Improving The Quality Of Your Life

Our only security is our ability to change.
— John Lilly

Whether you want a better car, a better paying job, a bigger house, or a fluffier cat, you will have to face one big ugly spiky scary thing:  change. It’s not that scary though.

As living beings, we are constantly changing in order to adapt to our environment and live good thriving lives in it. Some changes are massive and difficult to make, while others are small and simple. But no matter the size of the change, there is a common pool of factors affecting almost all individual changes: Read the rest of this entry »

For years and years, misinformed consumers were duped into paying through the nose for television, music, phone calls and information. NOW IT IS FREE. THIS IS THE FUTURE!

Isn’t it funny how with more and more free stuff around people have less and less money? Getting things for free should mean that you’re saving some money. But it just isn’t true. The opposite is. Free costs more.

Things are offered for free, yes. Free calls. Free music. Free television. Free books. Everything is free, but free is selling you something else. Something that isn’t sold to you directly and isn’t the main focus in the picture. Kind of like the current sidebar featured video (the one with the ball). You’re being told to look at the free stuff while your pockets are being picked (okay not really like that but you get the idea.

In the end, free is just another business model. A better one. You’re paying without being aware that you’re paying, and that makes everything in the sales process easier. Which means that you should be more careful who gives you candy. Yes, remember what your mom told you, “never take candy from strangers.” She was right.

Here are the 4 little known truths of free stuff. Read the rest of this entry »

“We live in a country that seems to be in this massive state of delusion, where the idea of what you are is more important than you actually being that. And it actually works just as long as everybody’s winking at the same time. Then, if one person stops winking, you just beat the crap out of that person, and they either starting winking or go somewhere else.”
– Branford Marsalis

The students that get the opportunity to work with this man are some of the best and brightest students America has to offer. They also have to be distinguished in the field of music. And yet, Marsalis insists that these students are immensely flawed, that they demonstrate an unwillingness to really work and instead prefer to have the idea of being something instead of actually working on being that something. Read the rest of this entry »

Business failed? Love of your live left you? Cat died? Got fired? Lost your house? Totaled your expensive car? Found out your favorite TV show got canceled? Friends betrayed you?

“You can spend minutes, days, hours, or months over analyzing a situation, trying to justify what happened. Or you can leave the pieces on the floor and move the f— on.”

– Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971- Sept. 12, 1996)

What would you do if any of that happened to you?

photo by: austinANOMIC

Brring-brring. “Farndale *(quote author), where the hell is your copy?”

“Ah yes, copy. Prose. The written word. Did I tell you that Joseph, our four-year-old, has just written his first word? It’s ‘tbehsp’. Must be Eastern European or something. Not a language I recognise, anyway. Little chap is very gifted.”

“What the —- are you talking about?”

“Like it, like it. An ironic allusion to The Sunday Telegraph’s campaign to stop people swearing in public life. Topical.”

“What is wrong with you?”

“Thanks for asking. I have been feeling a little run down lately. Must be the weather.”

“You’re fired.”

Researchers in Britain say that the ideal phone conversation should last for nine minutes and thirty-six seconds. That is based on the analysis of what more than 2,000 people liked and disliked about their phone conversations. You can read more on that on telegraph.co.uk.

But what should a phone call be? The ideal phone call should be a brief exchange of a few vital pieces of information. Just like a telegraph note in the past, only updated to have voice and almost complete mobility. Read the rest of this entry »