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April 17, 2016
Helping Others Is Good For You
Sheryl WuDunn explains the complex worlds of charitable giving, volu[image error]nteering, and altruism. WuDunn is the co-author of A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunities.
The world of philanthropy and charities is in its infancy, it’s sort of like an infant industry. Certainly it’s been around for a while and there are some very prominent philanthropists who have been known for a century or more, but I think what’s important to understand is as the industry develops there’s going to...
Mindfulness Can Help You Change Unwanted Habits
Bad habits can take a hefty toll on your health and happiness. In Th[image error]e Here-and-Now Habit, mindfulness expert Hugh Byrne provides powerful practices based in mindfulness and neuroscience to help you rewire your brain and finally break the habits that are holding you back from a meaningful life.
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Almost half of our actions are habitual in nature: performed in an automatic way and activated by contextual cues rather than conscious intention. Habits help us simplify and orga...
April 14, 2016
LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Be An Expert
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Grand Finales: Tips for Writing Great Endings of Novels | LIVE WRITE THRIVE
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Writing a great ending for your book is just as important as a dynamite opening that rivets our attention and compels us to keep turning those pages.
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Today we are exploring one of the most popular masterplots of all time: The Love Story. And even if you’re not writing a full-on romance, most stor...
April 13, 2016
Failing in Business Isn’t Even Failing — It’s Gaining Life Experience
Taking risks in business means that sometimes you will fail, says AOL cofounder Steve Case, author of The Third Wave: An entrepreneur’s vision of the future.[image error][image error]
Experimentation is the essence of progress, whether it’s in the sciences or in business, and most major social achievements are a result of a big ideas realized through countless small experiments. In America’s quest to land a man on the moon, for example, committing small mistakes along the way was the only path toward success.
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Listening With Your Body, Your Voice, And Your Mind
Powerful Listening was written for you. Listening is the most powerful to[image error]ol for success in business and in life. So if it’s that important, why don’t we listen better?
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There is more to listening than just hearing. We hear even when we’re asleep, but we often fail to listen when we’re fully awake. There’s an old saying, ‘Most people tend to be hard of listening rather than hard of hearing.’
Listening requires focusing on what we’re hearing.
The anatomy of skillful liste...
April 12, 2016
5 Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain
“Is Google making us stupid?”[image error]
When Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows, posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?
Your social media habits may be changing your brain and your behaviors.
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With social media sites being used by 1/3 of...
The First Thing You Must Do Before You Can Be Happy
What’s the formula for a happy life?
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Neil Pasricha, author of The Happiness Equation, unlocked the secrets to happiness.Each secret takes a common ideal, flips it on its head, and casts it in a completely new light. Pasricha then goes a step further by providing step-by-step guidelines and hand-drawn scribbles that illustrate exactly how to apply each secret to live a happier life today.
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The single biggest reason it’s so hard to be happy
Shakespeare says, “For there is nothing either go...
April 11, 2016
Want To Master The Art Of Writing Novels?
“Pay attention to people’s lives,” explains Nobel Prize-winning author O[image error]rhan Pamuk, author of A Strangeness in my mind. Then don’t be afraid to write and rewrite and edit and re-edit and re-rewrite and so on.[image error]
Other people can learn from a writer’s life many things because writer’s lives are so different. Some are possessed with something that comes from outside; some are possessed with their visions. Likes of me are different.
I work like a clerk and then also my books are more like frescoe...
Self-Sabotage In The Path Of Oola
[image error][image error]Oola is not your typical self-help book. Oola reads more like a collection of kick-butt anecdotes and sincere stories that just happen to have meaningful messages. Co-authors Dave Braun (The OolaSeeker) and Troy Amdahl (The OolaGuru) have been there and done that.
Oola (n).-That state of awesomeness.It is when your life is balanced and growing in the seven key areas of life; the 7 F’s of Oola (Fitness, Finance, Family, Field, Faith, Friends, and Fun).
When your life is In Oola, you’re in th...
April 10, 2016
Who We Can Love
Happiness is a loaded term that means different things to different peopl
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e. To some, it might mean life satisfaction, to others, a fleeting moment of joy. Rather than seeking to be happy, Oliver James encourages us to cultivate our emotional health [image error]An emotional health lesson told by The School Of Life.
One of the strangest things about relationships is that we’re not free tofeel attracted to just anyone. We tend to have very strong psychological typesthat we can’t deviate from. All of us...
