Summary: Our topic this week is about buying better. We discuss the processes we use when determining if and what we want to spend our hard earned money on. Donald Thomas Carter Christmas Eve presents opened, Christmas morning presents opened, Just a few hours in and 50% of them are already broken. Darn Chinese and the crappy toys they make! Sun Zsu would be proud of you... you are winning the war and we don´t even know we are losing it, let alone in one. Filson - Might as well have the best! The goods we quote must not be confounded with the cheap and vastly inferior grade with which the market is over-run. Such goods are not only useless for the purpose for which they are intended, but the person wearing them would be better off without them." -- Clinton C. Filson 1914 catalog America is a nation obsessed with finding personal happiness. But the person who sets out to find happiness rarely succeeds. He or she may achieve occasional and temporary satisfaction through financial success or a busy social life, but rarely true happiness. Happiness comes to those people who concentrate on the opposite - who do things for others, who set out to produce beautiful paintings or delicious meals, or who engage in projects that bring beneficial change to the world. Such people not only contribute to a better world as a result but also achieve unexpected happiness. These are the people who move through life with ease, in spite of obstacles and misfortune. Thomas S Cowan, MD (The Fourfold Path to Healing) “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for” -Epicurus Greek Philosopher (341 BC – 270 BC) Insomnia and HSP & introvertedness - This melatonin from Radiant Life I have found to be most helpful. Our Coffee Roaster If This Then That - Brian's geeky website that saves him tons of time So tell us, what would you like to hear in future podcasts and how are you going to be cultivating simple in 2013?
