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!

 

25 Ways to Simplify Your Life in 10 Minutes or Less
While we’ve established that simplicity is a practice and not a destination, there are practical things you can do every day to simplify your life. And the good news is, there are practical things you can do quickly. Read’em here

 

 

 

Help Your Employees Find Flow

HolacracyResults-Only Work Environments. These new, more flexible ways of working may be a step too far for many organizations. Still, greater employee freedom can create a better sense of “flow,” which enhances engagement, retention, and performance. This can be achieved by loosening your grip on work practices – but you don’t have to let go completely: remove obstacles, set boundaries and meaningful goals, then let work take its course. Interesting article in the Harvard Business Review

 

 

Eckhart Tolle: The Deeper Dimensions of Stillness

 

And for laughs: Hilarious SWA flight attendant 

Hilarious SWA flight attendant

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Dieter Langenecker
Dieter

 

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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
Dieter Langenecker
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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.

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Dieter Langenecker  
Dieter Langenecker
 
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