Archive for the 'Happiness' Category

So proud

October 29th, 2008

I’m a Georgia Bulldog. On Saturdays I bleed red and black. I cannot tell you how proud I am that Mark Richt is our head coach. I actually have had the opportunity to meet with him when I threw a charity flag football event for the Athens, GA Boys and Girls Club. And I can […]

Jewish Perfection

July 25th, 2008

Perfection is definitely not a Jewish thought or attribute. Consider the patriarchs of Judaism such as Noah who gets drunk, Jacob who steals his brother’s birthright by misleading his father Isaac, and even Moses, the greatest of all Jews, speaks with a lisp and disobeys God. And we could have a field day talking about […]

Voyage

July 16th, 2008

This is one of the best things I’ve ever read:
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen, who play with their boats at sea–”cruising”, it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and […]

Morris Smith is quite an inspiration

June 2nd, 2008

This is a fantastic article about Morris Smith leaving his job as the head of Fidelity Magellan and pursuing a life of meaning and study. I think you can learn a lot from his example.
Morris Smith from Fidelity

“What do you do for a living?”

June 1st, 2008

I had a conversation with one of my best friends this weekend and we talked about many things. My friend was commenting on how much I had changed and asked me about some of the steps I had taken to effect that change. And we touched on a very important point that has been of […]

Happiness can go down the tube

April 3rd, 2008

Very interesting study reported in the Wall Street Journal on happiness and how TV may affect it adversely.
“Instead, there’s been a significant increase in the hours devoted to what the authors call “neutral downtime,” which is mostly watching television. Women now spend 15% of their waking hours staring at the tube, while men devote 17%.
Watching […]