My arse!

image: mr ruffles 

What everyone wants from life is continued and genuine happiness - Baruch Spinoza 

Someone asked me, reasonably so, why I thought I was singularly and uniquely qualified to get on my soapbox about happiness. Have you ever been asked a question that resonates with you? One that seems to burrow beneath the subcutaneous layers of your awareness?

This one did it for me. I had a ‘who the hell do I think I am?’ moment. I suppose I was presented with two options at that point. Throw in the towel and shuffle off to hide under a rock or push on and persist.

I don’t think I am singularly and uniquely qualified to wax lyrical any more than the next person. I do consider myself well placed to be a pundit on the game of life having met with both triumph and disaster, and having been kicked in the teeth and catapulted to the lofty heights in my time thus far. I have little doubt that the continued unfolding of my life’s odyssey will present more ignominy, tragedy, magic, fulfilment and dynamic growth as it proceeds.

I came up with a category called ‘Biog. stuff’ which is short for biographical stuff - you see, always thinking, always planning (lol). An opportunity for me to substantiate my position via some of the narrative of my life. More than anything I want to offer something to those who feel at times a little overwhelmed or perhaps under-qualified to tackle those obstacles that they find in their path.

The Mechanics of Happiness, it’s actually a series of six books that I’ve written, came about as I pondered the fundamental nature of what we want. I saw that people want happiness; not a glitzy, sugar coated fantasy but sustained, deep and meaningful happiness. A quality that is unique to each individual because of the unique way in which we are all assembled.

I saw also that there are many barriers to achieving happiness that interfere with the smooth evolution of our own being, often in the form of external factors that we had little or nothing to do with that become like grit in our character  development. In the blog I tend to keep my powder dry, when I master the technology I will publish some book extracts here, and some people have reflected to me that they haven’t got a clue what this blog is about but find it nevertheless interesting or compelling. It’s all good. It’s all ingredients that go into the pot.

Look out for postings or pages marked ‘Biog. stuff’, keep the feedback coming. I find it extraordinary when people comment in whatever way. And to those of you who’ve said you find me a little daunting, don’t make me laugh, I’m just a kid who went on a few dates with the English language and found I was in love with her. To paraphrase Jim Royle, ’Daunting? My arse!’