Jack Lalanne - Unhappy people - Are you one of those?

[Les Grossman]

A wise man once told me that money doesn't necessarily make you happy, but it does make life a whole lot easier.

Money doesn't buy happiness.....it buys the things that make you happy.

    

[sync pulse]

I have totally lost my ability to be happy ever since:

• 1. Mom's health began it's final decline.
• 2. Laid off from a job I really liked.
• 3. A friend screwing me out of 15 thousand dollars.
• 4. The losses I incurred because I had to cash out investments early in order to keep up the payments to keep mom in assisted living.
• 5. Having to put the last months of Mom's assisted living on a credit card (with credit card interest rates).
• 6. Working like a Trojan to pay off said debts and not making any headway...

...so I would say that due to 1,2,3,4,5,6...I have lost the ability to be happy.

[The Ugly]

I have totally lost my ability to be happy ever since:

• 1. Mom's health began it's final decline.
• 2. Laid off from a job I really liked.
• 3. A friend screwing me out of 15 thousand dollars.
• 4. The losses I incurred because I had to cash out investments early in order to keep up the payments to keep mom in assisted living.
• 5. Having to put the last months of Mom's assisted living on a credit card (with credit card interest rates).
• 6. Working like a Trojan to pay off said debts and not making any headway...

...so I would say that due to 1,2,3,4,5,6...I have lost the ability to be happy.

That's rough, man, sorry. Maybe in time?

[Mr Nobody]

I have totally lost my ability to be happy ever since:

• 1. Mom's health began it's final decline.
• 2. Laid off from a job I really liked.
• 3. A friend screwing me out of 15 thousand dollars.
• 4. The losses I incurred because I had to cash out investments early in order to keep up the payments to keep mom in assisted living.
• 5. Having to put the last months of Mom's assisted living on a credit card (with credit card interest rates).
• 6. Working like a Trojan to pay off said debts and not making any headway...

...so I would say that due to 1,2,3,4,5,6...I have lost the ability to be happy.

Sorry to hear this dude, not much you can do but try and survive until 2012 which = the end.

[Benito Mutumbo]

I have totally lost my ability to be happy ever since:

• 1. Mom's health began it's final decline.
• 2. Laid off from a job I really liked.
• 3. A friend screwing me out of 15 thousand dollars.
• 4. The losses I incurred because I had to cash out investments early in order to keep up the payments to keep mom in assisted living.
• 5. Having to put the last months of Mom's assisted living on a credit card (with credit card interest rates).
• 6. Working like a Trojan to pay off said debts and not making any headway...

...so I would say that due to 1,2,3,4,5,6...I have lost the ability to be happy.

No worries, friend. Planet Nibiru will save you.

[Lundgren]

Meh happiness is a stupid fucking concept. There is no such thing.

The aim is to be content and involved in your life.

Some people are content and not involved(lazy fattys)
Some are involved but are fucking miserable(wannabes)

Some should be content, but just don`t understand that life is pretty boring.Or that money is a shit way to entertain yourself.


The only kind of people that really got problems are those who cannot afford to be content, due to the lack of security in their lives(not just money but that is a factor)

[The Abdominal Snoman]

The problem with life is we believe that problems exist

[ToxicAvenger]

I have totally lost my ability to be happy ever since:

• 1. Mom's health began it's final decline.
• 2. Laid off from a job I really liked.
• 3. A friend screwing me out of 15 thousand dollars.
• 4. The losses I incurred because I had to cash out investments early in order to keep up the payments to keep mom in assisted living.
• 5. Having to put the last months of Mom's assisted living on a credit card (with credit card interest rates).
• 6. Working like a Trojan to pay off said debts and not making any headway...

...so I would say that due to 1,2,3,4,5,6...I have lost the ability to be happy.

did ANYONE read what i wrote on the previous page??
expecting to be constantly happy is JUST PLAIN UNREALISTIC...unless you r on drugs...prescription or otherwise...

for fucks sake..happiness is earned..NO ONE is supposed to be constantly happy...

do ya all actually buy into that hollywood bullcrap so expect to be happy constantly???


99.999%  of the world is not happy ALL the time....you earn it...and feel occasional happy moments...and are grateful for it....

99.99% of the the time i'm neither happy nor sad....i'm buzy...i guess...content is good enough for me  

[myt1]

I've watched a ton of videos on ted.com about happiness, and I'll save everyone here the hours and just summarize

1. Devote yourself to something larger than yourself (this can take many forms, feeling part of a group (military, church, family, marriage, studies, work, helping others, etc))
2. Accept whatever comes your way (Einstein said "happiness isn't having what you want, it's wanting what you have") (Also a Dan Gilbert talk on ted.com that goes into this more)
3. Basic needs met (Maslow's hierarchy of needs basically, which goes back to the 60,000 a year)

Give me some background on this ted.com thing.  Site looks like a big mess, so can you sum up what it's all about.  

[Lundgren]

did ANYONE read what i wrote on the previous page??
expecting to be constantly happy is JUST PLAIN UNREALISTIC...unless you r on drugs...prescription or otherwise...

for fucks sake..happiness is earned..NO ONE is supposed to be constantly happy...

do ya all actually buy into that hollywood bullcrap so expect to be happy constantly???


99.999%  of the world is not happy ALL the time....you earn it...and feel occasional happy moments...and are grateful for it....

99.99% of the the time i'm neither happy nor sad....i'm buzy...i guess...content is good enough for me 

Says the rich kid. Whatever dude you know nothing of that situation. You read like a bad novel, same obsessive bullshit, that makes no fucking sense in reality.

[ToxicAvenger]

Says the rich kid. Whatever dude you know nothing of that situation. You read like a bad novel, same obsessive bullshit, that makes no fucking sense in reality.

right....go on continuing to be unhappy...and believing that thats normal...

cause THAT makes much more sense 

[Mr. Magoo]

Give me some background on this ted.com thing.  Site looks like a big mess, so can you sum up what it's all about.  

richest people in world get together once a year and pay the smartest people in the world to come and give talks about their field (they also pay the best violin players and best artists, etc to come and do whatever they're good at doing). Each person has only 20 minutes to give their talk or do whatever they're good at doing (some go over this time a little, some go under, etc). I usually just find a video I haven't seen and watch it while I eat because it takes me about 30 minutes to eat a meal.

Also, other places in the world to do their own "ted" thing each year so there are many ted conferences held each year now at different places

The best way to navigate the site is to go to the "tags" link and click on whatever field you're interested in. For example "God" or "Christianity" or "Philosophy" or "Psychology" and you can watch talks given by people in the past years in these fields.

It's a great site and you learn some very interesting things. I hope you spend some time on it. I hope this helps.

http://www.ted.com/talks/tags

[Flexb]

This is why more and more people are losing the battle with drug addiction

[myt1]

richest people in world get together once a year and pay the smartest people in the world to come and give talks about their field (they also pay the best violin players and best artists, etc to come and do whatever they're good at doing). Each person has only 20 minutes to give their talk or do whatever they're good at doing (some go over this time a little, some go under, etc). I usually just find a video I haven't seen and watch it while I eat because it takes me about 30 minutes to eat a meal.

Also, other places in the world to do their own "ted" thing each year so there are many ted conferences held each year now at different places

The best way to navigate the site is to go to the "tags" link and click on whatever field you're interested in. For example "God" or "Christianity" or "Philosophy" or "Psychology" and you can watch talks given by people in the past years in these fields.

It's a great site and you learn some very interesting things. I hope you spend some time on it. I hope this helps.

http://www.ted.com/talks/tags

Thank you for the background and advice on how to find my way around on the site.  I've been starting to read about the Law of Attraction, and NLP so your post kind rang familiar with that stuff.  The site sounds like a very positive one, and I will be checking it out for sure.

Thanks Magoo 

[dyslexic]

none of your fucking business fruitdick

Good answer. Do I know you, or do you just type stupid?

[dyslexic]

I feel pretty. 

Do you sing like Jack Nicholson and Adam Sandler?

[wavelength]

you aren't constantly supposed to be happy

actually you are

[Parker]

This is why more and more people are losing the battle with drug addiction

Dr. Gabor Mate
On stress (and addiction)
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/12/24/dr_gabor_mat_on_the_stress

And on bullying
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/24/dr_gabor_mat_on_adhd_bullying

[Ron]

Good advice from Jack - find the little things that make you happy.       And it isn't money all the time - friends, satisfaction, family count way more

[epic_alien]

I have totally lost my ability to be happy ever since:

• 1. Mom's health began it's final decline.
• 2. Laid off from a job I really liked.
• 3. A friend screwing me out of 15 thousand dollars.
• 4. The losses I incurred because I had to cash out investments early in order to keep up the payments to keep mom in assisted living.
• 5. Having to put the last months of Mom's assisted living on a credit card (with credit card interest rates).
• 6. Working like a Trojan to pay off said debts and not making any headway...

...so I would say that due to 1,2,3,4,5,6...I have lost the ability to be happy.

1- file bankruptcy
2- commit a crime
3 sit in jail for a year with room and board for free
4 watch cable tv, write, exercise, get your head clear
5 get out and start with new outlook on life

[dyslexic]

I think it was the great Beavis and Butthead who said: If nothing ever sucked, how would you know what was cool?


You gotta have one to offset the other.