My Favorites March 2016: 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!

Ancient Wisdom in Modern Times – Deepak Chopra and Sadhguru

What is the Meaning of Life ?

At some point or another we all have struggled to get answers to the questions like What is the meaning of life ? What is the purpose of life ? What is the definition of life? Why are we here? What is the purpose of MY life? What is life? Guest post by Happiness

How to Build an Empire
Leo Babauta on how to build a successful business. Read it here!

Uncertainty and Our Search for Meaning: Legendary Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom on How We Glean Our Sense of Purpose
“The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. Meaning ensues from meaningful activity: the more we deliberately pursue it, the less likely are we to find it.” Brainpickings

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker

My Favorites February 2016: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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7 Principles for Leaving a Legacy

If You’re Too Busy to Meditate, Read This

Peter Bregman in the Harvard Business Review

How to Want Very Little
Leo Babauta on

There’s a part of today’s consumerist world that drives us to want more, buy more, act on our impulses, hoard, spend to solve our problems, create comfort through shopping, seek thrills through travel, do more, be more. What would happen if we broke from our addiction to wanting and buying more? What would life be like if we didn’t need all that? Read it here!

Our Proudest Accomplishments Are Often the Quiet Ones

“…I kept trying to run away. And I almost did. But it seems that reality compels you to live properly when you live in the real world.” ~Kenzaburō Ōe, 1994 Winner Nobel Prize for literature.

Read it here

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker

My Favorites January 2016: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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The happy secret to better work

We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive.

How to Find Your Calling?

Sadhguru talks about whether one should go looking for their life’s calling, and how we can explore and experience life in its totality. Read it here

The Joy of Letting Go of Stress
Leo Babauta. What else. Read it here!

Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0

W.L. Gore: Lessons from a Management Revolutionary

As a management researcher, I’ve had the opportunity to peer inside a lot of organizations. In doing so, I’ve learned that most big companies are pretty much the same, at least when it comes to the way they’re managed. The rituals of goal-setting, planning, budgeting and performance appraisal differ only slightly from firm to firm. There’s even less variety in the architecture of power. Hierarchical authority structures, top-down leadership appointments and order-following employees have come to nearly every organization I’ve studied-nearly. One amazing exception is W.L. Gore & Associates. Known mostly for its Gore-Tex range of high-performance fabrics, the company makes more than 1,000 products and employs 9,000 in 50 locations around the world. Wherever it operates, Gore is frequently ranked as one of the best possible places to work. Continue reading

The Five Life-Stages of Happiness: How Our Definition of Contentment Changes Over the Course of Our Lifetime
“Our meaning of happiness is constantly shaped and reshaped by small choices we make every day.” Brainpickings

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker

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

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7 Powerful Questions for Discerning Your Purpose

Each of us has a distinctly individual purpose for our talents and gifts. But sometimes we stand at a crossroads, wondering which way is the best way for making use of all that we are and have to offer. Here are seven powerful questions to ask when trying to discern your very unique purpose

The Calm Approach

Leo Babauta at his best. Read it here

Why You Should Call a Timeout Every Day
Annual vacations, sick days, and even weekends are not enough of a respite from the busy world. While reducing busyness may be the long-term goal, immediately you need to call a timeout every day to focus on things that … continue reading

How To Let Go Of Suffering

People tend to think that if they satisfy their desires, then they will be happier. They think,if my kids behave a certain way, then I’ll be happy. If I don’t lose my patience, then I’ll be happy. If I can do something really new and interesting, then I’ll be happy.

But satisfying desires never makes you happy, at least not for very long. Yes, it will feel good for a little bit, but ultimately it won’t solve the problem of suffering.

The first step to letting go …

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN LUCK

LUCK-IN BUSINESS AND IN LIFE-ISN’T ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOU, IT’S ALSO SOMETHING YOU CAN FIND AND HELP CREATE. Read it here

Letting Go of Wishing Things Were Different

One of the hardest things to let go of is the way we want things to be. We have fantasies of how our lives could be like, what we could be like as people, what other people should be like, what the world should be like. These are fantasies, but we rarely recognize them as such. And so it’s hard to let them go, because we want them so.

(Leo Babauta) Read it here

6 Little Money Mindset Shifts That Pay Off Huge
Just in time before the festive season: Marie Forleo

A Zen Master Explains Death and the Life-Force to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind Brainpickings

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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Activating the Life Purpose That’s Right Under Your Nose

“Our obligation is to give meaning to life, and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.” ~Elie Wiesel To the life purpose under your nose…. Read it here

Surrender, Mindfulness & Entrepreneurship

Running a business often is about sales, revenue, marketing, and the bottom line. But it can have soul too. In my new Habits of Entrepreneurs video interview series, I’ve recently published two fantastic interviews with entrepreneurs who do things differently.

And they’re incredibly successful at doing things this way. (Leo Babauta) Read it here

A Six-Year-Old’s Advice on Life and Overcoming Fear, Turned into a Heartwarming Movie
Why thinking about pizza can be a potent form of cognitive-behavioral therapy for self-doubt. Read this brain picking here

Know Yourself. Wait, what does that even mean?

Know yourself means four things. Charles H Green

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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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

Dieter Langenecker Purpose Counseling & LifeMentoring

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