My Favorites: 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!

Let’s start with a wonderful story on the “Half empty or Half full?”question; it is such a great story so I have it here full length – and you don’t have to take a decision whether to click a link or not :-):

A Psychologist walked around a room while teaching Stress Management to an audience.

As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “Half empty or Half full” question.

Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired:

“How heavy is this glass of water?”

Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.

She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter.

It depends on how long I hold it.

If I hold it for a minute,

it’s not a problem.

If I hold it for an hour,

I’ll have an ache in my arm.

If I hold it for a day,

my arm will feel numb and paralyzed.

In each case,

the weight of the glass doesn’t change,

But

The longer I hold it,

the heavier it becomes.

She continued,

“The Stresses and Worries in Life , are like that Glass of Water…

Think about them for a while and nothing happens.

Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt.

And

If you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed –

incapable of doing anything….!!!”

Remember to put the Glass Down

My Advice for Starting a Business

Get started, my friends! You will love it.

Getting started, again

We started off the year with high hopes. We were going to find love! Start new jobs! Let go of old hurts! Now it’s time to do an evaluation.

Are you any closer? Do you have the sort of realistic conversations with yourself that are going to stop you from repeating the same old, same old? Or are you still back in 2013? Here are some ideas to help you get back on track.

How to be a time warrior

Choosing to be a time warrior gives you ways to leave linear modes of time management behind. It frees you up to enjoy going non-linear.

What Are You Hiding?

5 Actions for Creating Openness; by Mick Ukleja

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

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!

562 years ago, back in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci was born; the word “coffee” entered English in 1582 via Dutch koffie, borrowed from Turkish kahve, in turn borrowed from Arabic qahwa, a truncation of qahhwat al-bun ‘wine of the bean; and 1767 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island. So? Take the open mindedness of da Vinci, pour yourself a cup of coffee, imagine you are on Tahiti – and enjoy a relaxed reading!

The Antidote to Emptiness

We worship at the altar of “winners,” without recognizing that it sets up a zero-sum game in which the consequence must necessarily be a lot of “losers.” We undervalue qualities like humility, vulnerability, personal responsibility and compassion. The New York Times

Reflection is a two way street The famous Irish poet Oscar Wilde once said, “The final mystery is oneself.”But how do you unravel the mystery that is you? Use these 5 questions to guide your journey.

Letting Go of Judging People And incidentally, you will be a lot happier in the process

Make Your Work More Meaningful Since you have the ability to determine how you think about and respond to the conditions you experience, you do have control over the meaning you derive from work. Harvard Business Review

A Personal Challenge, do you have the guts to be honest with yourself? As I’ve gotten older, I find I’m more patient with people when they have good intentions and less patient with people when they don’t. I think it comes from doing my best and accepting my own flaws, and then being able to accept others more easily because of that. What’s a long term change you’ve realized about yourself?

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

PS: If you want to comment, ask a question or inquire how personal mentoring can be of help to you visit

www.langenecker.com/lifementoring.html

“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly.

But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.

Then very seldom do you come upon a space between

act and act when you may stop and simply be.

Or wonder who, after all, you are.”
-Ursula K LeGuin

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!

Is it spring yet (apologies if you live in the southern hemisphere)? Wake me when it’s here. Meanwhile, fill up your coffee mug and ready your clicker finger. I hope you’ll find these selections educational and broadening–but mainly that you’ll find them fun.

MARRIED OR NOT YOU SHOULD READ THIS…

Simply a “must read“

If You Could Do Life Over… When the top 5 regrets of the dying were listed, the number one was, “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself; not the life others expected of me.” Here Are 7 Ways to Make It Right

“But what if I fail?” You will. And then? (by Seth Godin)

The Flexible Mind Leo Babauta – at his best

The Mechanics of Human Suffering “You don’t have a mind of your own. Please look at it carefully. What you call as “my mind” is just society’s garbage bin.” Sadhguru looks at the mechanics and cause of human suffering, and provides a tool to move out of the “garbage bin” our mind is.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

PS: If you want to comment, ask a question or inquire how personal mentoring can be of help to you visit

www.langenecker.com/lifementoring.html

“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly.

But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.

Then very seldom do you come upon a space between

act and act when you may stop and simply be.

Or wonder who, after all, you are.”
-Ursula K LeGuin

My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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

I came across some really profound stuff: about Nelson Mandela, an 18 years old on a career path less traveled, 35 pictures that proof that the world isn’t such a bad place, things every (wo)man should own, and Activating the Life Purpose That’s Right Under Your Nose – so turn off any distractions and enjoy!

Boyd Varty: What I learned from Nelson Mandela

Simply a “must see”:

Letter to an 18-year-old on the Career Path Less Traveled
If you don’t want to be the typical Everyday Joe, in a 9-to-5 office job, don’t go the route that everybody else takes.

35 pictures that proof that the world isn’t such a bad place
Everything is NOT terrible.

Things every (wo)man should own
Clear, short, precise – typical Leo Babauta

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

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

PS: If you want to comment, ask a question or inquire how personal mentoring can be of help to you 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)

Today, some years ago:
Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death (399 A.D.), Galileo Galilei is born in Pisa, Italy (1564), and 2012 DA14, an asteroid with a 50m diameter, comes within 27,700km from Earth (2013); time – and comets – rush by.

Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

Posted on by DieterL

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

New year, new great stuff – in a slightly different form: instead of fortnightly issues with 3 recommended links it will be one monthly issue with some 5 links from now on. And some new features. Get yourself a cup of coffee or tea, and let’s begin.

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Some Big Ideas from Marcus Aurelius: the (Roman) Emperor – (Stoic) Philosopher and his classic book “Meditations.”

The Little Known Secret to Getting Things Done

I will not give it away, you will have to read it yourself 🙂

Living the Quiet Life
A pearl of wisdom

Stop Living in Fear
What fear does is it puts around you. It is because of fear that you build boundaries all the time. If you put boundaries and restrict the area of your life, you may be safe but the problem is you are safe even from life. You are protected from life itself
That is real protection!

Use Your Wild Card
“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Great article by Mick Ukleja from LeadershiptraQ

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

PS: If you want to comment, ask a question or inquire how personal mentoring can be of help to you 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)

Today, some years ago:

General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans (350 A.D.), Capt James Cook stumbles over Hawaiian Islands (1778), and Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35); time rushes by.

Great stuff I’ve found recently: The Most Popular In 2013

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Less than a week until this year is over. Time to reflect and look forward! The best of “Great Stuff I Have Found”. Enjoy!

Happier “You are one hundred and ten years old. A time machine has just been invented, and you are selected as one of the first people to use it. The inventor, a scientist from NASA, tells you that you will be transported back to the day when, as it happens, you first read Happier. You, with the wisdom of having lived and experienced life, have fifteen minutes to spend with your younger and less experienced self. What do you say when you meet? What advice do you give yourself?” ~ Tal Ben-Shahar from Happier

Follow Your Bliss…

Even When It’s Not Easy

Money Matters

…there is nothing right or wrong about money…It is just that if money does not stay in your pockets and goes into your head, misery will come. Money Matters

9 Qualities Of Truly Confident People Confidence is not bravado, or swagger, or an overt pretense of bravery. Confidence is not some bold or brash air of self-belief directed at others. Confidence is quiet: It is a natural expression of ability, expertise, and self-regard.

How to Live Happily?

Addressing a group of students and faculty at the IIT campus in Chennai, India, Sadhguru answers a question on how to maintain joy and happiness regardless of the external circumstances.

What it Really Takes to Succeed

by Jack Welch

Steve Jobs explains the rules for success

Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk from TEDxBloomington, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that … well. see for yourself :-); another “must see”!

Pause Pausing allows you to take a beat – to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite. Pause

Dr Wayne Dyer ~ “The Shift “

In a nutshell: must watch.

If you want to see another wonderful performance by Miyoko Shida watch this (make sure you stay until the end!!):

To Know Yourself: Why It Matters

Living with Wisdom

A Simple Change in Mindset Changes Everything

One of the best tricks I’ve learned to improve my likelihood of sticking to a habit is so simple it is sinful.

Another Steve Jobs gem

Giving The Best Advice On Success And Failure: This YouTube video is making the rounds again and for good reason. It’s less than two minutes long and it encapsulates one of the best bits of advice Steve Jobs ever offered on how to succeed.

And, keep in mind:

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt

Smile, breathe, go slowly and have a magnificent 2014!

Dieter Langenecker

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Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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It is probably the most hectic time of the year (and the most commercialized one as well, for that matter). Slow down, you (most likely) move too fast. It is time to absorb some wisdom and put things in perspective. Enjoy!

The Material and the Spiritual How can you separate the material and the spiritual? What we need to change is not the content of our life. We need to change the context of our life

Working with the Obstacles in Your Path

you should work with the obstacles instead of avoiding them – you learn from them.

Six little steps

A Simple Change in Mindset Changes Everything

One of the best tricks I’ve learned to improve my likelihood of sticking to a habit is so simple it is sinful.

Worst one ever

If you’re not willing to get your ‘worst one ever’ out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

Seth Godin

Deepak Chopra: What is the Purpose of Life?

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

Dieter Langenecker

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