Having enough money can remove worries and stress about money.
The simple act of planning a trip elevates happiness levels.
Not one that will improve your career-related skillset or even boost your life skills, like accounting or car repairs. Take a totally silly class that doesn’t really help any practical area of your life. It could be salsa dancing or paper doll making or sculpting. Anytime you’re in the position of being the student—the learner—you feel young again.
Whether that’s the rooftop bar of a skyscraper hotel, or a park at the top of the city, go to the highest point in your city. Something about being high up there with a view of everything gives you a new perspective on what’s happening internally.
If we didn’t believe that we needed certain things to be valuable, attractive, happy and worthy of love, then our economy would collapse. And it’s okay to enjoy some of the material indulgences out there—you are human, after all, and that means you live in a body that gets to taste good food, enjoy nice […]
There's a lot to be learned from Mary Jane's sometimes dysfunctional life.