talking2myself

Living Well vs. Doing Well

“This notion — that material investment is somehow more important to life than personal investment — is exactly what leads so many of us to believe we could never afford to [insert whatever it is you personally want to do]” with apologies to Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding,  for paraphrasing.

One of my regular readers has made the mistaken assumption that this blog is just an online log of my ramblings with no real sense and purpose.  I wonder how many others miss the thread of what I am trying to do here.  This blog is about living well as opposed to doing well.  I am trying to use my personal experiences and thoughts to determine what it is that we, humans, need to do to feel content.  I hesitate to use the word happiness has been hijacked by those who wish to jump on the merry go round that is doing well.

The 4 facets that I believe are important to getting a sense of balance in life are the subjects I wish to write about in this blog – the emotional, the mental, the spiritual and the physical aspects and that, fortunately/unfortunately, does cover a wide range of human activity from alcohol and nicotine dependence and addiction, through to diet and exercise and the environment in which one lives as I did in the last post.  I wish to avoid the ‘quote a minute’ do well focused self help hype and try to keep up to date with genetic and anthropological news to inform my knowledge of what makes us human.  I hope as I develop the site to encourage feedback from my readers so we can in a way, grow together.

The quote from the first paragraph of this post is from this article ‘The Difference: Living Well vs. Doing Well’  and relates to vagabonding but you could replace vagabonding with your own personal objective and it will make just as much sense.  Read it, please.

May you find the balance.