If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve never been very good at keeping New Year’s Resolutions, and I have a feeling I am not alone in this regard.  Many a January first has gone by with me having the best of intentions.  I will eat more [...]

I was recently asked to list my top five to ten strategies for “thriving.”  Given the body I inhabit, I picked ten.  Here they are:
1)  (I bet this is a unique top pick)  GREAT DRUGS…legitimate ones, of course.  I would literally be dead were it not for biotechnology and the pharmaceutical industry.  Daily inhaled and [...]

A very interesting study was done in 2002, looking at what made college kids happy(1).  Now, I know what you are thinking.  All college kids are happy!  Why wouldn’t they be?  They have no responsibility.  They get to wake up when they want.  They are free from parental control for the first time in their [...]

Got your attention, didn’t I?
I wish it were that simple, but alas, it does take some planning and some discipline.
The first easy step is to find out why you want to be fit!  How simple.  You don’t even need running shoes for this one.  Take out a sheet of paper and list as many ways  [...]

I am a personal fan of the field of positive psychology.  I love to read about what it is and what it is teaching us about the science of happiness.  I like to take courses and attend conferences about the subject.  In fact, the whole purpose of this blog (and hopefully of a future book) [...]

Engage Fully In Life
What do I mean by “engage” fully?
I mean two things, actually.  Both are ways of connecting with life in a particular way.  Both of these concepts are discussed more and more frequently in the last few years.  Just about every course I take, or book I read about happiness discuss these ideas.  [...]

Is it Take or Bring?
I never know.  But for purposes of my acronym, it has to be Take.
T is for:  Take complete control of what you can, and take complete responsibility for each of your actions.  In a word, be accountable to yourself, because if not you, then who?
When it comes to living with ongoing [...]

Only what?
This is going to sound like a no-brainer…but here it is, anyway:
Only eat, drink, think and do what is healthy and positive to do for your body, such as it is.
Most people will probably say “duh” to this.  Obviously, we all know that to achieve optimal health, we have to eat healthy food and [...]

Here we go with letter ONE of the soon-to-be-famous acronym:
As I was lying flat on my back on the floor writhing in pain while trying not to move, I was wracking my brain trying to use this rule just this morning! Eventually, it worked…but let me digress a bit.
As soon as I stood up [...]

Since this blog is a prologue to a book idea, I think it is appropriate that I lay out my idea in a series of short entries. So here it is.
This came to me at 12:30 pm one night when I could not sleep. I had been brewing an idea for a membership [...]