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You are on a long journey and you finally reach your destination. Now what, now that you have arrived? Should you continue?
You’ve planned this adventure for a long time. Weeks or months; maybe most of...
This article is the last in my mini-series on fear, stress and anxiety.
In the United States today, nearly 100 million adults—more than 40 percent of the population—regularly use some chemical substanc...
You are. Miraculous, that is.
If you are reading or hearing this, you are here, alive and conscious. And that, my friends, is truly a miracle, because there is no rational explanation for it—for you.
I ...
It’s easy to feel “less than,” especially in today’s world, where every time you doom scroll your social media feed you are bombarded with tales of the (apparently) rich, carefree and famous. You prob...
Let’s just get it over with; think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable:
You’re afraid.
I’m afraid. Everyone is afraid.
If you don’t think you’re afraid, it’s because low-level (or more) fear has be...
The seasons change quickly where I live. I’ve been aware of this for some time, but this year, I tried to catch it. To mark the exact day that it happens. I have a thesis: If we pay more attention to ...
The lack of meaning in life is a soul-sickness whose full extent and import our age has not yet begun to comprehend. - C.G. Jung
Ask people to list the most important things in life, and you will typic...
There is no shortage of important discussion topics in the personal transformation/self-improvement/positive psychology world in which I work. My current focus is on helping people who are facing majo...
NOTE: This article is longer than my usual Mindset Monday posts, but there are a lot of new people coming to the Hardcore Happiness community, and I just (August, 2025, as I write this) launched a Har...
The most basic right is to defend yourself, to protect your life. So what happens when the enemy is you? You still have to fight back!
A Dangerous Foe
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
What is you...
What would increase your well-being and satisfaction? More health? More wealth? Better relationships? Whether you want fame and fortune or just peace and quiet, it all starts with one question: Are yo...
Sometimes the search for happiness involves touchy-feely discussions, sometime techy talks. This week we are getting a bit scientific and have more to say about everyone’s favorite molecule: dopamine....
I have three nice pens.
One is a Cross that my mother gave me many years ago. I told her, “I’ll write my Ph.D. dissertation with this.” (I did, when I was 29). Another is a Waterman Expert, still in it...
I would never think to tell anyone how to live; that is a concept as individual as you and as malleable as water.
What I do have is a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very l...
Life is a series of unpredictable events. We bounce along between triumph and tragedy, spend too much time in survival mode, and never get a clear read on exactly why we are here. Sometimes our contin...
