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July 11, 2016
The Revolutionary Art Of Happiness
In this inspiring book, Lovingkindness, Sharon Salzberg, one of America’s leading spiritual t[image error]eachers, shows us how the Buddhist path of lovingkindness can help us discover the radiant, joyful heart within each of us.
Where to find happiness
We can travel a long way and do many different things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. It is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home. True happiness may not be at al...
July 10, 2016
So Why Don’t You Have Your Dream Job Yet?
It is incredibly difficult to get a job these days. Everyone is looking, feels like few are hirin[image error]g. College graduates coming out in the next few years are the children of the recession, who know full well that no job is guaranteed and no job is forever. So these graduates are likely to work at at approximately 15-20 companies, rather than just one, over the course of the years.
According to James Citrin (senior director of Spencer Stuart’s North American Board & CEO Practice and author of si...
The Four Purposes Of Life
The Four Purposes of Life was born from Dan Millman’s decades-long search to make sense o[image error]f life. He distills decades of experience into a concise map of the journey — the full scope of what we’re each here to accomplish here on planet Earth.
What do I want?
With the pace of life accelerating, in a world of change, it’s not easy to maintain our balance and sense of direction. Yet we strive to do so, because a sense of direction, toward a meaningful goal, may be the better part of happiness....
July 7, 2016
LinkFest ~ Best Reads On Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Don’t Answer The Phone
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12 Questions to ask your character about the setting she is in| LIVE WRITE THRIVE Ce[image error]rtain places will trigger these things to come to the surface and will stir memories. Your character has a past, and even if she never visits any of the places in her past in your novel, other places can draw out feelings and memories. This happens to us all the time.
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July 6, 2016
Philip Zimbardo on the Two Types of Heroes
A few years ago, Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect, founded the Heroic [image error]Imagination Project, a non-profit organization that harnesses the findings of social psychology to help regular people “transform negative situations and create positive change.” Here Zimbardo muses on the two kinds of heroes: the impulsive reactive and the reflective proactive.
Greetings. I’m Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Stanford University where I taught for more than 40 years. And now I’m...
Thought Cannot Cultivate Love
On Love and Lonliness is a compelling investigation of our intimate relationships with ourselves, others, and society. Krishnamurti suggests that “true relationship” can come into being[image error] only when there is self-knowledge of the conditions which divide and islolate individuals and groups. Only by renouncing the self can we understand the problem of lonliness, and truly love.
We live in relationship.
Relationship is not an abstraction, it is a daily, everyday fact. Whether you go to the office...
July 5, 2016
Does Technological Change Unify the World, or Pitt Us Against Each Other?
is a new age of industrial revolution. New inventions have come out that a[image error]re straight from the imaginations of science fiction writers. Phones that are small computers, computers that are flat and thin as a pancake. Television shows are stored on our phones too, and new vaccines come out for each type of flu strain that evolves. It’s a fantastic era of innovation, with new ways to communicate over vast lanes of social media. As Mark Fischbach aka YouTube personality Markiplier has stated, “T...
Everyday Habits and Exercises to Build Self-Discipline and Achieve Your Goals
Just one of these decisions can alter the course of a person’s life. What if yo[image error]u decided to master all seven?
One: The Responsible Decision
The buck stops here. I accept responsability for my past. I am responsible for my success. I will not let my history control my destiny.
The Responsible Decision shows us how to stop blaming other people and outside circumstances for where we are in life. instead, we can chart our life’s course, allowing our lives to become testaments to the true power...
July 4, 2016
5 Steps You Can Start Taking to Achieve Mindfulness and Enlightenment
According to Andrew Newberg, director of research at Jefferson Myrna [image error]Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, there are a mere five steps to reaching enlightenment. This is something he’s studied, using 250 brain scans of people during prayer and meditation. With this research, Newberg has come up with a more practical way to help people find their own style of prayer and meditation, their customized path towards enlightenment.
The first step is pretty obvious – deciding to start the journey. M...
Is Adventure For You? Finding The Quest That Will Bring Purpose To Your Life
A remarkable book that will both guide and inspire, The Happiness of P[image error]ursuit reveals how anyone can bring meaning into their life by undertaking a quest.
We choose to embrace a quest. We choose to embrace an adventure.
We live in interesting times, a remarkable age that offers countless opportunities for personal growth and advancement. As busy as we all are, most of us still have enough free time to pursue hobbies and the development of nonessential skills. For the price of a plane ticket,...
