Which sensation do you think is more prevalent:

Feeling bored or feeling overwhelmed?

Whichever one of those options you selected, let's meet in the middle and agree that "overwhelmed" is the predominant feeling for people in the world today.

Pleasing the folks around you, email, recycling, eating your vegetables, searching for things that don't exist (Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, the clitoris)... all of these activities take a toll on our well-being.

Here's a great book that came out last year which may be your ticket to freeing up your time for a more enjoyable summer:

Free Up Your Fuck budget!

Learning to put yourself first serves the world in a far better manner than you could possibly imagine!

If you can learn to take care of yourself ahead of obligating yourself to others, then you can show the world the BEST you that you have to offer.

We all know a guy who doesn't want to break up with his girlfriend because he doesn't want to 'hurt her feelings.'

So what does he do?

Rather than speak the truth of why he's not happy (thus giving his girlfriend or spouse the opportunity for a mature, adult dialogue on how to make their relationship better), he instead becomes distant until SHE breaks up with HIM.

Thus wasting months of both of their time, because he wanted to be the 'good' guy.

HASHTAG: MASSIVE FAIL!

Life can be painful.

It's the nature of the beast;
it's unavoidable.

However, if you address the pain and actively work on a solution together, you may both come out ahead.

For instance, a common example:

SHE gets to keep her man,
HE gets anal sex every Tuesday!

Democracy in action folks - working together, we can solve all of the world's problems, while at the same time supplanting Monday as the worst day of the week!

I'll be blood testing my testosterone levels in a few days to see if the over-the-counter supplements, weight training, and healthy diet over the last 10 weeks have made any measurable difference for this fella in his early 40's.

A full report on that adventure once the results are in!

Look for a Comedy Open Mic Post early this Fall on the colonoscopy I need to schedule...

18 meters of garden hose in the muffler after they give you a med in the same drug class as Rohypnol; the perfect story to share over crumpets and tea with the ladies at Church ⛪

I nominate @ned to share a humorous story about selling low-yield explosives in his childhood (there's our handsome CEO and I at SteemFest²):

I also nominate @artwatch, who I'm hoping will run a "Show me your colon!" photo contest this Autumn so I can put up my sphincter pics somewhere besides just on my fridge.

It's Monday Steemit!

Get out there and re-negotiate a free trade agreement!

Thank you for reading,

@scan0017 😘