How can I be happy, EI, Resilience, and some – My Favorites January 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. Enjoy!

 

“How can I be happy?” Narrated by Stephen Fry – That’s Humanism!

 

  

 

6 Mindsets That Will Boost Your Vitality
How many times have you heard the statement, “people have a natural resistance to change?” Is that true? Dig a little deeper and you might discover resistance to change is just the symptom. People have a natural resistance to feeling incompetent. Humiliation is a deep fear we all possess. We don’t want to feel or look incompetent and change has the potential to activate that feeling. (MICK UKLEJA) Read HERE

 

Ignore Emotional Intelligence at Your Own Risk                                                          Call it Grant vs. Goleman. Two academic heavyweights face off on a topic that every student of leadership and HR cares – or at least hears – a lot about: emotional intelligence. Wharton professor Adam Grant kicks it off with a LinkedIn blog post, “Emotional Intelligence Is Overrated,” arguing that “it’s a mistake to base hiring or promotion decisions on it” and that “even in emotionally demanding work, when it comes to job performance, cognitive ability still proves more consequential than emotional intelligence.” Daniel Goleman, the psychologist credited with coining the term EI (and, full disclosure, a friend), issues his rebuttal, “Let’s Not Underrate Emotional Intelligence,” questioning the specific assessment of EI used by Grant, and referring to the various studies conducted by “The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence.” And the comments fly. Harvard Business Review

 

How to develop extreme resilience (Prof.Rao)

 

20 Signs You’re Succeeding In Life Even If You Don’t Feel You Are                         We all feel like failures from time to time. While this is a normal feeling, you have to find a way to see yourself and your life from a different perspective. Sometimes we ignore the “little things.” Just because you are not a millionaire, don’t live in a mansion, and you don’t drive a fancy car, that doesn’t mean you’re a failure. In fact, it’s quite the contrary. Here are 20 signs that you are succeeding in life

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter Langenecker
Dieter

 

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My Favorites November 2014: 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! 

 

Is Your Ego Your Servant or Your Master?

Everyone talks about the ego: ego trips, healthy ego, negative ego, big ego, get rid of your ego, even kill your ego. But what is the ego? Is there such a thing? Or is the ego just a version of our hyper-inflated need for security in a world of apparent threats? Great article,  read it here

 

 

To Simplify Is To Amplify

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” -Leonardo Da Vinci
We immerse ourselves in a fast paced schedule and make life complicated.  When we focus on what’s important, we take complicated things and make them simple.  This simplification leads to the amplification of what we truly value. ... continue reading

                                                     

 

Use the Power of Meditation to Create Wholeness in Your Life

I meet a great many people who come to me with the desire for change. Many are in the throes of decisions regarding health, business and/or relationships and most are in distress as to how to handle what is coming their way. My first question to these people used to be “Do you meditate?” but I have come to know that chances are good that they are in distress because they don’t. So, instead, my question becomes: “You don’t meditate, do you?” And when they say “no,” I begin to share with them the light of mindfulness.

 

   

Zen Mountain: Leave It All Behind

“What day is it?”
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.
“My favorite day,” said Pooh.

Last weekend I spent nearly four days leading a retreat, at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. To get to this Zen center, you make a journey through a twisting bumpy rising falling mountainroad, and then you’ve arrived.

And what a place to arrive at! It’s a place of peace, with a silently gushing river, people meditating all the time, everyone walking slowly, no distractions, constant gratitude and mindfulness. A beautiful place of peace.

As I contemplated the peace of leaving it all behind, I wondered why we need a place in the mountains for this kind of peace. continue reading here

The Secret of Happiness – Alan Watts 

The Secret of Happiness - Alan Watts
The Secret of Happiness – Alan Watts

 Zen Buddhism on Meditation Movie

Zen Buddhism on Meditation Movie
Zen Buddhism on Meditation Movie

 

And if you want to learn a little bit more about meditation visit  MeditationSpirituality

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

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! 

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 Langenecker
Dieter

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