My Favorites September 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!

Why So Many of Us Experience a Midlife Crisis

People often come to see me when they are in their 30s or 40s and say, I have done what was expected of me and had a career doing the right thing, now I want to do something else. Something that makes me feel whole/complete. Something that brings me joy and fulfilment and helps me fulfil a personal quest. But, I’m not sure what my purpose is.

Interesting HBR article. Read it here

5 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR ENERGY

Beautiful article by Kate James, read it here

Sadhguru: Is Suffering Inevitable?

4 Things Good Listeners Do
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. Read this practical article here

How Do You Know You Exist?

A Mind-Bending Animated Homage to Descartes Exploring the Conundrum of Reality. Brainpickings

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

Posted on by DieterL

My monthly “My Favorites” routine includes posting links to great content I ran across, to encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. Enjoy!

Seth Gordon not only looks different, more importantly he also thinks differently

The generosity boomerang

Here’s conventional wisdom:

Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous.

In fact, it actually works like this:

Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Do You Trust Yourself? Should You?

It’s a compelling headline: Stop Trusting Yourself. By Northeastern University psychologist David DeSteno, it’s featured in today’s NYTimes, and ostensibly shows that we mistakenly trust ourselves – that if anything, we mis-estimate our own trustworthiness more than that of others. Read this profound article by Charles H.Green

The Dreaded Curse of Comparison

Of all the lessons there are to learn in life, one stands out for me. What is that lesson? It’s learning to be myself. Read on.

Is Your Life A Super Highway or a Garden Path?

So many of us feel like our lives are a race – a dash. We are sprinting through the events of our lives to get them “all done.” We have amazing to-do lists; we are compelled to achieve and accomplish; society says this is how we get ahead. We pride ourselves on being so productive.

But what if, instead, the value of life were not in the dash and amount of things we do, but in the quality of life’s events – in the time we spend enjoying, connecting and becoming part of what we do? What if life were more like a garden path than a superhighway?

If you’re living in the northern hemisphere, and therefore – most likely/hopefully (you choose) – about to go on holidays, here are some book recommendations.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

PS: If you want to comment, ask a question or inquire how personal mentoring can help you to live a meaningful life visit

www.langenecker.com/lifementoring.html

Great Last Minute Gift – For Someone You Care (Which Includes Yourself)

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Not sure what gift to buy?

I’d like to recommend you this book:

The inspirational #1 Bestseller by John P. Strelecky. Now translated into twenty-one languages and read by more than a million readers worldwide. In a small cafe at a location so remote it sits in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John–a man in a hurry–is at a crossroads. Intent only on refueling before moving along on his road trip, he finds sustenance of an entirely different kind. In addition to the specials of the day, the cafe menu lists three questions all diners are encourage to consider.

Why are you here?

Do you fear death?

Are you fulfilled?

With this food for thought and the guidance of three people he meets at the cafe, John embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes him from the executive suites of the advertising world to the surf of Hawaii’s coastline. Along the way he discovers a new way to look at life, himself, and just how much you can learn from a green sea turtle.

(Bonus tip: also might make a great gift for yourself)

Enjoy the festive season!

Dieter

PS: If you want to comment, ask a question or inquire how personal mentoring can help you to live a meaningful life visit www.langenecker.com/lifementoring.html

The yardstick of success is not measured by fame and wealth;

it is measured by your level of understanding of

who you are, why you are here

and where are you going from here. (Tulshi Sen)

And if you are based in the southern hemisphere:

Dieter Langenecker Purpose Counseling & LifeMentoring

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My Favorites September 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

Great Last Minute Gift – For Someone You Care (Which Includes Yourself)