Always enter the office pool.
Many people put $2 in an office pool each time the lottery rises above a certain number…say $100 million. Then, after many, many months of not winning, they start to…
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Cheer up, it’s Monday!
Moving slow? Feeling snarky? Having trouble getting started? Now that it’s back to “la course de rat,” you may well be cursing what society has labeled the worst day of…
Pain? Illness? Hair loss? Snake oil to the rescue!
Anybody who tries to sell us a quick remedy for obesity, a fountain-of-youth formula, or a miracle cure for back pain is usually called a cheat, a charlatan, or a…
Shake your own hand.
There’s an ancient proverb that states: “If your own house is not in order, how can you possible help another to tidy up theirs?” So before offering a hearty handshake…
Plan an elaborate funeral. For yourself.
News conferences, state dinners, ribbon-cutting, photo ops…political leaders spend an inordinate amount of time stage-managing ceremonies intended to commemorate their successes. Small wonder, since they wouldn’t have ventured into the…
Think irrationally. And often.
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.” – A. Einstein Sure, we all know the classic E=mc2. But did you know Albert worked with with…
Mercury is in retrograde? That’s great news!
It’s been a few weeks since Mercury went retrograde* and things are all out of whack! At least, that’s what the SuperOptimist keeps hearing from many quarters. Meetings cancelled, elevators…
Look outside yourself.
According to the market research group Nielsen, American adults now spend more than 11 hours per day watching, reading, listening to or simply interacting with media. 11 hours! That leaves…
Stop and smell everything.
As America continues to lead the world in racing from place to place, grasping at riches and attempting to stay busy for fear of missing out (on what, we’re not…
This could be the day you meet someone new.
That’s what happened to a young man named Paul McCartney on this day in 1957. A friend of his from the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys invited him to…