the ecology of happiness
Steps
Simple Steps, But Lifestyle Changes
Changing one’s life, caring better for one’s health… it all seems so hard, in such need of radical cuts. Selling all your stuff, moving to an exotic country and living off online enterprise, that seems just about enough to change things around – but who could do that?
The Power of What You Got
We’ve all been noticing that the consumer society is based on debt, it seems – and with fashion and electronic gadgets, it’s become ever more based on unhappiness with old things. We tend to get used to what we have very quickly, anyways, but “modern” things also tend to be made to become obsolete. Meanwhile, we forget [...]
Stuff, and how to successfully sort it out
We somehow know we are drowning in junk, storage has become big business, you can get yourself a good brimstone-and-fire preaching about your wasteful ways and how they cost the Earth – but how do you manage a way forward? Between simply giving up on buying and having – “no, thank you—but if you want [...]
Steps to Happiness
Simple things – like the things that make happy – can be the hardest. Some amazing goal can, of course, also demotivate you, make you think that you’ll never manage. As a personal goal, though, it should be motivational – and maybe, if you are the right kind of person for that, it’s even a matter [...]
