Man has actually only four types of solvable problems:

1. Economic
2. Esthetic (includes religion)
3. Social and
4. Sexual

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS: You have no problems when your economy allows you to best satisfy your needs. You have problems when your needs are more than the means you control to satisfy them.

Economic problems can be divided into two parts: money and time. Always keep in mind that. Money is an instrument of exchange — a means, never a goal. Money is a social way to give value to the work or service you provide to society.

Although the market laws rule one the final outcome, both service and work you render are valued by a — not always correct or fair — quantity and quality scales or by social influences.

If you want to increase your income, you must:

1. increase your working or servicing hours
2. better the quality of your work or service, or
3. better your manipulation of people in influencing positions

1 — is accomplished by allocating more time of your own.

2 — is accomplished by drilling, studying, creating and inventing.

3 — is accomplished in social gatherings, where you can apply sophisticated tactics of persuasion on those personal relations who are in charge of assigning money value to your work or service

Time is the most precious currency. Use it wisely to satisfy your needs to the fullest. Time allows you to improve the quality of your work or service. Although time is the most readily-available asset, it is also the one you tend to waste the most. You usually waste time:

• by getting involved with unprofitable tasks or chores
• by doing things you dislike
• by listening to boring conversations
• by daydreaming
• by doing nothing at all
• by feeling sorry for yourself
• by feeling sorry for others
• by discussing unrealistic solutions to problems
• by planning irrationally
• by trying to reason without premises
• by having company you dislike
• by pretending to be what you are not
• by wanting to be what you cannot be
• by trying to change the unchangeable
• by trying to change people's behavior, religion, philosophy or political views.

To refrain from wasting of time: Ask yourself, before giving your time away: Do I — or somebody I love — gain anything by my doing this? Answer only Yes or No. If your answer is yes, do it! If your answer is no, don't do it! As simple as that.

POETIC PROBLEMS: Subdivided in two parts:

(1) Esthetics. Your likes and dislikes in the Material World, meaning any shape, color, harmony, rhythm or whatever you need to feel good, content, happy, and in peace with yourself. And

(2) Religion, that is, a poetic explanation of that which is inexplicable.

(1) Likes and dislikes: You feel unhappy when you are separated from your likes and also when you are in a forced binding with your dislikes. To be happy you must be close to your favorite colors, sounds, shapes, harmony, smells, touch, tastes, temperature, rhythms, melodies. Determine which ones you really like (dumping other people’s influences). Then keep them close to you as much as you can through the forming of your living environment.

When your are constantly exposed to your wrong color, shape, smell, sounds, etc. in a permanent way or environment, your psychological health will eventually suffer and you may have physical breakdowns. A healthy mix allows you to better appreciate life.

(2) Religion, poetry of the inexplicable. Faith obviously implies doubt. Faith exists to fill — with poetic truths — the gaps in logic, especially anything that has to do with infinity (space) and eternity (time). To function logic needs time and space limits.

Faith goes amuck when it becomes a simplistic morality, crushing spiritual values. Religious problems exist when the answers your religion gives to your spiritual questions do not satisfy you, because they contradict the justice in your own reality, or when harsh condemnations prevail over love and understanding or when spiritual trance becomes a fake when you need more realistic answers or when reality is more important for you than a poetic world or when ceremonies lose their charm and magic spell or when you are not that easily convinced solutions.

Then it is time to choose a religion that fulfills your spiritual needs; to choose not to have a religion and trust your god(s) or to choose not to have a religion at all, and be an atheist

SOCIAL PROBLEMS: The two more important social problems deal with

(1) Peer Pressure and

(2) Compromising. Peer pressure is not an adolescent’s problem, as commonly thought. It affects man all his life.

Peer pressure is not really collectively produced, as commonly perceived. It is usually imposed by a leader that senses and filters the needs, likes, and dislikes of a majority in a group he forms and molds.

Anyone challenging his codes presents a threat to his domination. And that one will surely be attacked by the group by order of their leaders, especially using derogatory terms or insults.

By emotionally disregarding the collective codes of a group, you reduce the mental impact of its influence. Fight back with indifference, but never antagonistically. Ignore the masses, not the leader.

Indifference is the strongest weapon against fear pressure.

Defend your individuality. To protect your individuality, you must never allow public discussion of your personal life and especially, you never explain yourself or your personal behavior to a group.

Never allow strangers to discuss your personal tastes, how you should spend your time. Etc. Discuss your life and intimate matters only with a very close friend (and then, one at a time).

Political parties, government rules, police regulations, are social elements which also produce peer pressure. A certain degree of peer-pressure is important to keep a social group in balance. A maladjustment of this system causes real problems.

Organized religion (not religion as a intimate spiritual matter) uses tremendous peer-pressure on adults. If your organized religion pressures you beyond a normal level, you are better off dropping it, and keeping your faith to yourself. Again, never antagonize peer-pressure. Just stay away from it!

Compromising: It helps relations work. Just one word of advice for those with social problems of this kind. Be courteous! Read a good book on Etiquette and practice its advice.

If you are not willing to compromise and to be polite and well mannered with your neighbor, go find a good cave in a far away country and dwell in it all by yourself.

Practice your good manners in the following order: (1) Parents and children , (2) Close friends, (3) Relatives go third, and acquaintances and strangers go last, no least, last. Ill-mannered people practice these rules the other way around.

SEXUAL PROBLEMS: They can be divided into (1) Physical and (2) Mental problems. If you have a physical sexual problem (note that impotence could be either physical or mental, a doctor can tell you) GO AND SEE A DOCTOR, IMMEDIATELY, DON'T LEAVE IT FOR LATER!!!

SEX IN YOUR MIND. Sexual problems of a mental kind are avoided with rules that are easy to understand, although difficult to put into practice. First, you need to clearly define your true SEXUAL ORIENTATION.

Do it based on how you feel. Refrain from judging your self and from squeezing your responses into tight preconceived molds of how you would like others to perceive you.

The following questions are for guidance only. Answer them in your mind when you are alone or to a friend you can really trust.

1. Do you like women only?
2. Do you like men only?
3. Do you like men and women?
4. Celibacy (no sex)?
5. Others (explain)______________________________
6. Do you enjoy masturbation better than human contact?
7. What kind of sex practice you like best?
8. Oral? Missionary Intercourse?
9. Various Positions Intercourse?
10. Anal?
11. Masturbation?
12. Mutual Masturbation?
13. Sexual toys (dildos, etc.)?
14. Other kicks: define them to yourself:______________________

After answering all the above questions, ask yourself this:

Am I living according to my sexual orientation? or Am I unhappy because I am trying to change my sexual orientation to please my peers, or my family, barely convincing them with a hypocritical behavior that is too taxing for me?

Once you have clearly established where your sexuality stands, ACCEPT YOURSELF and do your best to be happy. Find the proper social channels to express your sexuality openly and you will become a better and more tender, intimate person. Also: STAY AWAY from incompatible people! KEEP IN MIND THAT...

…sex orientation becomes a psychological malfunction only when the subject is egodiagnostic, that is, when (s)he considers him(her)self below desired (mostly social) moral standards. A too strong self criticism could lead to impotence in men.