Feel Less Stressed: Take Breaks from the Rat Race
Do you feel like there’s never any break? From Monday until Friday you work your forty hours. For many of us, we work more than forty hours in order to make enough money to buy the things that we think we “need.” Then, the weekend hits. You have to catch up on all of the errands, house chores and other activities that you couldn’t do during the week because you were so [...]
Learning to Set “You” Time
One of the things that we talk about with postconsumers is learning to slow yourself, your mind and your brain down in order to be more diligent about experiencing the satisfaction of enough in any given moment. We’ve given tips before on ways to accomplish this, but it’s incredibly challenging to learn to go from a constantly “on” and driving forward state to a state of being able to stop and appreciate moments [...]
Start a Stuff Swap in Your Neighborhood
Earlier in this blog, we talked about Russell Brand’s excellent effort to draw attention to the idea of a “swap shop” in Los Angeles with his “Buy Love Here” initiative. Just because Russell Brand is a celebrity, however, doesn’t mean that he’s the only one who can inspire his neighborhood to enjoy a “Swap Shop” or “New to You” event. All it takes is one motivated community organizer (you!) to get a swap [...]
Why We Love Russell Brand
Some people love comedian and actor Russell Brand because of his funny movies and stand-up act. Some people love him just because he loves Katy Perry. But we at Postconsumers love Russell Brand because he created “Buy Love Here,” a temporary swap shop (even saying the words “swap shop” makes us happy) in Los Angeles’s posh Beverly Center. Buy Love Here was a pop-up swap shop that was set up in order to [...]
Five Ways to Identify a Postconsumer
As postconsumers takes root and becomes a movement, the characteristics of a postconsumer begin to emerge! No, there’s no secret handshake (yet!). However, you’ll find a number of similar characteristics that identify members of the community and those who are learning to embrace the satisfaction of enough. Here are five ways that you can try to determine if somebody is heading toward club postconsumers! 1 Postconsumers Glare at the “Impulse Buy” Shelves If [...]
Training Your Mind to be Satisfied
If you ask most people on the street, they will tell you that they do want to learn to experience the satisfaction of enough. Very few people wouldn’t want to be better at being “in the moment” and enjoying what’s right there in front of them because they feel complete or well. However, saying that you want to experience the satisfaction of enough and then being able to actually do it are two [...]
How to Start a Satisfaction Journal
We’ve talked before about how becoming a postconsumer and finding the satisfaction of enough is a process, and we’ve also talked about how we believe that journaling is an important part of any process. Starting a satisfaction journal is an important step in learning about the things that make you feel satisfied. It’s also a great tool for working through the changes in you mentally and emotionally as you work on reducing [...]
Make a Summer Reading List: Words and Thoughts are Satisfying
When was the last time you read a book? For many of us, sadly, the answer will not be as near in the past (or present) as we’d like. As media bombards us on a more daily basis, the time we spend watching television (up to seven hours a day in some cases) or on the internet (up to thirty hours a week by some studies) increases and takes us away from written [...]
Quote of the Week: Happiness is a Warm Puppy
The truth of the matter is that the quote of the week this week is from the Peanuts comic strip, or more specifically from a Peanuts book crafted by creator Charles Schultz, because one of the Postconsumers staff members is a huge Peanuts fan and repeats that quote when she’s feeling stressed out. However, we think the essence of the quote speaks to what we’re all talking about here. “Happiness is a [...]
Summer Satisfaction Activities: Take Advantage of the Sun
If you live somewhere where it’s winter for six months of the year, then this is one of the best times of the year! The sun is out, it’s easy to spend time outside, and, best of all, you don’t need to spend at least an hour a day scraping snow off of your car windows! As we’re exploring ways to find satisfaction, today we’ll talk about taking advantage of the sun! [...]
