live across the planet in little old Denmark. All I wanna tell you is that you put out some really cool stuff. I like this last one, and have followed that way of life for a long time myself. It does work. Come on don't you guys get it? He's not saying give up and don;t care, he's saying accept what is....it is, what it is .....acceptance is the most pure form of happiness.... one way to manage your expectations is to determine what you want....we follow a plan for school, for buying a car, for reading a book, there is a method we follow, so why don't we plan the most important most obvious readson we are here...which is OUR LIFE! we just randomly blunder through each day without a clear path to get to where we want to go...check out this ebook, designing best year ever http://www.successonlinetools.com/bestye\\... That's a good point you make, however, i don't think that giving up trying to achieve something will mean that you will achieve it. I think the point you really make is that you need to give up caring about things that are unimportant or things that are too unrealistic that you will never achieve (eg. like trying to be perfect); come back down to earth and focus on the more important things in life. Thank you for playing the Devil's advocate against the current trends. I may not agree with all of the items on your lists, but several of