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

ReThink – Towards Ethical Paradigms

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“What is my job on the planet?” is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else’s job and not even know it. ”

Warmly,

Dieter Langenecker

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Capitalism Explained :-)

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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

ReThink February Towards Ethical Paradigms: Tuesdays with Morrie

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Part of the problem is that everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. ….. So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

From: Tuesdays with Morrie

Warmly,
Dieter

Questions of Priority

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Of all the things you’re working on right now, or hope to work on soon … which is the single most important?

What’s your priority?

Now let me ask you these two simple questions:

When you start work, do you start with your most important priority first? If not, when does it come up during your work day?
How much of your working time is spent on your priority?

If the order of your work, and the time you spend on your work, doesn’t align with your top priority … how can you change that?

It’s just as important to ask these questions about your non-work time: what’s your top non-work priority? Do you do it first in your non-work time? How much of your non-work time do you spend on it?

It’s worthwhile to pause regularly and ask these questions, perhaps weekly or monthly. And then take action to align your life with what matters. (Thank you, Leo Babauta)

With kind regards,

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

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

ReThink – Towards Ethical Paradigms

Capitalism Explained :-)

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

ReThink February Towards Ethical Paradigms: Tuesdays with Morrie

Questions of Priority

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