Contentment, Progress and Happiness – How to Have It All!

Happiness Is Not

(Tom I saw the above image and this post. Comment below.)

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough, and we’ll be more content when they are.
After that, we’re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage.We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our partner gets his or her act together when we get a nicer car, are able to go on a nice holiday, when we retire.
The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?
Your life will always be filled with challenges.
It’s best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.
A quote comes to mind from Alfred D. Souza. He said,
“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”
This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.
So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time…and remember that time waits for no one.
So, stop waiting until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until winter, until your song comes on, until you’ve had a drink…. there is no better time than right now to be happy.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
Work like you don’t need money,
Love like you’ve never been hurt,

And dance like no one’s watching.

(Tom: First, some definitions:
grateful: feeling or showing an appreciation for something done or received.
content: willing to accept a particular thing; satisfied, accept as adequate despite wanting more or better.
happy: 
feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.

My perspective is that there are three desirable states:

1. being content with what good you currently have in your life,
2. being constructively discontent and working towards a better scene for yourself and others and
3. being happy.
There might seem to be some contradiction in these conditions of being but if you work at it you can maintain a balance and keep these three balls in the air. Let’s explore how.
Content versus Discontent
Many people are discontent with what they have. They allow that to make them unhappy. They do not apply the definition of content that includes, ‘accept as adequate despite wanting more or better’.
Many are destructively discontent with their existing life. They experience unhappiness about what they do not have. Most likely they have been upset with the scene so go out of communication with it. And you cannot solve a problem you are out of communication with! Without being in communication with an area they cannot come up with a solution to changing it so cannot formulate a concrete plan. Hence, no progress.
Which leads to the first step to improving anything – get more into communication with it!
A constructive discontent builds a desire to improve, it looks for a way to solve barriers to progress. Constructive discontent gets into communication with all elements of the situation. The more in communication with it you are, the more likely you are to have a light bulb moment and solve the problem!
Production and Morale
You may have noticed that when you overcome an obstacle towards you attaining a goal you feel happy.
You may have also noticed that when you produce something you feel happy.
Therefore you may be forgiven for thinking that happiness comes about from overcoming obstacles and producing things, goods or services. I know I do.

The might seem to be contrary states of being but if you work at it you can attain the peace of mind by being content with what you have concurrently with a desire to improve conditions while attaining happiness overcoming obstacles and producing products progressing towards accomplishing your goals.

Your Action Plan

Here’s a little exercise to help you attain this state of being:

1. Make a list of everything you are grateful for in your past or present.
Take a moment to feel content about those things.
2. Make a list of those things in your life you would like to change or improve.
For each item write a skill or ability you could acquire that would help you change that condition.
3. Set a sequence for the acquisition of those skills and abilities, most important first.
4. For the first skill or ability, work out how you will attain it. You might need to set conditional targets before you can start attaining the skill. For instance you might need to set aside some money to pay for a course or coach, or gather data so  you can evaluate prospective coaches. You might need to ‘sell’ your significant other on the time or money it will take to start this journey. You may find it useful to help them with these steps so you are both working on your shared goals or at least supporting each other on your individual goals, if they do not match.
5. Make a start on your action plan.
6. Keep at it, even if you encounter obstacles. Nothing worthwhile was ever achieved without some sweat, sometimes some blood.
7. Give yourself a pat on the back and celebrate your milestones and wins. Allow yourself to be happy for the small progresses as well as the big wins.

COVID-19 vaccine recommendations dropped by panel

The new ACIP Committee has been delicately chipping away at the mRNA guidelines with archeological tools. Yesterday, they fired up the jackhammer. The Wall Street Journal ran the story under the intentionally confusing headline, “COVID-19 vaccine recommendations dropped by panel, shots won’t require a prescription.

The news was that the CDC’s vaccine committee (called ACIP) met again yesterday for its second full day. They ultimately voted to further limit the covid mRNA shots, this time adding a requirement for “shared clinical decision-making” before anyone under 65 or not in a ‘high-risk’ group can get the shots. They nearly voted to require a prescription, it was so close, but that vote failed by a small margin.

Corporate media and its pet experts were alarmed, worried, fretful, and terrified, squawking things like this is the end, nobody’s following the science, and so forth and so on.

But, apart from that, the meeting was a bloodbath for the jabs. In the clip above, Pfizer and Moderna declined to respond to a direct question from a committee member. Even worse, they were forced to sit through a several lengthy presentations by the newly formed “Vaccine Working Group” about all the growing questions and problems over the jabs.

“Beyond antibody changes,” one presenter began, “the vaccinations have also been linked to long-lasting shifts in cytokine profiles, with elevated inflammatory cytokine persistence for months. These immune alterations may contribute to an increased risk of recurrent infection in some individuals.”

That was just the first bullet point.

The Workgroup continued through problem after problem, discussing biodistribution (it spreads all over the body, including into the brain), frameshifting (it creates random ‘nonsense’ proteins), and implausibly high levels of DNA contamination, including parts of a monkey virus (SV40), especially in the Pfizer shot.

💉 Even more astonishing, following the meeting, the CDC itself tweeted a very critical comment from Dr. Malone, questioning how the drugmakers can even tell the shots work.

What Dr. Malone meant is that there is no agreed-upon measurement —like a specific antibody level— that reliably predicts whether a person “is protected” from covid, either in terms of bare infection or severe disease.

Absent “consensus” on even what proves protection exists, how can the drugmakers claim the shots produce protection? Stop saying that.

Malone was pointing out that pharma’s claims of efficacy were only based on large-group statistical conclusions, rather than any hard-science-based —i.e. measurable— biological effect. Whereas, most other vaccines do have established correlates of protection— meaning that there are well-defined, measurable biological markers (often specific antibody levels) that can reliably predict immunity.

Anyway, Malone had a solid point, and he made it well. But the more important development was that his point was then re-published by the official US government Twitter account for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And that wasn’t all. The CDC also published a whole string of clips, the most recent including a clip of Dr. Retsef Levi stating that, “Sub-clinical myocarditis can cause death. It’s proven. It’s not questionable. Nevertheless, we are not talking about this with patients, and we are not stating that risk.”

They are prying the Overton Window open, inch by inch, one post at a time.

You should see the crazed hysteria in the comments by the medical fetishists, who are mad as hornets that their beloved CDC is now being used to push all this anti-vaxx propaganda. Don’t actually read the comments. There’s no logic; the pro-vaxxers never try to rebut the claims on the merits; it’s just name-calling and non-sequiters.

Some may wonder why, with all these evident problems, the Committee didn’t just withdraw authorization from the shots altogether? The short version is, this problem didn’t develop in a day, and it won’t be fixed in a day. The Committee appears to be carefully building an unassailable scientific record before pulling the plug. Still, every time they get a whack at the Pfizer piñata, they hit it a little harder.

The clock is ticking, louder and louder.

https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/unprescribed-saturday-september-20

Dr Jim Doty

Dr Jim Doty

Another man died last week. He was not a Hollywood celebrity, and he didn’t hold animal blood sacrifices on stage to become famous; he wasn’t complacent while young women were being drugged and raped, and he didn’t beat his wife and children.

He was none of those things, and his name is Dr. Jim Doty, a neurologist who dedicated his life to helping people recognize that being good and doing good may very well be the most significant and most powerful prophylactic to overall health that has ever existed.

We so often hear the phrase, If you eat crap, you’re going to feel like crap.

But very rarely do people talk about the fact that if you treat yourself and other people like crap, you are also going to feel like crap. Because either one will take a toll on your physical health. This is something I’ve been trying to instill in the minds of everyone for years. But nobody has done it better or said it better than Dr. Jim Doty a.k.a. “James R Doty” if you want to look him up and find out who he is.

I hope one day that every single one of you recognizes that the better you are as a human being, the healthier you will be. Hold that door open, just smile at a stranger, consider and be mindful of others. Love unconditionally and recognize that the purpose of each of us here is to help lift each other up.

Let’s all do a whole lot more of this than we have been, including me. We need it for our own health, but the world needs it so we can all come together again.

Cheese Based Flatbread

Cheese Based Flatbread

The Saucy Bit
4 cloves garlic
20 button tomatoes
roast for 10 minutes
Blend garlic and tomatoes for sauce

The Flatbread
Mix 1 cup cottage cheese
2 eggs
1 tablespoon chia seeds
Let soak for 10-15 minutes
To Cheese mix, add cut fresh herbs
1 cup Mozarella cheese
Spoon onto parchment
Add seasoning
Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes

The Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRWn-PJw_Zs

Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we’ve ever seen.

RFK Jr On Gardasil

RFK Jr.: “Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we’ve ever seen. This vaccine targets millions of preteens and teens for whom the risk of dying from cervical cancer is zero. Nobody in their right mind would ever take this vaccine if they actually read the clinical literature.”

“Death rates in the Gardasil trials were 37 times the death rates for cervical cancer. Children who take that vaccine, the Gardasil vaccine, are 37 times more likely to die from the vaccine than they are to die from cervical cancer. The problem with Gardasil, like most vaccines, is it was never tested against a true placebo, an inert placebo.”

“And the CDC and HHS say, if you don’t test it against a true placebo, it’s not science. You have no way of gauging whether the injuries you’re seeing from the product are being caused by that product, or whether they’re just bad, sad coincidences. The entity that is actually performing the study is, and paying for the study, is Merck.”

“Merck got to decide which injuries were being caused by Gardasil and which were just bad coincidences. And because it had that power, it just wrote them all off as bad coincidences.”

“You can do that when there’s no placebo, because the injuries they were seeing in the control group, where the girls were getting aluminum neurotoxins, were identical to the injuries they were getting in the Gardasil group.”

“So they said, well, we don’t have to report any of these as vaccine injuries. They were able to license something that is insanely dangerous.”

https://x.com/newstart_2024/status/1969148240911020251

Major Study: Covid ‘Vaccines’ Were ‘Deliberately Engineered’ to Cause ‘Unprecedented Levels’ of Death

Child Receiving Vaccination

A bombshell new peer-reviewed study has dropped a hammer on the official Covid narrative, concluding that both the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the mRNA “vaccines” share “deliberately engineered” features consistent with gain-of-function biological weapons research.

The researchers behind the study warn that the mRNA injections have caused “unprecedented levels of morbidity and mortality.”

The study’s paper was authored by 11 scientific and legal experts.

It was published in the prestigious Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

The paper argues that the genetic signatures of SARS-CoV-2, and the dangerous spike protein it shares with the vaccines, “represent a violation of the Biological Weapons Convention.”

The study lays out what many have long suspected but few dared to say: COVID-19 was not a natural accident, and the vaccine rollout only deepened the harm.

“Far from benign, these vaccines have unleashed profound harm, disrupting nearly every system of the human body and contributing to unprecedented levels of morbidity and mortality,” the paper states.

Lead author Dr. Andrew Zywiec did not mince words:

“The systemic toxicity unleashed by these interventions, manifesting as autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular devastation, aggressive cancers, and catastrophic reproductive harms, represents not merely a public health failure but a profound betrayal of trust.”

The paper details a cascade of harms linked to the vaccines, from “autoimmune diseases and cardiovascular catastrophes to pregnancy complications and aggressive cancers.”

Joseph Sansone, Ph.D., who has filed suit to prohibit mRNA “vaccines” in Florida, called the study historic:

“This is the first peer-reviewed journal article stating that both Covid and the Covid injections violate the Biological Weapons Convention and that both COVID-19 and the Covid injections are biological weapons.”

The authors identify multiple red flags in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, including the notorious furin cleavage site, absent in nature but known to “enhance infectivity” in engineered viruses.

The paper cites military scientists who previously described SARS-CoV-2 as containing “evidence of manipulation” that makes it an “attractive pathogen.”

According to the authors, these manipulations were not just reckless science; they were illegal under the 1975 Biological Weapons Convention.

The study directly accuses former NIAID director Dr. Anthony Fauci and U.S. intelligence officials of concealing the engineered origins of the virus.

It points to Project DEFUSE, a 2018 EcoHealth Alliance proposal to DARPA that outlined creating coronaviruses with features eerily similar to SARS-CoV-2, including the furin cleavage site.

While DARPA rejected the proposal, EcoHealth and Wuhan collaborators allegedly pursued the experiments with other funding.

The paper highlights the now-infamous Feb. 1, 2020, Fauci call with top virologists.

Some of those virologists admitted that the virus looked engineered before co-authoring the widely cited “Proximal Origin” paper claiming the opposite.

That paper, the study notes, became one of the most cited publications of 2020 and was used worldwide to suppress the lab-leak theory.

“The deliberate concealment of critical genomic features delayed public awareness and pandemic mitigation efforts, potentially allowing wider spread and more deaths,” the authors state.

Perhaps the most disturbing claim is that the spike protein from the mRNA injections doesn’t just vanish after 48 hours, as promised.

The study cites evidence of spike protein and vaccine nucleic acids lingering in the body for months, even years, detected in heart tissue, blood plasma, placentas, breast milk, and now even tumors.

“Prolonged protein expression, exemplified by S1 spike protein detection more than 700 days post-Covid vaccination, underscores the potential for irreversible harm,” the authors warn.

Military data cited in the paper show alarming spikes in myocarditis (151%), pulmonary embolism (43%), ovarian dysfunction (35%), and multiple cancers following the “vaccine” rollout.

The paper lands just as HHS pulled broad authorization for Covid “vaccines” and canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA research contracts.

Its conclusion is blunt:

“The surge in autoimmune diseases, aggressive cancers, pregnancy losses, cardiovascular fatalities, societal fragmentation, and the looming risks of advanced mRNA platforms demand an immediate halt to mRNA vaccine and biologic use, comprehensive investigations into the motives behind this unprecedented violation of public trust, and robust measures to restore safe therapeutics and ethical public health practices.”

Co-author Dr. Irene Mavrakakis went further, demanding:

“Complete recall of all COVID-19 vaccines and biologics and a moratorium on all mRNA biologics,” along with the criminal prosecution of decision-makers who “were criminally negligent and failed in their duties.”

She added that vaccine manufacturers must lose the liability shields granted under federal law.

This study represents the most direct challenge yet to the official Covid narrative.

It doesn’t just question safety, it raises the possibility that both the virus and the “vaccines” were products of deliberate engineering, with catastrophic consequences.

And the authors are clear, warning the public that the damage is ongoing, and the truth can no longer be ignored.

https://slaynews.com/news/major-study-covid-vaccines-deliberately-engineered-cause-unprecedented-levels-death/

5,000 Americans Killed by Covid ‘Vaccines’ Every Week, Insurance Data Shows

Child Receiving Injection

One of the world’s leading data analysts has sounded the alarm, revealing that the insurance industry is now tracking up to 5,000 deaths every single week linked to the Covid mRNA “vaccines.”

The revelation comes from Edward Dowd, a former Wall Street executive and respected data expert, who disclosed the findings in a recent interview with the Commodity Culture podcast.

Dowd, who has been monitoring life insurance and disability trends since the rollout of the shots, warned that the number of “healthy young adults dropping dead” has skyrocketed at an unprecedented rate.

Injuries 10–15 Times Higher Than Before

According to Dowd, it’s not only deaths spiking but also devastating injuries.

“Injuries are 10–15 times higher” than pre-2021 levels, he explained.

Dowd said the hardest-hit demographic is people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, age groups that previously had low mortality risk but are now appearing in excess death data across the insurance industry.

“30–50-year-olds are dropping dead,” Dowd said bluntly.

Suppression by Media and Tech

Dowd argues the scale of the crisis is being hidden in plain sight:

“The media and tech giants actively suppress these stories,” he warned.

The suppression campaign has allowed officials and pharmaceutical companies to continue pushing the narrative of “safe and effective,” even as insurance companies quietly pay out billions in claims tied to sudden deaths, disabilities, and long-term illnesses.

A Crisis Too Big to Ignore

Dowd’s findings echo what independent researchers and frontline doctors have been warning for years.

Leading experts have been raising the alarm to warn the public that the mRNA injections have unleashed a wave of sudden deaths and catastrophic injuries.

However, pharmaceutical companies and their allies in Congress and the corporate media are refusing to acknowledge the devastation.

With up to 5,000 deaths a week now being tied to the shots in the U.S. alone, the question is no longer whether this is happening; it’s why those in power are covering it up.

Dowd, a former executive at the world’s largest investment firm, BlackRock, has been sounding the alarm about surging deaths among the Covid-vaxxed for some time.

He is considered one of America’s leading data experts.

Through his expert analysis of insurance industry data, Dowd has become a prominent figure in investigations into the impact of the global Covid “vaccination” campaign.

As Slay News previously reported, Dowd dropped a chilling warning in April after uncovering evidence showing that the number of excess deaths of working-age Americans is skyrocketing.

According to an alarming warning from Dowd, insurance industry data shows that excess deaths are soaring among people aged 18 to 64 years old.

These deaths started exploding after the Covid mRNA “vaccines” were rolled out for public use in early 2021.

However, the deaths appear to show no signs of slowing down, despite the pandemic being long over and “vaccination” rates dropping off.

In January 2022, Life Insurance CEO Scott Davidson reported that death rates among working-aged people aged 18 to 64 were “up 40 percent over what they were pre-pandemic.”

He explained that a 40 percent spike in deaths was completely unprecedented.

Davidson compared a 10 percent rise in deaths to a once-in-200-year flood.

According to Dowd, excess deaths are now “off the charts.”

Davidson also noted that excess deaths that started surging in 2021 were non-Covid deaths.

Meanwhile, those who are attempting to warn the public about the dangers of the “vaccines” are increasingly coming under fire.

As Slay News recently reported, a pharmaceutical industry whistleblower has spoken out to allege that a world-renowned professor, Dr. Francis Boyle, was murdered shortly before he was due to testify before a Dutch court that Covid mRNA “vaccines” were developed as deadly “bioweapons.”

Dr. Boyle, a bioweapons expert, wrote the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act, which was passed by Congress and signed into U.S. law in 1990 by President H. W. Bush.

Boyle, who was one of the most prominent law professors in the world, declared last year that “everyone involved” in pushing Covid mRNA shots onto the public committed “crimes against humanity.”

During an interview last summer, Dr. Boyle asserted that the “frankenshots” were part of a plan to conduct “medical experimentation” on humanity.

He warned the public that COVID-19 was developed in a lab as “an offensive biological weapon.”

Professor Boyle argued that those who pushed the mRNA injections “clearly violated the Nuremberg Code.”

Boyle died unexpectedly in Urbana, Illinois, on January 30, 2025, at the age of 74.

His cause of death was never disclosed.

READ MORE – Major Study: Covid ‘Vaccines’ Were ‘Deliberately Engineered’ to Cause ‘Unprecedented Levels’ of Death

https://slaynews.com/news/5000-americans-killed-covid-vaccines-every-week-insurance-data-shows/