Recently, I sent out a survey to readers and email subscribers to ask how I might be most helpful to their finding meaningful, purposeful lives that help the world. I’m still analyzing results and will say more later. But for now, one of the questions was “What obstacles do you face when it comes to feeling […]
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Ten Ways to Overcome Futility (About Life, The State of The World or Anything Else)
I’ve been saying since the No Impact Man project first started in 2007 that lasting personal happiness does not come without contributing to community and world happiness. But there are big issues that stop us from trying to contribute or that make us really frustrated when we do try. I know this because I sent out […]
Free Book for Helping Me Help You?
Dear Friends. In this post, I am asking your opinion and thoughts about how my work can be most helpful to you and people like you. I have prepared a short survey that you can fill out here. I am asking as many people as possible to take the survey so I can make my writing, blogging, […]
The Special Way Only You Can Help
The other day I was sitting in group of people feeling in a bad mood. I was thinking about my “problems.” I looked around the room and I thought, “How come no one else in this room has the problems I have?” Then I remembered the truth: Everyone in the room does have the same problems […]
What If You Were Already Dead?
What if you could no longer earn any money… If you couldn’t go on vacations… If you didn’t have to worry about retirement… If you couldn’t find the best restaurant… If you no longer even had to match your socks… … what would you do? We are so caught up in the petty concerns of […]
What Do You Trust?
There is a question for each of us personally as we move forward in the world but also as our whole society moves forward. What path should we follow? Where should we go? What is our compass point? That existential question has always existed, of course, but with so many dangers to our world the question is […]
On Not Feeling Guilty For Your Privilege
Lately, I have heard a lot of talk around people saying they feel guilty for their “privilege.” By privilege, they mean the life advantages they did not earn but that came as a result of skin color or birthplace or age or gender or sexuality. People eat good meals and then say, “I’m just feeling bad because I […]
Happiness = Caring for Environment and People
In all the spiritual disciplines, happiness is said to come in part from a sense of interdependence, at-oneness or what the Catholics call communion. When you are at-oned–atoned–there is no us and no them and nothing to fight. There is peace. And happiness. This type of happiness includes generosity because once you sense your interdependence […]