The Meaning of Life
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008I usually have a difficult time articulating my belief system to others, so I thought I would try to write about it and see if I can sum up the essentials, so without further ado (drum roll in your head) here it is….(dramatic pause):
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Step 0.5: Shift your Attitude Towards Money: Where do you seek Happiness?
Saturday, January 12th, 2008In my post “Change the way you think about money”, I discussed the I think about money. To sum up, when I was younger I thought that buying things would make me happy or somehow change my life or make me a better person. I soon learned that for me, this was not the case. I would buy the things that I desired or just spend money out on town eating and drinking and perhaps trying to impress people. I learned that the things that I brought home didn’t not change me, my life, or make me more or less happy.
Relax! There is nothing to fear.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Fear is all around us. Everyday, it seems there is something new to fear. I’m here to tell you that there is nothing to fear, so you can relax.
First, I don’t know anything, this is just what I believe, so you have to make up your own mind whether to choose fear or its opposite [...]
Moments of Sublime Perfection. Evidence that we all create our own reality.
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008I saw this clip last night on TV on New Year’s with friends. It is Tiger Woods chipping in The Master’s in 2005. Please check out this video (it is a rather long clip, worth it, but you can fast forward to last 30 seconds or so to get the gist of the [...]
Guest Post: Festival of Frugality #106 - Happy New Year Edition
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Happy New year Frugality Tips.
Yayoi and I are NOT cheap!! We are frugal. It is a subtle, yet important difference.
Pinyo from www.moolanomy.com hosts The “Festival of Frugality” Blog Carnival. I submitted one of my posts to the festival (http://www.yoopersmith.com/archives/17) and Pinyo selected it for inclusion in the Festival. [...]
Step 0: What do you think about money?
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007I have an admission. I am the “spender” in my family. Before I married my AWESOME wife Yayoi, I had wracked up well over $10k of credit card debt. Wait a second, let me write that again and put all the zeros behind to get the message through: OVER $10,000!! And what were the life [...]
YooperSmith “I know nothing” disclaimer.
Sunday, December 16th, 2007YooperSmith only knows one thing: I know nothing. So, everything I write, is what I currently think/believe is as true as things get on earth for me. Everything that I think/believe is subject to change without notice.
How to Meditate the YooperSmith way
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Meditation is very important to me. I meditate one way or another practically everyday. To me, meditation is a very easy because I have been praticing since 2004. The good news is you can learn how to mediatate rather quickly and the more you practice, the easier it gets.
(Part of) Meditation, Yoga & Spiritual Growth [...]
Dreams are great, when they lead you to ACTION!
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Today I took some very fun ACTIONS:
Paid about $512 to start YooperSmith.com, LLC.
Signed up for Google AdSense
Added 1 ad unit to my Home page
Added a google search to my Home page.
I did most of these things WHILE watching the packer game, wearing shorts and slippers.
Oh yeah, I want my webpage to provide [...]
Update: The world is just fine.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007Does the world need to be saved? Nope. It is just as it supposed to be.
I believe that regardless of what happens during my life on earth as a human, I will continue to be. My current goal is to make my life more happy for me and to help those [...]