As a result of our focused effort to live an examined life, we can extend our creative and resilient resources to all of life’s opportunities.
Staying Motivated When You Don’t Feel It
We still have to find the emotional resources to revitalize our perspective and morale
Despite all this knowledge and technical know-how, everyday life is still a stamina-challenging and anxiety-promoting emotional test.
Opportunism is the Compromise of Authenticity
Opportunism is commonly employed by the oversized American ego
We conventionally and blindly tend to conflate opportunity and opportunism.
Putting it all Together
Creating a life of our own design is not only challenging, it is fun
Creating a life of our own design is not only challenging, it is fun — adult fun.
The Square-Peg-in-a-Round-Hole Misfit
Stress, anxiety and discontent are symptomatic of what is now an outdated mindset.
Resentment is Toxic
We struggle to overcome the intransigence of our resentment whenever and wherever it shows up.
Think Freely, Suffer Less
We think to be challenged, expand our contributions
Here is a thought to begin 2016: Think freely, be who you are, suffer less.
Kiss Your Ego Goodbye
Create a life of your own design
Striving to live the good life brings about a specific problem, namely: What is the good life? Now that we have the means, what is our reason for being?
Fearlessly Present
We entrust ourselves to the struggle for decency and utility
If every generation in recorded history had not insisted that the world was going to hell in a handbasket, we might be tempted to single out our own for lamentation.
Oh, How Wonderful and Rich and Strange
There is more to being civilized than being lawful
There is the opportunity within the framework of civilized personage to live a life of our own design.