Thought Row Blog — happiness

The Inner Outer Oasis: Our minds are filled with thoughts, it's self-talk. Everyone at some point needs a safe haven to rest. A sanctuary from the overwhelmingly repetitive vagaries that often drain us of happiness and even our energy. Unplug: Easy to say, hard to do. Computers think they're so smart, but they are vulnerable to a reboot or if all else fails you can turn them off and unplug. Your brain is way too smart for that trick. Just when you think you've calmed those racing thoughts down, your brain kicks in a whole new set for you to...

    Hurried and Flurried and Frustrated and Excited?: What about you? No need to guess here. If you're present with any reasonable amount of rational thinking, you will no doubt uncomfortably fit into one or more of those questions. Our cluttered minds: Live as we must in our heads all the time, even when we sleep, thoughts rule. Look for an escape? Well if you think about it you really don't want one. Everything we are and everything we will ever be starts the thoughts in our minds. Our thoughts can get a little jumbled sometimes, and rob you...

  No, You Can’t Make Money On Social Media Anymore: Unless you do what I just did. I started this article with a title that is often referred to as clickbait. If you've read this far, then my title worked. Keeping you interested enough to read on is a bit more challenging. Now what I just did was create some curiosity by that last few words. Are you curious enough to read on? If you've entered this paragraph by reading on, then I know my whole first paragraph did its job. Now comes the hard part in writing. I need...

Me on Writing: I write my way in… and I write my way out, gallivanting all about with pedantic prose. Or at least that's what I would like you and everyone to think. The undercurrent of truth starts with me being saddled with a condition that's not all that uncommon these days. But back when I was in my most informative years, my learning disability was simply diagnosed as "this poor child is dumb." At the time, not too many people were kind enough to use the phrase, "the child has an addled brain." Which I probably would not have...

  The Value of Creative Thinking: "In a most annoying way, a cloud managed to position itself between me and the sun." What could a sentence like this possibly mean? Is it intriguing enough to cause you to think? Or is it just blasé and frivolous? No matter how you interpret that simple sentence, you are drawn in. You want to know exactly what it's bringing forth and what is the story behind it. In a gentle way, it makes you think. I have always been fascinated by this simple direct sentence; "thoughts are things." All on its own, these...