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An inspiration engine for ideas
When I was starting to think about taking a different path, I had to find inspiration from podcasts and social media where people like Seth Godin, Derek Sivers, and Tim Ferriss exposed me to a broader set of ideas of how to live and work. The person I was most drawn to, Seth Godin, had built a life around creativity, generosity, and helping others.
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
“Every time you walk past someone, you have an opportunity to make their day better or make their day worse.
Joel Manby • Love Works: Seven Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders
We have become tiny, relatively wealthy cogs in giant, efficient machines. And yet, in our quiet moments, we reverberate with private longings to give our multitudinous selves expression.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I breathe—I’m a professional breather. We create those false transitions, we make it all look like it’s separate, just like we separate a garden, from a state, from a country, and ourselves from nature. I didn’t go from fashion to gardening to being a humanitarian. As a gardener, I was already
... See moreAnne-Laure Le Cunff • Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
You can break down the bulk of happiness research into three areas. Your happiness is affected by 1) your outlook, that is, how you choose to view the events and circumstances of your everyday life; 2) specific actions with positive impact—things like writing down three things your grateful for, or sending appreciative emails, doing random acts of
... See moreJohn David Mann • The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
This section may be called “It’s About How to Live Your Life,” but it’s really about how I’ve tried to live mine. I guess it’s my way of saying: Here’s what worked for me.
Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture
We are told a story from a young age. We are taught to conform, to behave, to achieve, to become something. And in the end, we believe the greatest lie of all — that we are somehow not enough, that we must become rather than simply be ourselves.
But tell me — have you ever seen a green tree struggle to grow, or a beautiful flower struggle to bloom?
... See moreMy prosperity prospers others.
Duane Packer • Creating Money: Attracting Abundance (Earth Life Series Book 5)
personal happiness that exists just beyond – separated by a membrane that is no more a barrier than the decision to pull back a window curtain and look out for something better.