You seem to be a very up tight person. Are you unhappy? LOL The hints below will put you on a path to happiness by helping you decompress and become more laid back.
#-------------------------- Larry said: Happiness does not come from possessions, it comes from accomplishment and achievement. #-------------------------- 60 Minutes said: "Well, at least the pressure's off you, you know?" Christensen says. "And if you're doing pretty well and once in awhile there's outstanding, you're very happy about it. But if your starting point is you should be outstanding, that's not good." and: That pressure is a result of high expectations; wanting it all is a bacterium that stays with us from youth to old age - wanting a bigger house, fancier car, more stuff. And when we get more, there's always someone with even more stuff, who's just as unhappy. Some suggest that the unhappiest zip codes in the country are the wealthiest, like the Upper East Side of New York. and; *(CBS) *"The number one predictor of well-being is close friendships and close relationships in general, which includes of course, family relationships. Much better predictor of well-being than affluence is," Ben-Shahar says. Ben-Shahar says Americans could learn a lot about happiness from the Danes. "It is about having realistic expectations. It's about not trying to fit in more than we can handle. We can't handle it all. We can't have it all. But we can have a lot," he says. and; "Well, in order to see myself as a success I would want to be happy and have a lot of time with my family. I think that's very important to me. And the money is not that important," he replied. "It is more about the softer values, such as not being stressed, and feeling passionate about what I'm doing. 'Maybe this job is not gonna pay me a lot of money. But I'm gonna love getting up and doing it every day,'" another said. Asked if one can equate money with happiness, a man told Safer, "No." "If you have a sufficient amount of money, then I don't think it will make you a lot happier to get really rich. And we're already at a good level here in Denmark. So I don't think we'll be happier if we increase our wealth," another remarked. #---------------------- I think the Danish Income Tax system is progressive with the average middle class citizen paying about a 50% rate. Regards, LelandJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> the American middle class is >> gradually disappearing as a very few powerful, super wealthy individual >> drive the remainder of the population into poverty/slavery. Americans >> would probably be mush happier if wealth was more homogeneous. That is >> exactly what the progressive income tax was designed to do. >> > > It looks like you've been drinking CNN coolaid. A shrinking middle class > does not result in the highest number of homeowners ever! > > What your socialistic progressive income tax was designed to do is to reward > failure and remove incentive for success. You propose to totally remove > reward from effort or merit. See how well it worked for the Soviet Union and > what world beaters we have coming from the EU. It's a recipe for equalized > misery. We were promised life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... NOT > HAPPINESS itself! Why should those who accomplish something give up some of > their rewards to those who have sat on the sidelines and done nothing. As a > compassionate society, we need to look after those that cannot work... but > not the rest. If they are unhappy, it is their own doing. > > Should we give all the free stuff to the slugs that they want, they still > will not be happy. Happiness does not come from possessions, it comes from > accomplishment and achievement. > > -- > Larry Miller > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/mixed > text/plain (text body -- kept) > message/rfc822 > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
