Category: emotion

  • Doing What Feels Right (Preface)

    As a preface to my Doing What Feels Right, I should explain the following. I’ve identified two strong character traits have prevented me from living this way. 1. As a child, I was far more interested in accuracy and objective reality than emotion and subjective reality. I believe emotion was a flawed compass and a…

  • Doing What Feels Right

    Doing What Feels Right: Preface I’ve decided to take a novel new approach to living. This decision will effect the decisions I make every day that ultimately affect the course of my life. This decision will effect every thought that passes through my head in every waking minute. Let’s call this novel new approach to…

  • Nigel Marsh: How to Make Work-Life Balance Work

    Certain job and career choices are fundamentally incompatible with being meaningfully engaged on a day to day basis with a young family. The reality of the society that we’re in is that there are thousansd and thousands and people of out there leading lives of quiet, screaming desperation, where they working long hard hours at…

  • Relocation and Relationship Pain

    Sometimes change is unwelcome; it can feel like it’s taking us somewhere we don’t want to go. In this case, change is literally taking me somewhere. It’s not that I’m not excited about new opportunities; it’s that I’m reluctant to leave the budding opportunities, relationships and experiences where I am now. Usually, I welcome change;…

  • How to Triumph in Life

    Cómo Triunfar en la Vida You must succeed. 1. Honesty     Be honest with yourself.     Recognize your mistakes.     Correct your mistakes.     —Learn. 2. Criticism     Do not criticize others.     Try to see the best in all people.     Try to see the best in you.     Try to see the best in all things.     —Love. 3. Neurasthenia     Avoid neurasthenia.…

  • Neurasthenia

    Neurasthenia is a psycho-pathological term first used by George Miller Beard in 1869 to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, neuralgia and depressed mood. Symptoms: The condition was explained as being a result of exhaustion of the central nervous system’s energy reserves, which Beard attributed to modern civilization. Wikipedia: Neurasthenia See also:…