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Do You Need to Improve Your Life?
Assuming that you don’t subscribe to fatalism and you don’t already have a perfect life, you’ll need to try to help yourself by doing something to Improve Your Life. What’s something you can do? See the About Life Ideals page to get some perspective on things.
Read MoreWhat does an Ideal Life Look Like?
As soon as you were born, you started to formulate an idea of what your perfect or ideal life would look like. Let’s take a look at what Mark Twain decided would be his ideal life:
Read MoreWhat Does an Ideal Marriage Look Like?
Marriage is an exclusive, mutually supportive, loving relationship between two individuals. For it to work well and last a long time, both people need to be willing to contribute over 50% to make it work. Yes, I know that that’s more than 100%, but the point is that each partner needs to be ready and…
Read MoreWhat does an Ideal Childhood Look Like?
As I said on the About this Website page, I had an ideal childhood with loving parents and good friends to play with. Furthermore, I never lacked for food or good educational opportunities. Unfortunately, many, many children in our world lack one or more of these elements of an ideal life. Can you do anything…
Read MoreWhat Does an Ideal Family Look Like?
Ideally, children will grow up in a stable, loving environment with a pair of loving parents. Unfortunately, with the 50% divorce rate in this country, this is often not the case. Even when children do have two loving parents, there are certain rights and privileges that they deserve. For example, when they are given something…
Read MoreWhat Does an Ideal Education Look Like?
There are many different systems of schooling throughout the world. Some are more “successful” than others but unfortunately, some of them take a heavy toll on the mental health of the student. In Japan, for example, one’s whole future career success depends on the results of their test scores. Those who don’t perform well on…
Read MoreWhat Does an Ideal Government Look Like?
An ideal government should provide a safe stable environment for all its citizens where they can freely exchange value for value and no one gets taken undue advantage of. The government of a nation is akin to the parents of a family. It provides protection and stability for the citizens to get on with it…
Read MoreWhat Does an Ideal Society Look Like?
In an ideal society, everyone contributes and everyone eats. This was the operating principle of a very successful, stable and long-lived Carribean culture of the past. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by the white men who come to bring them “civilization.” Civilizations and societies of the past have always contained the seeds of their own destruction…
Read MoreWhat Does an Ideal World Look Like?
An ideal world is something we are still striving for. It is definitely a “work in progress.” Since there is no world government to keep the peace and prevent the insanity of war, peaceful stability still requires alliances of the “good guys” to keep the “takers” under control by various threats of one kind or…
Read MoreWhat Can You Do to Help the World Situation?
There is no shortage of problems in the world. So, it’s going to take a shoulder to shoulder effort to put things right. Don’t succumb to the idea that because the task is so immense nothing can be done about it. Just remember, the way to eat an elephant is “one bite at a time.”…
Read MoreWealth Attainment
Are the super-rich really happy? Just consider the prevalence of drug and alcohol abuse among the wealthy. Money doesn’t bring them happiness; they resort to all sorts of excesses in a futile and often fatal attempt to find happiness. The media, and society as a whole, holds up wealth attainment as some sort of “holy…
Read MoreMaterialism
There seems to be a big dichotomy in our society between materialism and spiritualism. We seem to be obsessed with acquiring a lot of “stuff” in order to make ourselves happy. Just think of the buying frenzy that happens every year at Christmas! Another illustration of this is the only seemingly facetious remark, “He who…
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