Walk Away from the TV!
Finding the satisfaction of enough is a journey. As we learn to be more financially stable and wiggle out of the binds of consumerism, we also learn to be happy and satisfied from other avenues. However, there are a number of beliefs and habits that we need to wean ourselves off of as we take our journey to becoming a postconsumer. One of these steps involves learning to walk away from the [...]
Quote of the Week: On Chasing Happiness
At Postconsumers, we often use the idea of happiness and satisfaction interchangeably. Many of those to whom we reach out to hopefully assist are chasing the idea of satisfaction through consumerism and misplaced priorities so we found this week’s quote of the week particularly inspiring. “Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.” Bertolt Brecht. We think that this quote is so very true. Even perusing the [...]
Increase Satisfaction: Reduce Stress
The title of this blog post, Increase Satisfaction: Reduce Stress, is getting close to the core value at the bottom of the postconsumers’ mission. After all, postconsumers really wants its adopters to lead happy, healthy lives. It’s nearly impossible to lead a happy, healthy life if you’re stressed most of the time! What are the primary causes of stress in your life? Chances are very high that they either have to do [...]
Postconsumers Trumps Slick Oil
By Michael Beck Consumerism. We cannot escape the word’s origin in the Latin consumere, to devour. Nor should we ignore that before conspicuous consumption morphed into the highest form of the American Dream, ‘consumption’ meant incurable tuberculosis, devouring the breath of life. Now, in its modern meaning it’s consuming the breath of life of the planet itself. The oceans, along with the tropical rainforests, serve as the Earth’s lungs, absorbing C02 and emitting [...]
Satisfaction Tip: Make a Cookbook
Not all of us love to cook, but for those of us who do, it’s a great way to find the satisfaction of enough with the added bonus of a delicious meal or baked goods at the end of it! We have another suggestion for an activity that will help you find the satisfaction of enough and give you a great end product as well. Make a cookbook! We’re not necessarily suggesting [...]
Quote of the Week: The Value of the Single Minute
Finding the satisfaction of enough is no different than the idea of learning to lift weights. First you begin to do it in small amounts, and as you become better at it, the amount increases. So, for example, when you begin lifting weights, you may start with simply five pound weights. However, after you’ve gained strength you’ll soon be lifting fifty pound weights. Okay! Maybe not fifty pound weights, but you see [...]
We get letters…..
From Postconsumer Lori H: I was delighted to stumble upon your website. I am a single mom of a nine year old son, making less than $25,000/year. I would like to share with you some of my strategies and lifestyle tips. I have access to the internet at my place of employment but not in my home. We have a computer that was given to us, all our games were purchased either at [...]
What is the Opposite of Stress?
In this world, everything has an opposite. Black has white. Healthy has sick. Rich has poor. Stress has an opposite state of being as well. But what is the opposite of stressed? At postconsumers, we believe that the opposite of “stressed” is “satisfied”, and it’s our mission to help people find the satisfaction of enough so that they’ll ultimately learn to be less stressed. Go into your head for a moment and [...]
Finding a Cause
It seems as though what we’re about to say may be so obvious that we feel a little silly saying it, given that the mission of postconsumers is to help people find the things in life that make them satisfied, and we all know that philanthropy and altruism are by nature satisfying. However, we didn’t all grow up with parents who made us sell daffodils every year for cancer or volunteer at [...]
Quote of the Week: Fortune and Intellect
In the category of “the things we’d most like to fix in the world,” we’d love it if we could help everybody value their intellect more than their pocketbook. We’re realists and know that’s a long journey to take, but we like to think that the mission and growing following of postconsumers is starting us there. That belief is what led us to this week’s quote of the week: “No one is [...]
