I would like it to be the “just think about it” or visualize it. Unfortunately, all the New Age gurus are wrong.
(via everybodyhasabrain)
Knowing Doesn't Matter
Trying to Figure Things Out | Stream of Consciousness At Its Worst
Money can have a huge influence on our relationships because we often make short term money decisions at the long-term expense of our health. I had a lot of compulsions related to money anxieties and would sacrifice relationships so I could try to control my money anxieties. I would make excuses and rationalize why I “needed” to choose money instead of those relationships, but I didn’t need to—I had just committed so intensely to unhealthy assumptions about money that I didn’t want to believe I had any choices, or that it was my choices that had put me in the position of choosing money over friends.
Unhealthy compulsions related to money are very engrained in our culture and many businesses depend on making you anxious about money and encouraging those unhealthy compulsions. Be aware of that. Be mindful of the decisions you make with money and how they could be fueling anxiety and unhappiness in your life. You do have choices and you can challenge the assumptions you’ve been taught.
- Mark
Chickens on an All Vegetarian Diet on Flickr.
A Depressing Read
I can see why this book got to be in the a favorite of Oprah and Redbook or whatever. It’s a chick lit book. Written by a woman but with two male protagonists that are written in the first person. Two characters that are each living their own life connected by a woman who eventually kills herself.
I have one more section left to read and, so far, the book is not about the protagonist with all the heft.
It’s a somber book. The pace is pretty quick, though.
Who’s In Charge?
It always amazes me that for whatever reason, people I pay money to perform a service ca always turn things to their advantage, take my money and give me the service they would prefer or change the price or something.
Same tree from the other side on Flickr.
Tree on Flickr.
I’m a risk taker on Flickr.
Mint Iced Tea on Flickr.
We all make decisions based on emotion, eh? It doesn’t matter if we’re buying a car that’s red or expensive or recommended by Consumer Reports. It doesn’t matter if we’re making a decision about sleeping with her or him. It doesn’t matter if we’re really not that hungry but we smell a food that kicks in an emotional memory.
We all make decisions based on emotion. We like to think we make decisions based on rational and discerning thought. We don’t, though.
The best we can do is hope that our decisions aren’t permanent. That, if they can’t be completely recalled, maybe they can be mitigated.
Of course, even with the best of circumstances we make mistakes. We just need to be responsible for them and for the outcomes.
(Source: buddhaisy, via everybodyhasabrain)
