I'm feeling much better about things these days. It took quite a long time. It took several years just to find out that it was something learnable.

          The noted author, lecturer and sales expert, Zig Zigler, once drew a comparison between the human mind and a field which has just been plowed. Ideas are like "seeds". Plant good seed and you harvest a good crop. Plant bad ones and your field is a bunch of troublesome weeds.

          I'm Feelbetterman. I collect "seeds". My seeds are "feel better" ideas. The best ones are "perrenials". They keep coming up every year and you don't have to re-plant them. Sharing them through my articles has the advantage of making them clearer to me and tends to keep me from going out and boring the hell out of people with them.

         Good "feel better" ideas have one thing in common: they help us to develop a certain degree of immunity to the "ups and downs" of life. When we start realizing that we are personally responsible for how we feel about things we learn how to start living and stop "stressing out".

        Stress kills and it will get you a lot quicker than booze and cigarettes. I've known this for quite a while. How do you think I got to be 106?