Then it will really be a good day

A Moving Art original. This inspirational video was well responded at TED conferences, and filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg motivates those around him as happiness is revealed. Spoken word and music montage created and composed by Gary Malkin. Narration written and spoken by Brother David Steindl-Rast.

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Dieter Langenecker
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My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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!

 

Seth Gordon not only looks different, more importantly he also thinks differently

   

The generosity boomerang

Here’s conventional wisdom:

Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous.

In fact, it actually works like this:

Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

 

It’s a compelling headline: Stop Trusting Yourself.  By Northeastern University psychologist David DeSteno, it’s featured in today’s NYTimes, and ostensibly shows that we mistakenly trust ourselves – that if anything, we mis-estimate our own trustworthiness more than that of others. Read this profound article by Charles H.Green

 

 
The Dreaded Curse of Comparison
Of all the lessons there are to learn in life, one stands out for me.  What is that lesson?  It’s learning to be myself. Read on.

 

   
   
 
 
Is Your Life A Super Highway or a Garden Path?

So many of us feel like our lives are a race – a dash. We are sprinting through the events of our lives to get them “all done.” We have amazing to-do lists; we are compelled to achieve and accomplish; society says this is how we get ahead. We pride ourselves on being so productive.

But what if, instead, the value of life were not in the dash and amount of things we do, but in the quality of life’s events – in the time we spend enjoying, connecting and becoming part of what we do? What if life were more like a garden path than a superhighway?

  

  

If you’re living in the northern hemisphere, and therefore – most likely/hopefully (you choose) – about to go on holidays, here are some book recommendations.

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Dieter Langenecker
Dieter

 

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The Best

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
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!
 
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Dieter Langenecker  
Dieter Langenecker
 
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My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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.
Read more at:
and watch
Tim Kelley interviews Rich Tafel about Social Entrepreneurship
Sociocracy
Sociocracy is a system of governance, using consent-based decision making among equivalent individuals and an organizational structure based on cybernetic principles. The most recent implementation of sociocracy by Gerard Endenburg, also known as Circular Organizing, was developed as a new tool for governance of private enterprise, but has been adopted in many different kinds of organizations including public, private, non-profit and community organizations as well as professional associations.
Read more at

  

Vipassana

Far from some fluffy-pillowed-tropical-fruit-filled-yoga-on-the-beach type of retreat, the 10-day vipassana silent meditation retreat pushes you to your limits. It’s not a getaway or a vacation; instead, it’s an opportunity to work hard and reap the rewards of a clearer mind and higher levels of consciousness.

Read more at What I Learned From A Hardcore 10-Day Meditation Retreat

 

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Dieter Langenecker
Dieter

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My Favorites: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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

 

 

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Dieter Langenecker
Dieter

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Empty your cup

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?

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Redefining Success

You cannot have sustainable growth and sustainable success, if you don’t have a sustainable planet.

 

The general aspiration is the whole world wants to live like the United States of America. According to Living Earth statistics, if the whole world has to live like an average citizen in United States does, we need four-and-a-half planets. But we have only one. We have only one and we need four-and-a-half, if we want to succeed. So, somewhere we should pray for failure ? Which is not a good thing!

 

So we have to redefine what enterprise is, we have to redefine success; we have to redefine what we call moving forward. If we call moving backward as moving forward, we’re asking for trouble. So, yes, we want everybody to succeed. But it is also important, because we are hugely, hugely empowered like never before, no other generation has been as empowered as we are today. We have to redefine success.

 

Otherwise, we’ll pay a very high price if we succeed.

 

Your thoughts?

 

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker
Dieter

 

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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)

 

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