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It’s halftime whistle for 2014. And as always at this time of the year – the most inspiring, profound and interesting articles, videos, quotes, etc. I’ve found this year so far. Enjoy!

The future of our civilization is based on prudence, critical self reflection, belief in higher values, and wisdom in matters of ordinary, everyday life. It is not about grabbing as much as possible, as quickly as possible. — Tyler Cowen, Economist

Life Lessons by Dr.Suneel Sethi

As we move from winters to spring and from spring to summers, I sit down to memorise the life lessons learnt during all the seasons of my life passed, to be used in the present and future .A recollection of these lessons I share with you here will provide you with a platform to start the journey of self development and improvement with me and some great ideas to ponder about. As you read along the list of suggestions and my life lessons, I hope you, too, would be on fire with focus, passion and outright excellence. Here are some of the life lessons I learnt during the various seasons of my life.

One World: Arianna Huffington on Viewing Life with a Wider Lens

So often in modern society, we look at success as being defined narrowly as attaining money and power. Particularly in the business world, there is a tendency to forget that there should be other measures of success including health, well-being, empathy and morality. These are the things that make up the Third Metric and there is a move by many in the business world to ensure that more emphasis is places on these things. Arianna Huffington is one business leader who is speaking passionately about this move.

Attraction

Attraction are a Hungarian theatre group, with a unique act of creating pictures with shadows of their bodies. Hear we see them performing to the track “Read All About It” by Emeli Sande, in the first week of auditions of Britain’s Got Talent. A must watch!

Why can’t we do that?

The Orangutan and the Hound Dog

Fear is the Root of Your Problems

Every problem you or I have (and they are many, small and large), is rooted in fear. For some, that might seem obvious: the question is how to beat the fears. For others, it’s not so self-evident: why are my financial or relationship or procrastination problems caused by fear? Let us tackle both questions – the Why and the How.

Let me know if you liked it!

Smile, breathe and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker

PS: If you want to know how to become a social entrepreneur or how to live a meaningful life in general get in touch with me

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!

Greetings!

Today I want to present to you two relatively young and one very old concept of how to tackle today’s challenges:

Social entrepreneurship – the new heroes?

Social entrepreneurship is the process of pursuing innovative solutions to social problems. More specifically, social entrepreneurs adopt a mission to create and sustain social value. They pursue opportunities to serve this mission, while continuously adapting and learning. They draw upon appropriate thinking in both the business and nonprofit worlds and operate in all kinds of organizations: large and small; new and old; religious and secular; nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid.

Inspirational Keynotes for your next clients- or company event

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“Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward.Inspiration is an internal, sustainable glow which *pulls* you forward.”

(Thomas Leonard)

So, you are organizing an important conference or event and you are looking for an excellent speaker? Someone who is able to move your people to a new lasting energy-level with practical and inspirational strategies? And maybe even for a multi-cultural audience? And all of this in both a profound as well as entertaining way?If these are your requirements I can inspire and inform your audience with either a bespoke presentation geared to your specific needs, or one of my core keynote presentations.

Most requested topics

You are more than you think you are
Putting People First
Future Search: Finding Common Ground in Organizations

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The future of our civilization is based on prudence, critical self reflection, belief in higher values, and wisdom in matters of ordinary, everyday life. It is not about grabbing as much as possible, as quickly as possible. — Tyler Cowen, Economist

Nothing to add.

Smile, breathe and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker

PS: If you want to know how to become a social entrepreneur or how to live a meaningful life in general get in touch with me

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

Empty your cup

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A university professor visited Zen master Nan-in to inquire about Zen. But instead of listening to the master, the scholar kept going on and on about his own ideas.

After listening for some time, Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and kept on pouring. The tea flowed over the sides of the cup, filled the saucer, spilled onto the man’s pants and onto the floor.

“Don’t you see the cup is full?” the professor exploded. “You can’t get any more in!”

“Just so,” replied Nan-in calmly. “And like this cup, you are full of your own ideas and opinions. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”

Emptying the cup means making room for Great Questions. It means being open, reconditioning ourselves, so that we can accept, for the time being, not knowing. Out of that a greater knowing will dawn.

And this applies especially for a clear-cut answer to “What is the meaning and purpose of my life?”. The answer to Great Questions like this can only emerge from the journey of living. And we can only arrive at it by the road of not-knowing – or maybe we should say, not-yet-knowing.

Sometimes life doesn’t provide the answers right away. But asking the right questions is the first step.

Your take?

Smile, breathe and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker

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!

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

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The Best

My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

Inspirational Keynotes for your next clients- or company event

Nothing to add

My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

Empty your cup

My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently