April | 2014 | Dieter Langenecker Purpose Counseling & LifeMentoring

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!

562 years ago, back in 1452, Leonardo da Vinci was born; the word “coffee” entered English in 1582 via Dutch koffie, borrowed from Turkish kahve, in turn borrowed from Arabic qahwa, a truncation of qahhwat al-bun ‘wine of the bean; and 1767 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island. So? Take the open mindedness of da Vinci, pour yourself a cup of coffee, imagine you are on Tahiti – and enjoy a relaxed reading!

The Antidote to Emptiness

We worship at the altar of “winners,” without recognizing that it sets up a zero-sum game in which the consequence must necessarily be a lot of “losers.” We undervalue qualities like humility, vulnerability, personal responsibility and compassion. The New York Times

Reflection is a two way street The famous Irish poet Oscar Wilde once said, “The final mystery is oneself.”But how do you unravel the mystery that is you? Use these 5 questions to guide your journey.

Letting Go of Judging People And incidentally, you will be a lot happier in the process

Make Your Work More Meaningful Since you have the ability to determine how you think about and respond to the conditions you experience, you do have control over the meaning you derive from work. Harvard Business Review

A Personal Challenge, do you have the guts to be honest with yourself? As I’ve gotten older, I find I’m more patient with people when they have good intentions and less patient with people when they don’t. I think it comes from doing my best and accepting my own flaws, and then being able to accept others more easily because of that. What’s a long term change you’ve realized about yourself?

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

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“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly.

But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.

Then very seldom do you come upon a space between

act and act when you may stop and simply be.

Or wonder who, after all, you are.”
-Ursula K LeGuin

You cannot have sustainable growth and sustainable success, if you don’t have a sustainable planet.

The general aspiration is the whole world wants to live like the United States of America. According to Living Earth statistics, if the whole world has to live like an average citizen in United States does, we need four-and-a-half planets. But we have only one. We have only one and we need four-and-a-half, if we want to succeed. So, somewhere we should pray for failure ? Which is not a good thing!

So we have to redefine what enterprise is, we have to redefine success; we have to redefine what we call moving forward. If we call moving backward as moving forward, we’re asking for trouble. So, yes, we want everybody to succeed. But it is also important, because we are hugely, hugely empowered like never before, no other generation has been as empowered as we are today. We have to redefine success.

Otherwise, we’ll pay a very high price if we succeed.

Your thoughts?

Smile, breathe, and go slowly!

Dieter

PS: If you want to comment, ask a question or inquire how personal mentoring can help you to live a meaningful life visit www.langenecker.com/lifementoring.html

The yardstick of success is not measured by fame and wealth;

it is measured by your level of understanding of

who you are, why you are here

and where are you going from here. (Tulshi Sen)

Dieter Langenecker Purpose Counseling & LifeMentoring

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