For long winter evenings (if you live in the southern hemisphere watch it anyway) a long, profound and eye-opening video on Century of Self:
Warmly,
Dieter Langenecker
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Category Archives: meaning
My Favorites December 2015: 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 for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!
7 Powerful Questions for Discerning Your Purpose
Each of us has a distinctly individual purpose for our talents and gifts. But sometimes we stand at a crossroads, wondering which way is the best way for making use of all that we are and have to offer. Here are seven powerful questions to ask when trying to discern your very unique purpose
The Calm Approach
Leo Babauta at his best. Read it here
Why You Should Call a Timeout Every Day
Annual vacations, sick days, and even weekends are not enough of a respite from the busy world. While reducing busyness may be the long-term goal, immediately you need to call a timeout every day to focus on things that … continue reading
Annual vacations, sick days, and even weekends are not enough of a respite from the busy world. While reducing busyness may be the long-term goal, immediately you need to call a timeout every day to focus on things that … continue reading
How To Let Go Of Suffering
People tend to think that if they satisfy their desires, then they will be happier. They think,if my kids behave a certain way, then I’ll be happy. If I don’t lose my patience, then I’ll be happy. If I can do something really new and interesting, then I’ll be happy.
But satisfying desires never makes you happy, at least not for very long. Yes, it will feel good for a little bit, but ultimately it won’t solve the problem of suffering.
Smile, breathe, and go slowly!
Dieter
My Favorites November 2015: 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 for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!
HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN LUCK
LUCK-IN BUSINESS AND IN LIFE-ISN’T ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOU, IT’S ALSO SOMETHING YOU CAN FIND AND HELP CREATE. Read it here
Letting Go of Wishing Things Were Different
One of the hardest things to let go of is the way we want things to be. We have fantasies of how our lives could be like, what we could be like as people, what other people should be like, what the world should be like. These are fantasies, but we rarely recognize them as such. And so it’s hard to let them go, because we want them so.
(Leo Babauta) Read it here
6 Little Money Mindset Shifts That Pay Off Huge
Just in time before the festive season: Marie Forleo
Just in time before the festive season: Marie Forleo
A Zen Master Explains Death and the Life-Force to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind Brainpickings
Smile, breathe, and go slowly!
Dieter
My Favorites October 2015: 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 for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!
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 To the life purpose under your nose…. Read it here
Surrender, Mindfulness & Entrepreneurship
Running a business often is about sales, revenue, marketing, and the bottom line. But it can have soul too. In my new Habits of Entrepreneurs video interview series, I’ve recently published two fantastic interviews with entrepreneurs who do things differently.
And they’re incredibly successful at doing things this way. (Leo Babauta) Read it here
A Six-Year-Old’s Advice on Life and Overcoming Fear, Turned into a Heartwarming Movie
Why thinking about pizza can be a potent form of cognitive-behavioral therapy for self-doubt. Read this brain picking here
Why thinking about pizza can be a potent form of cognitive-behavioral therapy for self-doubt. Read this brain picking here
Know Yourself. Wait, what does that even mean?
Know yourself means four things. Charles H Green
Smile, breathe, and go slowly!
Dieter
My Favorites August 2015: 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 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
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My Favorites May 2015: 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 for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!
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