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

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

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Dieter Langenecker

My Favorites September 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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Why So Many of Us Experience a Midlife Crisis

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 HBR article. Read it here

5 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR ENERGY

Beautiful article by Kate James, read it here

Sadhguru: Is Suffering Inevitable?

4 Things Good Listeners Do
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say. Read this practical article here

How Do You Know You Exist?

A Mind-Bending Animated Homage to Descartes Exploring the Conundrum of Reality. Brainpickings

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

My Favorites August 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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Why Do We Search For More in Our Lives?

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

My Favorites June 2015: Great Stuff I’ve Found Recently

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4 Questions to Help You Find Your Passion

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. Article by H. Lovelyn Bettison. Read it here

Finding Focus

Do you ever have one of those days when you just can’t seem to find focus? When you fritter away your time on nothingnesses, distractions, wandering without really doing something important?

Or one of those weeks?

I have those days regularly. I can find myself “working” for several hours, but at the end of those several hours have nothing to show for it. I feel like I’m floating around, with no anchor, no focal point.

So how do we find focus?

Leo Babauta, continue reading

How Do You Stop the Mind’s Chatter?

Book recommendation: André Gide on Sincerity, Being vs. Appearing, and What It Really Means to Be Yourself

“Don’t ever do anything through affectation or to make people like you or through imitation or for the pleasure of contradicting.” Read about this beautiful book here

The Infinite Hotel Paradox – Jeff Dekofsky

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Dieter

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My Favorites February 2015: 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!

How to know your life purpose in 5 minutes (Tedx)

6 steps to creating your own mini-retreat

It probably won’t come as any surprise for me to tell you I’m a big believer in ‘retreating’ from your everyday life from time to time. While I run retreats a couple of times each year, it’s not something I do as often as I would like for myself. After finishing my book, I decided it was time for me to have a few days away on my own. I’m so pleased I did – already, after just one day, I’m starting to feel refreshed and I’m completely relaxed. So, I thought I’d share my tips for how you can create your own mini-retreat. Beautiful, practical article

Trying Not to Try

Modern science and Chinese philosophy tell us similar stories about how we think. Profound article by Edward Slingerland, a professor of Asian studies and the Canada Research Chair in Chinese Thought and Embodied Cognition at the University of British Columbia. Read it HERE

Is Life Predestined by Cosmic Will?

What’s Your “Why?”

Inspirational Leaders Have A Strong Sense Of Purpose.

If you think about it, you’re only going to follow someone if they clearly know where they’re going… and why.

In business, you know this to be true. Have you ever been stuck on a team with a “leader” who couldn’t clearly articulate why the group was doing what it did? Pretty hard to stay motivated. A team needs direction. A strong team of high-performers needs some direction, but more importantly, leading such a team requires inspiration. So any leader who aspires to the description of “inspiring” needs to start with a strong sense of purpose. On Leadership

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Dieter

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