The Expressive Press

10/23/2022

Knowing your life’s purpose(s) keeps you on the track that you’ve decided is best for you. It shapes your decisions and prevents you from irrelevant, irritating, and costly excursions that tend to hinder reaching your goals.

1. Count your blessings; many of us can’t come up with one great idea, aka an idea that improves our lives in dramatic ways.

10/20/2022

She fell madly in love with me, or at least she said she did. I certainly fell for her, and, if you could see and talk to her you would know why. On the other hand, if you could see and talk to me …

She fell madly in love with me, or at least she said she did. I certainly fell for her, and, if you could see and talk to her you would…

10/14/2022

The most miserable people I know can’t wait to retire, aka not work, and “enjoy themselves”. When I ask why, they point to an overbearing boss and workload, a skewed and unfair salary policy, and that elusive bit of corporate chicanery ‘office politics’ that they are tired of playing. Then I ask to explain ‘enjoy themselves’ and they hem and haw and end up saying ‘don’t worry, I can find a lot to do that’s more enjoyable than working’.

The most miserable people I know can’t wait to retire, aka not work, and “enjoy themselves”. When I ask why, they point to an overbearing…

10/07/2022

To the big three no-nos of politics, religion, and s*x, your income and net worth, plans to retire, anything negative about management and your peers (a peer may be your boss someday), and how much you hate your job (nobody loves a grouch). All can come back and bite in ways that could cost you your job.

To the big three no-nos of politics, religion, and s*x, your income and net worth, plans to retire, anything negative about management and…

08/19/2022

Nurture your health, wealth, and relationships. All become more precious as we age, and all combine synergistically to create that elusive feeling we call happiness.

Nurture your health, wealth, and relationships. All become more precious as we age, and all combine synergistically to create that elusive…

08/14/2022

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

A psychologist/friend is fond of saying that “circumstances create decisions”. I remind her often that the reverse is as true: that…

08/11/2022

A psychiatrist friend notes that nothing except s*x is so good for you psychically and physically as good wine, and a friend/entrepreneur extracts a bottle just about every day from his collection of more than a thousand. Is he the ultimate wacko?

Martinis.

08/07/2022

Happiness is akin to po*******hy: we know it when we see it, feel it, think it. It is a mystery akin to religion. Happiness is an industry with sellers and buyers.

Many of our great thinkers say so. Aristotle, for example, said that happiness is the ultimate goal of human life and it is attainable for…

08/05/2022

“ it’s never too early to be what you might become”

It depends.

08/03/2022

Not a ‘bad thing” at all. It’s terrible, so get up and smell the roses and quit breathing my air, first by studying the language. You do…

07/31/2022

If a lover broke your heart, find another, better lover and flaunt him/her/it.

1. Forget revenge, think forgiveness: Some smart guy got it right by advising that by seeking revenge you dig two graves, yours and theirs…

07/29/2022

You are the only person who can decide if you do, can, or want to meet those needs.

You fail. Socially, fiscally, and physically. Sorry.