoyment is sometimes a choice “Can you have an experience you don’t experience? The finest plate at a Michelin star restaurant might as well be a bowl of noodles if your mind is elsewhere” Reminiscent of last week’s Week 72 Wanderings PS – Reading Oliver Burkeman’s 4000 Weeks – Time Management for Mortals and will…

April 8, 2024
Week 67 Wanderings (2-20-2023) – Venturing in to the Unknown and life as a dreamer

A Juicy Quote “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Henry David Thoreau I actually found this quote on the intro to Dave Chapelle’s special. I love it. Seems like nobody really…

February 20, 2024
Week 65 Wanderings (2-6-23)

$100 Advice – Ben Frank Sometimes I get impatient. I want what I want now. But I find it so difficult to actually slow down and be okay with the progress being made in the here and now. So difficult that sometimes I get anxious about the future, worried about what will come.| But I…

February 5, 2024
Week 64 Wanderings (1-30-24) – Nostalgic Song, Podcast on drugs and anthropology, Unexpected wisdom from Drake, Philosophy from a painter

A Song Rediscovered Fast Car by Tracy Chapman I listened to this song for maybe 25 minutes straight. Stumbled upon it from some Twitter thread after first hearing it years ago. The lyrics hit way harder this time around. Cool ass story and so sad at the same time. That’s music for the soul right…

January 30, 2024
Week 59 Wanderings (12-26-2023)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Hopefully you enjoy yourself. Here’s some ideas to hopefully make Christmas just a tad easier. Some Discounted Joy “The value of a smile at Christmas It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of…

December 26, 2023
Week 52 Wanderings (11-6-2023)

Language vs Emotion Coined by Julia West. Discovered in the book Emotional Intelligence 2.0 The deeper I dive in to the nuances of the English language and just how powerful words are, the more I realize the importance of being specific. The same way in the book 1984, words like ‘Rebellion’ were banned to help…

November 6, 2023