Think Positive. Live Happy.
Posted in Dreams, Adventure, Imagination, Health, Happiness, Inspirational on Apr 21st, 2008
I’ve only just discovered the 101 things in 1001 days project. I know it’s been around for awhile now but I only just stumbled onto it last night. And this morning it got me thinking, mainly about whether or not I think I could actually do that and perhaps more importantly could I even think […]
Posted in Health, Inspirational, Philosophy on Mar 7th, 2008
I came across Green as a Thistle yesterday. You probably haven’t heard of Vanessa Farquharson or her blog , unless you read the National Post and/or are into green blogging, but you may very well see her book in a store near you in the next year or so. But let’s start at the beginning.
One […]
Posted in Health on Feb 28th, 2008
I have been doing pretty well with my New Year’s resolution of improving my health, if I do say so myself. If anything, I have become more aware of what I put into my body each day and what effects it will have. Sure, I still eat the occasional cheeseburger but discovering the joys […]
Posted in Health, Happiness, Inspirational, Uncategorized on Jan 29th, 2008
I talked to my brother this weekend and found out that he had run half a marathon, 13 miles, the day before. By himself. Because he felt like it. He’s been jogging on and off for about 3 years and in the last 6 months has been getting back into and there has been talk […]
The New York Times has published a health article entitled “Brought on by Darkness, Disorder Needs Light.” The article discusses Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD, no pun intended) which affects many Americans. People who suffer from SAD become depressed during the cold winter months when there is less light and sunshine. […]
Posted in Imagination, Health, Happiness, misc on Dec 10th, 2007
In a post last week I used a comic by Toothpaste for Dinner, by far one of my favourite web comics. Let’s back track a bit though. A conversation with my mom last week made me realize how inaccessible the internet was to such a huge demographic, which includes my mother, that I am now […]
“Just try your hardest” is something we tell ourselves alot, but none of us really believe it, do we? Because the fact is ‘your best’ is never really good enough or else we wouldn’t walk around telling ourselves to ‘try your hardest’? Concepts like this are somewhat based on perfectionism - the idea being that […]
Beliefnet has a very popular article (judging by its number of ‘diggs’) entitled Top 12 Depression Busters. The fact that so many readers not only read the article, but digg it for others to find, means that there are a good many of us who struggle with depression.
Whether it is biochemical or caused by […]
My kid is sick, which means I’m not getting any sleep. Or at least incredibly limited amounts. I know that in a few days my brain will have started to turn off to most things that don’t involve child medication and Seinfeld reruns. It always takes me a few days to realize how much sleep […]
An article at Brain Based Business - 5 Tips to Live Beyond Brooding - made me think about negativity in general and what it can do to a person. Worrying, obsessing and sulking are not proper ways of dealing with adversity. They may be the easiest, and the ones to which we […]