Martha-Stewartesque tip.
3 years ago
10. Don’t remove ice cubes from ice cube tray with wet fingers. This leads to torn off patches of skin in your guests drinks!
(Ouch and eeew.)
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Present moment vs long-term satisfaction.
3 years ago
7. Part of growing up is learning that thinking only about immediate gratification results in less happiness.
8. The whole Buddhist Middle Path, the path of moderation thing, sounds pedestrian and unimaginative, but in the end it is a hoot because you get to do so much and enjoy it more. Interestingly, excess gets old fast. Translation: a daily square of high quality dark chocolate is actually good for you.
9. Not brushing the cat leads to giant tumbleweeds of fur rolling down the hallway.
6. NEVER vacuum the cat hair out of your USB port while the computer is on. Don’t ask me to explain the science, but this actually sucks sparks of electricity out of your port. This can’t be a good thing. For you, for the computer…
...I think it would have been more useful to learn some basic life lessons like:
1. How to manage my money (i.e.: credit cards are not free money—you have to pay it off with interest!)
2. Denial changes nothing and hurts worse in the end.
3. Liking yourself makes you happier.
4. Nobody and nothing is perfect. It’s distance, bullshit, airbrushing or projection on your part. (Unless your talking about a perfect moment, response, kiss, day, color, or something like that!)
5. Don’t turn your walkman (CD player, MP3 player, etc.) up too loud or you will lose the ability to hear certain frequencies and walk around the rest of your life saying “What?” and explaining that it’s not volume but frequency that matters and no one will ever understand what the hell you are talking about.
Feel free to add to this list!
