365 Reasons I Love Costa Rica
Archive for June, 2010
Reason #335: Opportunity Cost
InvestorWords.com defines “opportunity cost” as follows… The cost of passing up the next best choice when making a decision. For example, if an asset such as capital is used for one purpose, the opportunity cost is the value of the next best purpose the asset could have been used for. But the phrase has viability [...]
Reason #334: Muy Mucho Mangos!
From the title of this post, one can quickly evaluate my level of Spanish. But then again, me intendiste, verdad? I get corrected alot, by Lily, her children, family and others. But, even so, the point usually gets across. And the point here is, I got mangos coming out my ears these days! We have [...]
Reason #333: Destiny is Amorphous
In less humble moments, I thought I had destiny figured out. And all the while I was taking desperate measures to manipulate it…to shape destiny into a form of my own making. But then things didn’t turn out at all like I expected. Do they ever? Maybe we should be thankful that they don’t. Maybe [...]
Reason #332: The Cure for the “Noisy Brain”
I have often found that I am at my worst when I am judging or prejudging, worrying and basically being impatient, bored and dissatisfied with life…AND blaming everyone else for my plight. I will call this attitude, or mindset, the noisy brain, or the brain that just won’t shut up. So what is the cure [...]
Reason #331: El Gran Escape
I read these days certain web sites and blogs that tout Costa Rica as “el gran escape” from the current misery being experienced in the U.S. Some even go so far as to say, escape the changing of “America” into a “communist” “martial law” state by moving to Costa Rica. Don’t you think all that [...]
Reason #330: A Word of Encouragement
Dear President Obama: With oil that is supposed to be powering our SUVs now spreading over the Gulf like the swine flu, with almost every single person knowing, or being, someone unemployed, with scandals, real or contrived, rapaciously knocking at the door of the oval office, with Fox News devoting 100% of its air-time and [...]
Reason #329: I Threw a Pity Party and No One Came
It might not be “fair,” but no one wants to come to your “pity party.” A “woe is me” attitude and the facial expressions that go along with it are sure ways to get rejected by just about everyone, sometimes even those closest to you. I know, the experience has been a regular occurrence for [...]
Reason #328: Hurry Up and Write
“They” (the experts, that is) will tell you that to be a successful blogger you must post and post often. Easier said than done. I find it very hard to tap into those “creative juices” when I am rushing myself to get a few words out before moving on to the next event clamoring for my [...]
Reason #327: Eat, Pray, Love AND Read the Book!
I found myself a little embarrassed at first reading Liz Gilbert’s wonderful book entitled Eat, Pray, Love. I was thinking to myself as I glanced around to make sure no one was watching, isn’t this a book for chics?” Well I believe it was about the tenth page that Gilbert hooked me in and had [...]
Reason #326: Odds and Ends
I have always been kind of an odd-ball, you know, one of those that just doesn’t “fit in.” I mean I tried. I even went to law school, the perfect breeding ground for “cogs.” What are “cogs” you ask? Well, I just finished reading a great book by Seth Godin called Lynchpin. Godin describes “cogs” as [...]
