Well, we can’t get away from the basic truth that things are always changing. Sure, some things remain the same, and this change is very limited. It’s within certain patterns, and it’s not just every day is completely different and complete chaos. But at the same time, we have something new with every day. Something […]

Here I am, a guy sitting in his living room, talking about life. And I don’t have any professional qualifications. I don’t have any professional entertaining skills. I just have a perspective that I feel like sharing, just for anybody who might want to listen, might be interested in these topics, and might find value

Subtractive happiness. Once again it comes back to the topic of happiness, what it means to be happy, content, satisfied, pleased. The feeling that life is good, happy to live my life. We all want this feeling. And sometimes it feels like it’s a chase after happiness. It’s a hunt. We feel good sometimes, and

Today is video #367. This is the one-year anniversary for me publishing a video every day. So in this video, I’ll talk about what that has been like, for any of you who might be interested in trying something like this yourself. It started with this idea that I would publish a video a day

Confidence. The word, the origin of the word, literally means “with faith” or “with trust”, “being with faith”, “being with trust”. And I like imagining this word with that in mind, as a way of really picturing the essence of what this feeling is about. Feeling confident in somebody means that you can feel trust.

We hear about the golden rule. We’ve all heard this. “Treat others the way that you would like to be treated.” And this can be kind of a remedy against selfishness. But it seems like it can also be taken in the other direction, an inverse of the golden rule: “Treat yourself the way you

Just as every season through the year has its own flavour, every hour of the day has its own flavour. And just like part of appreciating every day, appreciating every moment, and celebrating the unique flavour of each moment, I find it helps to bring out that feeling of aliveness. So for the day, of

Rhythms of time. These last two series are about celebrating each moment of life. And of course, each moment has its own flavour, and no moment is ever really repeated, but the cycles of the year and the cycle of the day provide us with these sort of recurring flavours of moments. And I find

Well, the sun is still shining out there, there’s still leaves on the trees, and the air is still not too cold, but it’s now the fall equinox, the end of summer, the beginning of fall. This time of year, we can really feel that this is the time to pass into the dark side

COVID quarantine chronicles. Lockdown life. This is a series that I was never expecting to make. […] Some of the themes that I pull out of this: one is this idea of isolation, this dystopian isolation. Even in the best of times, in ordinary times, there’s so much isolation in the modern world. Everybody is