Category Archives: Happiness Project

spots of light

February 12, 2010 – 7:36 pm

If there’s one (more) thing I have trouble wrapping my head around it’s to remember that happiness and depression are not mutually exclusive. While I continue to deal with my own version of The Dark™ I also have moments or periods or whatever of happiness. Today was cookie day at the nursing home. I’ve been [...]

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happiness

November 23, 2009 – 11:16 pm

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. – Thomas Szasz This was one of my Google quotations today. I’ve been thinking about it off and on all day. Is happiness really imaginary? I don’t think that it [...]

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it’s not a problem

September 21, 2009 – 11:02 am

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” ~Epictectus I wonder why we, as human beings, are so prone to worry about the things over which we have no control. It seems that since caveman days we have tried to [...]

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science of happiness

September 5, 2009 – 8:45 pm

Last weekend, I discovered podcasts. Oh, I knew they existed – I just didn’t know how easy they were to download with my Zune. So, I gathered a bunch of the podcasts that I try to listen to regularly plus some others and I was reintroduced to the TED talks. I’ve enjoyed the TED talks [...]

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I wonder what the future has in mind for me

September 4, 2009 – 10:36 am

I wonder what tomorrow has in mind for me or am I even in its mind at all ~Styx I’ve had about a week of one-day-at-a-timing it. I feel pretty solidly back on track but I know that if relax my hypervigilance I’ll be right back to where I was in no time. This is [...]

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could you hand me a paddle, please?

August 26, 2009 – 7:37 pm

Over the course of the past year I have developed a series of axioms that I think are important for me in my efforts toward happiness and life in general. They live over on my sidebar where I can look at them regularly and be reminded of what they mean to me. Thing is, I [...]

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and now a word from the swamp

June 16, 2009 – 8:47 pm

Whatever happened to your happiness project? That’s a fair question as I have not written about it directly in some time now. (oh yikes, since April 25!) It hasn’t gone away. When I decided to overhaul this blog last fall, I wanted to focus on the positive — in other words, the way out of [...]

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on being human

April 25, 2009 – 7:23 am

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – David Deida I wrote back in March about how I am having trouble visualizing myself at a lower weight. It seems that this is an issue that does not go away no matter how carefully I ignore it. [...]

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happy friday

April 17, 2009 – 8:09 am

I have had some rough days lately but the fact is, they’re just rough days. It’s important to remember that overall, things are going pretty well. I’ve made a lot of hard changes in a short time and it is not surprising that everything isn’t constantly perfect. It’s okay, progress is not a straight line. [...]

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headed for the ground

April 15, 2009 – 9:19 am

life is full of lots of up and downs but the distance feels further when it’s headed for the ground and there’s nothing more painful than to let your feelings take you down ~Tommy Page I haven’t written much about my happiness (life) project in probably a couple months. It’s still there. Sometimes it feels [...]

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