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How to Stop Living on Auto-Pilot
What is worthy of your one life?
This question is a call to wake up, to turn off the autopilot that so easily steers us day in and day out. It’s an invitation to break free from routine, to step back and see your life with fresh eyes. To shake the dust off dreams you’ve left on the shelf. To ask yourself if you’re truly living, or just going through... See more
This question is a call to wake up, to turn off the autopilot that so easily steers us day in and day out. It’s an invitation to break free from routine, to step back and see your life with fresh eyes. To shake the dust off dreams you’ve left on the shelf. To ask yourself if you’re truly living, or just going through... See more
Douglas Woods added
So, how do you find your purpose? Get out your pen and paper and write another list. This time, jot down 15 big problems that really concern you – like world hunger, poverty, or climate change. Then, look for areas where your passions intersect with one or more of these problems. Any intersection is a potential purpose – you can have more than on
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Kaustubh Sule added
Define Your Way of Life
"But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."
This is my favorite insight from the letter: Identify how you want to live, not what you want to achieve.
So often people focus all their energy on the summits—but complet
... See moreChris Parry and added
Whether or not we live fulfilling lives often depends on our ability to honestly ask ourselves, How did I get here? Am I happy where I am? If not, how do I go to go somewhere different?
Ava • a blog is a space for dreaming
sari and added
A large percentage of people’s problems in work, love and life are due to some combination of vagueness and passivity. You don’t know what you want to spend your time on; you don’t know what kind of person you really get along with; you don’t know what kind of clothing looks good to you; you don’t know what you value in a city; you don’t know how t... See more
Ava • Why You Should Write More
of the things in life you might pursue, which is the thing you believe to be most valuable? Many people will have trouble naming this goal. They know what they want minute by minute or even decade by decade during their life, but they have never paused to consider their grand goal in living. It is perhaps understandable that they haven’t. Our cultu
... See moreWilliam B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
his guidelines are more like a fundamental code of everyday living: - know your long-range purposes - work in the service of some cause that you can respect - attempt to live and work in an environment in line with your own innate values - develop a philosophy of gratitude - reduce procrastination – it can be dangerous - use muscular activity to al
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