My Favorites June 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 for helping you to live a meaningful life. Enjoy!

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

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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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

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

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What the Bleep Do We Know: Down the Rabbit Hole

10 Misconceptions about Buddhism

In the new series 10 Misconceptions about Buddhism, scholars Robert E. Buswell Jr. and Donald S. Lopez Jr. will expand on one of these popular misconceptions. Read the summary here

On Making It Through Tough Journeys

A reader wrote to me about a very tough journey he and his wife are setting out upon, and asked for some words of advice or motivation though this tough time.

Difficult times can be a test of our souls, and as such can be some of the most instructive times possible.

It’s easy to be happy and motivated when things are going well. But what happens when they fall apart, or unexpected troubles come your way, or things go exactly as you don’t want them to? What do you do then?

Leo Babauta. What else; continue reading

Emotions Finally Explained

There are internal emotions and external emotions. The difference is important (not only) in marketing, persuading, selling. Excellent article by Dr. Ing. LUCIANO BIONDO. Read it here

Freeing the Soul

Beautiful article by my good friend Linda. Read it here

Book Recommendation: Little Tree

An Uncommonly Beautiful and Subtle Japanese Pop-Up Book about the Cycle of Life. By Brainpicking

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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

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Follow Your Heart

Why Do We Search For More in Our Lives?

Is there a shift in the energy of the universe that is making people question this more than before? Is there a shift in me that I am hearing it more that I did? These are questions I have been pondering for a while.

Beautiful article by Hemla Makan-Dullabh; continue reading

The Calm Approach

When we are anxious, it’s because we want to be somewhere at a certain time (if we’re driving), or want something to happen the way we want it to happen (in the rest of life). But this deadline, this goal, this need … it’s entirely self created.

We create the need to be somewhere at a certain time. We create the need for things to turn out the way we want them to turn out. We create the desire for other people to act (or drive) the way we want them to act or drive.

We create our own anxiety. And so we have the keys to solve our own problems.

Leo Babauta at his best; continue reading

10 Habits Of People Who Follow Their Dreams

I like best # 9. They’ve learned to be comfortable being uncomfortable.

They don’t get stuck in having all the answers, making things perfect or trying to gain comfort by controlling everything. Instead, they’re aware that they’re not going to see the next step until they make the decision to move forward despite the discomfort.

Read all of them here

Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts is Mother Nature

Book Recommendation: Me…Jane

How Jane Goodall Turned Her Childhood Dream into Reality: A Sweet Illustrated Story of Purpose and Deep DeterminationA heartening testament to the power of undivided intention.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

The real meaning of life

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Came across one of the profoundest videos I’ve ever seen; enjoy!

Reinvention, change, holiday spirit & fun: My Favorites December 2014: 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!

If You Want to Change, Don’t Read This

There is a great scene in Godfather 2 where Kay (Diane Keaton) complains to husband Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) about his unfulfilled promise to make his business fully legit and quit being a mafioso. Michael responds that he is still working on it, reassuring Kay emphatically: “I’ll change, I’ll change – I’ve learned that I have the strength to change.”

Although most of us aren’t part of the mafia, we are still a bit like Michael Corleone in that we overestimate our capacity for change. In theory everyone can change, but in practice most people don’t… except for …. continue reading here

Is it time for a reinvention?

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again-and then expect different results.” (A.Einstein) Great Article!

How to Reinvent Yourself After 50

Reinvention after 50 is more than possible; it’s critical to keeping your skills fresh and your work fulfilling. Between staying current with social media, owning your history, reconnecting with old contacts, and shaking up the ossified view that current colleagues may have of you, you’ll soon be ready for the next chapter in your professional life. Harvard Business Review

The Fear of Being Alone

‘All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’ ~Blaise Pascal Leo Babauta at his best

New restaurant staffed with deaf waiters

New restaurant staffed with deaf waiters

17 Funny Christmas Quotes to Cheer You Up

“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.” – Dave Barry + 16 more

And if the holidays stress is still getting too much for you, try this:

Sesame Street: Common and Colbie Caillat – “Belly Breathe” with Elmo

Smile, breathe, and go slowly

Dieter

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My Favorites September 2014: 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!

Does Being Happy Make You More Successful?

Most people believe that being successful will lead to greater happiness and sense of fulfillment. This is most likely true. But it is also true, believe it or not, thathappiness can lead to greater productivity and increased success.

Don’t believe me? Then watch this video from Soulpancake’s “Science of Happiness” series. It’s super scientific…sort of.

The Science of Happiness – If You’re Happy and You Know It

And a more scientific approach on Success

Why do career “wins” often leave people feeling empty and dissatisfied? And – more important – how can you avoid that problem? Read Harvard Business Review’s What to Do When Success Feels Empty

And Seth Gordon’s take on Success

Most likely to succeed

“Succeed” is in the eye of the beholder…

Most likely to hit a home run

Most likely to please my boss

Most likely to do the work

Most likely to work for free

Most likely to stick it out

Most likely to change everything

Most likely to be trustworthy

Most likely to attract attention

Most likely to be invisible

Most likely to be worth it

There are many versions of most likely to succeed. When you’re looking for a gig or a client, the category you are placed in by those that choose is up to you. And no category = invisible.

On a different note: some pearls of wisdom

Mohandas Gandhi, when – allegedly – asked, “What do you think of Western Civilization?” replied, “I think it would be a good idea.”

In the same category: Chief Seattle’s “The Earth does not belong to man; man belongs to Earth.”

Finally, there is Einstein’s “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

Kudos Volkswagen

What a brilliant way to communicate how risky it is to use mobile phones while driving:

Volkswagen – Eyes on the road

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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