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November 6 - November 20, 2017
The dips contain amazing learnings and wisdom that lead to sharper rises in the quality of life afterward.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Pygmalion Effect,
Rewrite your models of reality.
We all possess human intuition.
week. Pay someone a compliment about his or her work every day. Or take Richard Branson’s advice. He said: “I
of letting your staff have the occasional blast at an after-hours get-together is a hugely important ingredient in the mix that makes for a family atmosphere and a fun-loving, free-spirited corporate culture. It also goes a long way to tearing down any semblance of hierarchy
Humanism is the idea that we do not need religion in order to be good. It differs from atheism in the sense that humanists believe that there is a “God,” but He’s certainly not the judgmental, angry being that many religious texts make Him out to be. Instead, to a humanist, “God” might be the universe, or the connectedness of life on Earth, or spirit. Humanism is opening up a new spiritual path for people who want to reject the Brules of religion but who don’t embrace atheism.
How do you define love? What do you expect from a love relationship, both to receive and to give? Do you believe love brings hurt? Do you believe love can endure? Do you believe you have the capacity to love greatly? Do you believe you deserve to be loved and treasured?
YOUR FRIENDSHIPS.
How do you define friendship? Do you believe that friendships can be long lasting? Do you believe your friends take more from you than they give? Do you believe making friends is easy or hard?
YOUR ADVENTURES.
What’s your idea of an adventure? Is it about travel? Physical activity? Art and culture? Urban or rural sights and sounds?
Are you making time and space for adventure in your life? Do you believe you need to save for retirement before taking a long trip? Would you feel guilty if you left your job or your family to take a holiday by yourself? Do you think that sp...
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YOUR ENVIRONMENT. Where do you feel happiest? Are you content with where and how you live? How do you define “home”? What aspects of your environment are most important to you (colors, sounds, type of furniture, proximity to nature or culture, neatness, level of convenience/luxury items, etc.)? Do you believe you deserve a gorgeou...
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“Richard, you’ve started eight different companies in eight different industries and taken all of them to a billion dollars. That’s huge. If you could summarize in one sentence how you did it, what would you say?” Richard didn’t blink. He answered immediately like a wise, kind sage. Here’s what he said: It’s all about finding and hiring people smarter than you, getting them to join your business and giving them good work, then getting out of the way and trusting them. You have to get out of the way so you can focus on the bigger vision. That’s important, but here is the main thing: You must
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The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz, PhD.
The Virgin Diet by JJ Virgin,
courses by Jim Kwik.
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda,
The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz.
Arianna Huffington in 2014, just when her book Thrive was coming out.
Blissipline: the discipline of daily bliss.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. —ALAN WATTS, ZEN PHILOSOPHER
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Be happy now.
Have big goals—but don’t tie your happiness to your goals. You must be happy before you attain them.
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I was early taught to work as well as play, My life has been one long, happy holiday; Full of work and full of play— I dropped the worry on the way— And God was good to me every day. That titan was John D. Rockefeller, who wrote the poem at age eighty-six.
We shouldn’t do things so we can be happy. We should be happy so we can do things.
Martin Seligman, PhD, a pioneer in the field of positive psychology and author of Learned Optimism, screened 15,000 newly hired salespeople
Seligman found that the power of optimism held in other professions, too. He concluded that in general, optimistic salespeople performed an impressive 20 to 40 percent better than pessimistic salespeople.
happiness from growth and awakening.
comes from reaching higher states of consciousness.
Opportunities to find unique experiences, growth and awakening, and meaning are always around us.
Blissipline System 1: The Power of Gratitude
five things they were thankful for from the previous week
we look backward—to the past—and appreciate how far we’ve come.
I believe every day should begin and end with gratitude. I practice it every day in my morning meditation. Each morning, focusing on the reverse gap, I think of five things I’m grateful for in my personal life. Then I think of five things I’m grateful for in my work and career. A typical list might look like this: PERSONAL LIFE 1.My daughter, Eve, and her beautiful smiles 2.The happiness I felt last night relaxing with a glass of red wine and watching Sherlock on BBC 3.My wife and life partner 4.The time I spent with my son building his newest Lego Star Wars creation 5.The wonderful cup of
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Blissipline System 2: Forgiveness
Quantified Self is now coming to meditation in a big way through traditional brain wave measurement machines—
The difference between 40 Years of Zen and, say, classic meditation or mindfulness is simple. It’s based on actual biofeedback.
And we spent seven full days focusing on it. Forgiveness.
holding onto grudges and anger is the single biggest factor suppressing alpha waves.
Liberate Yourself and Truly Forgive
Neale Donald Walsch: “[The universe] sent you nothing but angels.” It implies adopting a model of reality that everyone who has ever entered our lives, even those who have hurt us, are nothing more than messengers to teach us an important lesson.
How did these lessons help you grow?
Next, focus on the person who wronged you. What pain or anguish could they have gone through in their life that made them do what they did?
Remember that hurt people, h...
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Those who hurt others are doing it because at some level, at some time, they were hurt, too. Think about how they may have been hurt ...
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