Categories Lessons in Life

Paying too much for the whistle

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There’s a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything. Harry Browne 1933 – 2006 Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter to a … [ Continue Reading ]

Categories Finding happiness

What are you missing?

There are none so blind as those who will not see. English Proverb During the commuter rush hour on a morning in January 2007, a young man stood playing a violin in one of Washington D.C.’s metro stations. Roughly 2,000 people passed him as they entered the station. Most barely … [ Continue Reading ]

Categories Finding happiness

The obsession with self-storage

It is much better to die of hunger unhindered by grief and fear than to live affluently beset with worry, dread, suspicion, and unchecked desire. Epictetus 55 – 135 A.D. I want to discuss a growing trend that’s been taking place around the country: the proliferation of self-storage businesses. It … [ Continue Reading ]

Categories Lessons in Life

Your beliefs about money, Part two

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost 1874 – 1963 We’re all familiar with the saying “money can’t buy happiness.” But do you believe it? I suspect the answer is no. If … [ Continue Reading ]