Posted August 8, 2009 - 06:00 by Paul Michael
In advertising, my chosen career, there is an unwritten rule for working with clients that makes everyone’s lives just a little better. It’s the three F rule. But when I explained it to people outside of my industry, they immediately saw ways that it could apply to their own lives. And so, I’m sharing it with you.
Posted February 26, 2009 - 08:02 by Philip Brewer
You've no doubt seen the question in many different forms. Sometimes it's, "What would you do if you learned you were going to die tomorrow?" Other times it's "What would you do if you knew you'd live a hundred years?" Some people try to pack the whole thing into one exhortation, "Live like you were going to die tomorrow, plan like you'd live forever." It's always bugged me.
Posted January 21, 2009 - 13:03 by Nora Dunn
Let's explore the lives of two very different people with an aim to discover what the key to happiness is. It may be simpler than you think.
Posted August 3, 2008 - 20:26 by Paul Michael
This is a big hypothetical but I thought I’d throw the question out there and open it up to the wise readers of Wisebread. Let’s forget the other alternatives, there are amazing jobs with stellar pay, and way too many of the opposite. But if you had to choose between the two in the headline, which would it be?
Posted June 22, 2008 - 14:05 by Philip Brewer
Here are two ideas you already know: You won't achieve maximum happiness by always doing the most pleasurable thing you can think of at each moment, but neither will you find it by always deferring present happiness in favor of greater future happiness. The key is balancing these two things. And the genius in this book is that it gives you tools for finding that balance.
Posted May 22, 2008 - 04:01 by Philip Brewer
Is there an amount of money that's too small to concern yourself with? People make that case, usually saying something like "Life is too short to waste time counting pennies." They're missing the point, though, because they're focusing on the wrong thing.
Posted February 19, 2008 - 02:10 by Philip Brewer
Studies regularly find that Danish people are the happiest people in the world. At first glance, it looks like the conditions that make them that way aren't really available to people elsewhere, but that's not really true. You too can be one of the happiest people on earth.
Posted September 6, 2007 - 16:27 by Philip Brewer
A lot of happiness (and unhappiness) comes from within. But there are other things that matter a lot: relationships, doing important work, living your life according to your values, having a spiritual aspect to your life.
Posted June 7, 2007 - 00:30 by Ed O'Reilly
Sometimes, being frugal means not just saving money; sometimes it means not spending any at all. There’s been a growing preoccupation with working more to earn more--to buy more; yet, it never seems enough. A cursory glance at a landscape of malls, fast food chains and airplane hangar-sized clubs for buying sugary snacks in a container the size of an oil drum implies that this condition of over-consumption is reaching epidemic proportions.
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