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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. -- Oprah Winfrey
I spend many hours during my pre-teenage days flicking through atlases and reading any copy of National Geographic I could lay my hands on, imaging faraway places and adventures on foreign shores. The ...
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Monday, November 29th, 2010
ONS is developing new measures of national well-being. The aim is that these new measures will cover the quality of life of people in the UK, environmental and sustainability issues, as well as the economic performance of the country.
To develop better measures of the nation’s well-being we want to ...
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Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
In 1972, Bhutan’s king proclaimed that “Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product.” Bhutan, one of the poorest nations led the world to seriously consider measuring the happiness of its citizens as opposed to how much money they generated. Every year since then, the Prime Minister reports ...
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Friday, November 12th, 2010
It would be nice to report to you that I am following my own advice in attempting to reach a state of some contentment but it is more of a case of ‘do as i say not as i do’. It is not to say that some half-hearted attempts have ...
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010
Here in the UK, we are starting to feel the heat. Our fairly new Government is hell bent on cutting the county’s deficit and at the same times use the relative compliance of the population to achieve something the Conservatives have always advocated –the destruction of the social service structure. ...
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Wednesday, October 20th, 2010
Asked how happy are you, if you are a typical Ugandan, you would most likely say very happy. According to a survey on the social, political, economic, and cultural opinions by Synovate Pan Africa Uganda, a market research organization, up to 61 percent of Ugandans are either happy or very ...
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
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I cannot believe that it is nearly a month since I posted here - where has the time gone? Maybe my project is turning into an obsession. Anyway, here goes.
Last week, I went to visit my sister in France and with the ...
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Saturday, September 18th, 2010
I want to let you in on something. My new project that has been keeping me from posting here as often as I should and want is called 'Mixed In Different Shades' and is about the history of inter-cultural relationships and mixed heritage people around the world. How are these ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
If you are a consumer of the countless American success formulas, you will know that the vast majority will educate you to ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
According to Wikipedia, "although the human brain represents only 2% of the body weight, it receives 15% of the cardiac output, 20% of total body oxygen consumption, and 25% of total body glucose utilisation." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain#Brain_energy_consumption). Assuming of course that working the brain, like working the body, ups energy requirement and ...
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
CAN money buy you happiness? The answer, it appears, depends on what you mean by "happiness". High earners are generally more satisfied with their lives, it seems, but a persons day-to-day emotional wellbeing is only influenced by money up to a certain point.
via Money can buy you happiness – up ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. [Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance*]
Yesterday, on my ‘experience’ wanderings (that’s what I like to call them) I happened into a bar where a few, maybe 30 or so, people were learning to ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
“I am available on most weeknights, not degree educated but well versed in matters of politics, economics, religion and the like. Personal disasters like career disappointments and failed romantic encounters can be discussed and I am not too averse to bouncing balls, kicking balls and hitting balls with a bat ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
My 60 year plus mother holds some very set view about certain sections of society that may have some basis in experience but most likely does not. Since she comes for the generation of the great –isms, I assumed that my siblings and I just brushed off these prejudices, sometimes ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Unlike many of my peers, when I was in my middle teenage years, I knew that I wanted to have a family; I wanted to be a father. I was going to find the right woman, get married, have babies and have a good job to support it all. I ...
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