lifestyle
What is worthwhile?
lifestyle
A number of observational studies have indicated that volunteering is associated with improvements in various aspects of well-being. In some sense, volunteering and regularly participating in various volunteering activities and organizations is a commitment to repeated acts of kindness, generally directed to an important goal of improving the life... See more
Harvard University • How to Flourish: Practical Activities Supported by Scientific Research
Toolkit to activate excitement:
Act on your highest excitement
Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)
To the best of your ability
Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it
... See more“Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults.”
James Clear • Highlights From jamesclear.com
You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
Joseph Campbell Quotes (Author of The Power of Myth)
“The nature of life is change and the nature of people is to resist change.”
Lori Gottlieb • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
At the other side of the spectrum from boredom is addiction—not a disengagement but its dark reverse, a pathological degree of repetition or perseverance.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
Being open with your insecurities paradoxically makes you more confident and charismatic around others. The pain of honest confrontation is what generates the greatest trust and respect in your relationships. Suffering through your fears and anxieties is what allows you to build courage and perseverance.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
Letting go is not in anybody’s program for happiness, and yet all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning. You can take that as an absolute. As German mystic-philosopher Meister Eckhart said, the spiritual life has much more to do with subtraction than it does with addition.