Mateo Balaña Paemen

"Most people spend it getting dressed, getting ready, and rushing out the door. What if that time was spent making yourself a better person? What if you woke up an hour *before* you needed to each day and worked on yourself? How much better would you be at work, in your relationships, and as a person?"

Everything you say “Yes” to is saying “No” to everything else,

After three months, Schwab was so delighted with the progress his company had made that he called Lee into his office and wrote him a check for $25,000 (equivalent to $400,000 in 2015)

Ivy Lee implemented this method with the employees of Charles Schwab, one of the richest men in the world, at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1918. The cost of the training? “Nothing” Lee said, “Unless it works. After three months, you can send me a check for whatever you feel it's worth to you.”

I’m drawn to the idea of an art of living much more so than to the compulsive search for life hacks, regimens of self-improvement, or self-optimization schemes. These too often feel like a doubling down on the insistence that we can always do more if only we apply the right technique. They also suggest that the path to happiness involves the... See more