Have you ever had one of those days when you simply wake up in a bad mood? When you wake up in a bad mood, whether the bad is depressed, angry, frustrated, or something else, it seems like it is often very hard to shake.  It can easily last through most of the day, and you even interpret everything that happens that day through the filter of your bad mood. There is actually a very [...]

I don’t really know WHY my subscription service has been having issues lately, but I believe that I have them fixed.  Of course, in the midst of fixing them, I also appear to have temporarily broken direct access to articles (it’s fixed now).  If any of you visit the site and notice that one of the articles appearing on the site has not been received in your subscription, be it email or RSS, please let [...]

I am working on bringing the site, and the content, back… they were nearly lost when my server crashed badly.  Stay tuned and I will have them up as I can get to it. Update – I recovered most, if not all, of my old articles, but it appears the images were lost.  At some point I will go back through and add images so that they look nice, but at least the content is [...]

There is very little as important to your overall health as getting enough good sleep.  It affects your mental state, your emotional state, your physical health, and pretty much every other aspect of your life. Note, however, that I didn't just say enough sleep… I said enough good sleep.  Plenty of people get eight hours of sleep each night… some even get ten or more.  A lot of those same people, however, still wake up [...]

Another short one… I'll try to put up a longer one later, but I wanted to let all of you who tried to access the site in the last 18 hours or so know what happened:  my server crashed.  I now have it back up and running, but here is what happened yesterday alone:  my vacuum broke, my clothes dryer started burning up, and my server crashed.  On the other hand, I got a good [...]

Would you like to live an extraordinary life?  A life beyond the normal, tame world where the vast majority of people dwell, a life where what seemed impossible before suddenly seems imminent? Who wouldn't like to live that kind of life?  The funny thing is, it's a lot more achievable than most people think… which is why they sit there and ignore it, not reaching out to take hold of something that is within their [...]

Would you like to live an extraordinary life?  A life beyond the normal, tame world where the vast majority of people dwell, a life where what seemed impossible before suddenly seems imminent? Who wouldn't like to live that kind of life?  The funny thing is, it's a lot more achievable than most people think… which is why they sit there and ignore it, not reaching out to take hold of something that is within their [...]

The record companies, collectively known as the recording industry (or RIAA aka Recording Industry Associaion Of America), have been making some very big, very public mistakes in the last few years… things such as suing the fans that they sell music too, using shady tactics to try to keep you from sharing music, and, of course, for a much longer time they have been giving the artists who actually create the music a ridiculously small [...]

Do you feel like you're stuck in a rut? Want to give your life a kick in the butt so it gets up and starts moving ahead again? Try a few of the following techniques. Don't Procrastinate As soon as you have something important come up, such as having a bill arrive in the mail, take care of it immediately, as in don't even wait until that night. Take care of it as soon as [...]

This morning I was considering the relationship of the subconscious mind to the conscious mind, and the best way of describing it that I could come up with is saying it’s like the evil mastermind’s less intelligent henchman… essentially it’s your conscious mind’s Igor. The subconscious actually has more involvement in our every day, every little action, life than the conscious mind. It’s where the conscious mind sends tasks that are beneath it or too [...]