Happiness – Page 6 – Unbounded Life

It’s a wonderful life

Posted on March 23, 2009March 24, 2009 by Chris Barclay

I recently came across an essay on The Good Life by Jim Rohn, who calls himself “the world’s leading motivational speaker, philosopher and entrepreneur.” I watched some of his videos on YouTube, including one in which he exhorts an audience not to be “broke, stupid and ugly”. Talk about the power of positive thinking! I […]

Dream a little dream

Posted on February 28, 2009March 1, 2009 by Chris Barclay

One day around sunset, Zhuangzi dozed off and dreamed that he became a butterfly. He flapped his wings and sure enough he was a butterfly. What a joyful feeling as he fluttered about, he completely forgot that he was Zhuangzi. Soon though, he wondered if the butterfly was really Zhuangzi who dreamed he was a […]

Finding your hedgehog

Posted on February 15, 2009February 16, 2009 by Chris Barclay

In my recet post, “How to be an expert“, I talked about passion as being key to finding fulfillment in what we do. Yet so often we invest our passion into a hobby, because we can’t fully express it through our work. As hobbies rarely pay for themselves, we learn to live with spending the […]

Suffering in comfort

Posted on January 27, 2009March 21, 2009 by Chris Barclay

UnboundedLife is my exploration of personal freedom, and a key aspect of this is wellness. I like to think about it as freedom to consciously choose and be accountable for the quality of our life. There is so much confusion about wellness in modern society, because it has become a huge industry, and there are […]

No “I” in Thai

Posted on January 21, 2009January 22, 2009 by Chris Barclay

As I pick up bits and pieces of the Thai language each day, I’ve found that the Thai people have a unique way of talking about themselves: they omit the “I” and refer to themselves in the 3rd person. This is the first time I’ve encountered this kind of disassociation in a language and made […]

Dark luminosity

Posted on January 17, 2009September 19, 2009 by Chris Barclay

The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. […]

The Biggest Loser

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Chris Barclay

“Both my wife and daughter think I’m this gigantic loser, and… they’re right. I have lost something. I’m not exactly sure what it is, but I know I didn’t always feel this… sedated. But you know what? It’s never too late to get it back.” — American Beauty by Alan Ball