10 Ways To Improve The Quality Of Your Life (for non-materialists only)

1. Get a library card and use it
2. Find a place that has a pleasant ambience, outdoor tables in summer, good pastry, and good coffee. Go there, order said refreshments, find a comfortable table, pull out the book that you got at the library, and make yourself at home. If weather permits, find an outside table and sit there.  Do this as often as you can, particularly when there is much to do at home.
3. Listen to music that is sublime and well-respected, like John Coltrane, The Beatles, and Gustav Mahler symphonies recorded by Leonard Bernstein.
4. Listen to music that is corny and despised, like The Partridge Family’s Greatest Hits, John Denver, Donovan, and Gustav Mahler symphonies recorded by Leonard Bernstein.
5. Feel free to dance to said music, anytime and anywhere, with the possible exception of funerals and religious services, but especially in public places like bus shelters.
6. Live in a big city, and walk a lot.
7. Get into the reality of the weather; don’t keep wishing it were different.
8. Eat pecan buns.
9. Cook, especially vegetarian recipes, like lentil burgers, chick pea stew, and black eyed pea soup.
10. Drink soy milk
11. Create your own daily routine, and if people laugh at you because you have your coffee at 9:30 every day, screw ‘em.
12. Promise 10 things, and deliver 12. Accuracy is overrated