increasing sledding pleasures
We arrived last Sunday in Wisconsin and I am still fighting with my jetlag and the winter temperatures – felt as unusually mild by the locals. My kids are already enjoying every day: they build snow fortresses and fight snowball wars and slide down the slope on plastic sleds without having problems with sitting the next day.
My kids enjoyed the plastic sleds borrowed from their new friends, too, but I felt every single bump as an unfriendly offense on my sitting capacity. On my suggestion we bought yesterday an “old” sled in an antique shop, made of wood and metal in the US and we will test it today. I hope it will act like an Epicurean device helping increase the pleasure of sledding while decreasing the pain in butt.
Epicurean Happiness Guidance – for some: a cold lima bean
I have sent my Epicurean Happiness Guidance “From Pain to Pleasure: The Proven Pathway to Happiness” to 26 people I know and appreciate FREE for their personal usage only. I told them that I would be very glad if they could give me some feedback about how they liked it and whether it was useful for them. Six of them thanked for it. 20 of them ignored it.
Mentioning this to a friend of mine he reminded me that people never value what they don’t pay for. Besides, these people were not a targeted audience, because they were not acutely in pain.
In the words of J.D. Salinger I must have acted “in the spirit of Matthew Salinger, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean” when they were satiated.
He asked me whether I learned my lesson and I am still wondering what lesson.
My HappinessGuidance: “From Pain to Pleasure: The Proven Pathway to Happiness”
It seems that I have managed to make my report on the devastating effects of stress on our health and happiness technically accessible. As soon as my friend and webmaster will finish his nostalgia tour in Europe he will make it possible to order my book.
My HappinessGuidance “From Pain to Pleasure: The Proven Pathway to Happiness” will take you on a journey like no other. It will grab your hand and won’t let go until you:
- discover the links between your desires, needs, attitudes and values
- see the incongruities in your daily life
- plan your individual pathway from pain to stress-FREEDOM
- achieve harmonious relationships with friends and family
- enjoy peace, tranquility and serenity
- achieve clarity about your future
my professional amateurism
For my professional amateurism I use the definitions of:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amateur
amateur
-noun
| 1. | a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons. |
| 2. | an athlete who has never competed for payment or for a monetary prize. |
| 3. | a person inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity: Hunting lions is not for amateurs. |
| 4. | a person who admires something; devotee; fan: an amateur of the cinema. |
professional
| 1. | following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder. |
| 2. | of, pertaining to, or connected with a profession: professional studies. |
| 3. | appropriate to a profession: professional objectivity. |
| 4. | engaged in one of the learned professions: A lawyer is a professional person. |
| 5. | following as a business an occupation ordinarily engaged in as a pastime: a professional golfer. |
| 6. | making a business or constant practice of something not properly to be regarded as a business: “A salesman,” he said, “is a professional optimist.” |
| 7. | undertaken or engaged in as a means of livelihood or for gain: professional baseball. |
| 8. | of or for a professional person or his or her place of business or work: a professional apartment; professional equipment. |
| 9. | done by a professional; expert: professional car repairs. |
Using “amateur” in its sense #1 and “professional” in its sense # 5 above I should say that being a dedicated stressFREEDOMguide is being a professional amateur: I’m doing it for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons. following as a business an occupation ordinarily engaged in as a pastime, likea professional golfer.
Or using the original meaning of the root words: (profitērī to declare publicly, and amātor lover, equiv. to amā- (s. of amāre to love) + -tor ) I openly declare that I love to do what I’m doing: get people stress-FREE.
My book “From Pain to Pleasure: The Proven Pathway to Happiness”
My Epicurean Happiness Guidance “From Pain to Pleasure: The Proven Pathway to Happiness” is finished and the book cover is being designed. I hope to be able to make it technically available for stress-FREEDOM and happiness seekers soon.
From Pain to Pleasure: The Proven Pathway to Happiness will take them on a journey like no other: Its road is paved with solid research, yet its scientific foundation is generously sprinkled with song lyrics, witticisms and words by scholars, philosophers and writers, refreshing graphics and photography, real-life examples, a few well-chosen jokes and a smidgeon of irreverence.
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