Physical Exercise and Its Contribution to Satisfaction
One of the keys to finding the satisfaction of enough is to find activities that leave you feeling, well, satisfied. Postconsumers isn’t the end all resource for suggestions, but sometimes we like to explore some of the ideas that our users and members have sent in for ways to find your daily satisfaction. This week, we’re taking a look at … physical exercise! You may be saying, “Well, that’s a very broad [...]
Wanda Urbanska’s new book is all heart!
Love for the world beats powerfully inside the pages of a brand-new book today, “The Heart of Simple Living: 7 Paths to a Better Life.” Wanda Urbanska is its celebrated and prolific author, with all of her works showcased at www.simplelivingtv.net where the Simple Living with Wanda Urbanska national television series is anchored. Much more than a friend to Postconsumers, Wanda gives lifeblood to all she touches. As a tribute to the [...]
Six Easy Ways to Help with Global Warming
Collect your ‘Bragging Rights’ Here. By Michael Beck It feels great when you can do well by doing good - and get a nice sense of virtuousness in the process. The following is a short list of steps you can take immediately to reduce your household carbon footprint while in most cases saving money. Don’t hesitate to pat yourself on the back for any of these actions you have already taken. And it [...]
Impulse Cash Register Buys – Just Say No
Sure, we’ve all done it (or at least most of us have). You’re standing in line at the grocery store or a large department store. You’ve done a great job of buying only what you needed, staying in budget and not giving in to all of the “stuff” that was thrown in your face. Unfortunately, you’ve got one last hurdle to overcome, and this hurdle is one of the trickiest. It’s the impulse [...]
Quote of the Week: On Business and Happiness
Postconsumers isn’t the only group of people out there exploring the idea of satisfaction and consumerism, or for that matter just happiness! Many people have said many brilliant things on the topic, and each week we’ll bring you one for discussion. This week’s quote of the week is: “Since the purpose of business is to satisfy existing desires, or stimulate new ones, if everyone were genuinely happy, there would be no need for [...]
Why Everybody is Learning to Belly Dance: Get Satisfied, Fit and Sexy
One of the keys to finding the satisfaction of enough is to find activities that leave you feeling, well, satisfied. Postconsumers isn’t the end all resource for suggestions, but sometimes we like to explore some of the ideas that our users and members have sent in for ways to find your daily satisfaction. This week, we’re taking a look at one for the ladies … belly dancing! In the past five years, [...]
The Fine Art of the Garage Sale
We’re all trying to become a postconsumerhere! We’re trying to let go of some of our emotional attachment to “stuff” and find ways to experience the satisfaction of enough. One of the first things that we need to do is to work on letting go of our over-attachment to the things that we’ve collected around us. What’s the best way to do that? Well it’s a garage sale of course! But we’re [...]
“The Joneses” are keeping up with us!
At last, a mainstream parody on keeping up with the Joneses that helps people yearn to move beyond addictive consumerism (as well as move beyond the production values of the film, but it’s the brilliant concept that counts). “The Joneses” is a fascinating movie that just opened around the country, starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny. Billed as “a satire on our consumerist society” and “a zeitgeist film,” I loved the clear message [...]
Dr. April Lane Benson reviews our web course
Dr. April Lane Benson, a leading NYC psychologist who treats shopaholics, just reviewed our short Get Satisfied web course in her newsletter, excerpt below. Dr. Benson's website is http://www.stoppingovershopping.com. "To be a postconsumer is to evolve beyond the inevitable disappointments of consumerism, with its hyped-up treadmill of buy after buy, to the satisfaction of enough. Postconsumers.com seeks to foster this evolution in individual consumers through its Get Satisfied Interactive Handbook, a light-hearted albeit [...]
The Onion strikes again
In catching up with recent editions of The Onion online, I came across this gem: U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct. What began as a routine report before the Senate [...]
