My Favorites August 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 Do We Search For More in Our Lives?

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 article by Hemla Makan-Dullabh. Read it here

The moderation glitch

More doesn’t scale forever. Why are we so bad at engaging with this obvious truth? Seth Godin, continue reading

Sadhguru: Stop Being Dead Serious About Life

Want to Succeed? Let Go
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning.~Lao Tsu. Guest post by John Freund

Integrity: What’s Up With That?

What do you mean when you think of integrity? Like trust, integrity is something we all talk about, meaning many different things, but always assuming that everyone else means just what we do. That leads to some vagueness and confusion. But a careful examination of how we use the words in common language is useful. Charles H. Green

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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Do You Know Who You Really Are?

Interesting article by Ed and Deb Shapiro about the masks we wear. Read it here

3 Little Tricks to Deal With People Who Offend You

Something that we struggle with daily, that eats us up and causes stress and anger: annoying people.

You know those people: they cut in line, are rude to you in the office or at the restaurant, cut you off in traffic, talk loudly about obnoxious things, play loud music when you’re trying to concentrate, interrupt you, and so on.

These offenses are violations of the way you think people should act. And so it burns you up. Don’t worry, I’m the same way.

If you just keep letting these offensive people get to you, you’ll always be mad or annoyed. Life won’t be very good. But it’s something you can learn to deal with.

I have to admit I’m not perfect at this, but here are three strategies I use that are helpful: Leo Babauta, continue reading

Brené Brown on Blame

Book recommendation: The Great Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on How to Do “Hugging Meditation”

“When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings.” Read about this book here

What the Dalai Lama Taught Daniel Goleman About Emotional Intelligence

Two decades before Daniel Goleman first wrote about emotional intelligence in the pages of HBR, he met his holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at Amherst College, who mentioned to the young science journalist for the New York Times that he was interested in meeting with scientists. Read the HBR article here

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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4 Questions to Help You Find Your Passion

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. Article by H. Lovelyn Bettison. Read it here

Finding Focus

Do you ever have one of those days when you just can’t seem to find focus? When you fritter away your time on nothingnesses, distractions, wandering without really doing something important?

Or one of those weeks?

I have those days regularly. I can find myself “working” for several hours, but at the end of those several hours have nothing to show for it. I feel like I’m floating around, with no anchor, no focal point.

So how do we find focus?

Leo Babauta, continue reading

How Do You Stop the Mind’s Chatter?

Book recommendation: André Gide on Sincerity, Being vs. Appearing, and What It Really Means to Be Yourself

“Don’t ever do anything through affectation or to make people like you or through imitation or for the pleasure of contradicting.” Read about this beautiful book here

The Infinite Hotel Paradox – Jeff Dekofsky

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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Who You Really Are – Alan Watts

YES, LIFE IS RISKY-DIVE IN ANYWAY

Life comes at us in waves. Sometimes the surge ripples gently by. Other times it can pound the daylights out of us and leave us gasping for breath. How do we respond when that happens? Read here

My Pursuit of the Art of Living

For many years I simply lived, and got by.

But in the last few years, after learning a bit about habits and mindfulness and simplicity and love, I have changed my approach to living.

Now I see living as an art form, to be studied and played with and practiced and mastered. Of course, few ever master the art of living, and I don’t know if I ever will. Probably not.

But I can pursue this art. I can appreciate it when others do it well. I can learn about it, through experiments and observation and introspection.

My pursuit of the art of living is only just beginning, but I thought I’d share a bit about this pursuit with you, my good friends.

Leo Babauta, continue reading

Performance-Based Goals vs. Getting Better Goals

It’s time for more straight talk today on goal setting. So let me ask you this: What IS your quota this year? How about your revenue goal? I’ll bet it hasn’t gone down. Interesting approach. Read it here

Fascinating! – Leonard Nimoy Reveals the Meaning of the Vulcan Hand Gesture

With Leonard Nimoy’s passing, many fitting tributes are showing up in various places to honor “Mr. Spock.” Many of the pictures of him show his hand raised in the “Vulcan greeting.”

But, few people know the origin of that now internationally famous hand gesture. In fact, many people would be shocked to learn the truth. Watch here

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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What the Bleep Do We Know: Down the Rabbit Hole

10 Misconceptions about Buddhism

In the new series 10 Misconceptions about Buddhism, scholars Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr. will expand on one of these popular misconceptions. Read the summary here

On Making It Through Tough Journeys

A reader wrote to me about a very tough journey he and his wife are setting out upon, and asked for some words of advice or motivation though this tough time.

Difficult times can be a test of our souls, and as such can be some of the most instructive times possible.

It’s easy to be happy and motivated when things are going well. But what happens when they fall apart, or unexpected troubles come your way, or things go exactly as you don’t want them to? What do you do then?

Leo Babauta. What else; continue reading

Emotions Finally Explained

There are internal emotions and external emotions. The difference is important (not only) in marketing, persuading, selling. Excellent article by Dr. Ing. LUCIANO BIONDO. Read it here

Freeing the Soul

Beautiful article by my good friend Linda. Read it here

Book Recommendation: Little Tree

An Uncommonly Beautiful and Subtle Japanese Pop-Up Book about the Cycle of Life. By Brainpicking

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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Follow Your Heart

Why Do We Search For More in Our Lives?

Is there a shift in the energy of the universe that is making people question this more than before? Is there a shift in me that I am hearing it more that I did? These are questions I have been pondering for a while.

Beautiful article by Hemla Makan-Dullabh; continue reading

The Calm Approach

When we are anxious, it’s because we want to be somewhere at a certain time (if we’re driving), or want something to happen the way we want it to happen (in the rest of life). But this deadline, this goal, this need … it’s entirely self created.

We create the need to be somewhere at a certain time. We create the need for things to turn out the way we want them to turn out. We create the desire for other people to act (or drive) the way we want them to act or drive.

We create our own anxiety. And so we have the keys to solve our own problems.

Leo Babauta at his best; continue reading

10 Habits Of People Who Follow Their Dreams

I like best # 9. They’ve learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable.

They don’t get stuck in having all the answers, making things perfect or trying to gain comfort by controlling everything. Instead, they’re aware that they’re not going to see the next step until they make the decision to move forward despite the discomfort.

Read all of them here

Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature

Book Recommendation: Me…Jane

How Jane Goodall Turned Her Childhood Dream into Reality: A Sweet Illustrated Story of Purpose and Deep DeterminationA heartening testament to the power of undivided intention.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

My Favorites February 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. Enjoy!

How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes (Tedx)

6 steps to creating your own mini-retreat

It probably won’t come as any surprise for me to tell you I’m a big believer in ‘retreating’ from your everyday life from time to time. While I run retreats a couple of times each year, it’s not something I do as often as I would like for myself. After finishing my book, I decided it was time for me to have a few days away on my own. I’m so pleased I did – already, after just one day, I’m starting to feel refreshed and I’m completely relaxed. So, I thought I’d share my tips for how you can create your own mini-retreat. Beautiful, practical article

Trying Not to Try

Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us similar stories about how we think. Profound article by Edward Slingerland, a professor of Asian studies and the Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at the University of British Columbia. Read it HERE

Is Life Predestined by Cosmic Will?

What’s Your “Why?”

Inspirational Leaders Have A Strong Sense Of Purpose.

If you think about it, you’re only going to follow someone if they clearly know where they’re going… and why.

In business, you know this to be true. Have you ever been stuck on a team with a “leader” who couldn’t clearly articulate why the group was doing what it did? Pretty hard to stay motivated. A team needs direction. A strong team of high-performers needs some direction, but more importantly, leading such a team requires inspiration. So any leader who aspires to the description of “inspiring” needs to start with a strong sense of purpose. On Leadership

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Dieter

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