Money Certainly CAN Buy You Happiness

Money Certainly CAN Buy You Happiness

“Eat like a bird” is not an indication of light eating. Small birds eat about 30% of their body weight daily on average. That’s like you (kindly) downing about 50 to 70 pounds of food each day (which, in my occasional view, some people may be actually doing). When you “eat like a bird” you’re a trencherman, a gourmand.

We have quite a few sayings that guide us onto the wrong road, sort of like a highway sign that points in the wrong direction, so instead of pulling up at the Four Seasons you’re locking yourself in your car at some dive bar. If you’ve “slept like a baby” then you had a pretty awful night. “If you work a job you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” Tell that to the horribly underpaid nurses, EMTs, and teachers. “Flattery will get you nowhere.” If you want a reporters attention, tell the reporters you read their latest article and it’s brilliant.

So the next time you allow yourself to fall for, “The customer is always right,” or “No one is around during the holidays/summer,” or “Good things come to those who wait,” you may want to consider a different career, or to stop listening to nonsense created by unsuccessful people who had a lot of time on their hands to create signs pointing in the wrong direction.