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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, February 7th, 2011
Thanks and here we go again. Life has certainly changed for me over the last few months and particularly since my separation. I am currently in the throes of trying not to get buried under the enormity of it all and keep my project – which I also reviewed here ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2010
I have so much going on this holiday season so no updates will be made on this site. Please don't be put off by this, I will be back with a vengeance in the New Year.
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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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Sunday, November 28th, 2010
"The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount ...
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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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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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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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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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Monday, August 2nd, 2010
I am currently working on a new project that is taking up all my writing time. I hope to be re-posting soon.
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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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Friday, July 16th, 2010
We do not need to look for statistics to prove that the rate of marriage breakdowns is growing. Many of us have many have experienced it ourselves or have close family and friends who have and those of us with children will know that a significant proportion of their classmates ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Here is one man's view of how the simple, not necessarily the easy, can make you happy. Though written from the sense of the simple home in the Brazilian favelas compared to the high life in the USA, it is the emphasis on simplicity, difficulty and community that the sense ...
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