All posts tagged "Life"
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Applying Cross-Domain Thinking
We are interested in modelling: – the phenomena in general – how individuals do them – and how...
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The Art of Living
Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations remains one of humanity’s most significant and influential packets of thought on what it means...
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Is falling in love enough?
Did you know you can fall in love with anyone just by asking them 36 questions? Mandy Len...
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Why Some of Us Don’t Have One True Calling
What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, if you’re not sure you want to...
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5 Apps That Make Life Easier for Hurried CEOs
When you lead a company, you don’t have any days off. You eat, sleep and breathe your business,...
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Is It Time to Restrict Freedom Of Expression
Was this ever real? Was there ever a point in history when people could express themselves any way...
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Me and You and No Baby Makes Two
Picture this: I’m thirty-four years old. I’ve been married four and a half years. I don’t have any...
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Dead Ends Are New Beginnings
Dead Ends Are New Beginnings —an excerpt from A Minute for Me. Looking up at the steep hill,...
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How to run a Business with No Rules
What if your job didn’t control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a radical form of corporate...
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The Danger of Silence
“We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to...
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Nahko Bear
Potent. Powerful. Inspiring. Beautiful… A piece of art. Make a cup of tea, put up on the big...
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Give it up for happiness
Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak; sometimes it simply means you are strong enough and smart enough...
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Grief at Christmas
We already know that Christmas can suck like a Dyson if you don’t have the family portrait peddled...
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Present to the Present
Transformational Change: You are most likely to Succeed if you are Present to the Present moment! In today’s...
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Problem Solving Strategies
We’re used to living in an either-or world—but when it comes to yes-or-no dilemmas, says Martha Beck, the...
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Let Me Take a Selfie
As a member of Generation X, I find selfies to be, well, almost comical. It’s photography taken by...
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HeForShe
UN Women Global Goodwill Ambassador, Emma Watson, delivers her moving remarks during the HeForShe Special Event at United...
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Are you human?
Have you ever wondered: Am I a human being? Ze Frank suggests a series of simple questions that...
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Resilience for Life
Resilience, as you probably know, is the ability to ‘bounce back’, to recover from difficulties. Resilience is something...
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What Is Important
Apple cofounder and former CEO Steve Jobs was known for his obsessive commitment to quality. Ron Johnson, former JCPenney...
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Obsession with Choice
We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy...
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Acclaim, Aim and Task of Trust
Trust is on the decline, and we need to rebuild it. That’s a commonly heard suggestion for making...
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At a Loss?
As we find ourselves in the last few weeks of Autumn the hustle and bustle to get ready...
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Parenting Goals
The parenting section of the bookstore is overwhelming—it’s “a giant, candy-colored monument to our collective panic,” as writer...
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Mothers Without Children
Many mothers do not have children to show they are mothers. Many more wish to be mothers but...
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Embracing the Near Win
At her first museum job, art historian Sarah Lewis noticed something important about an artist she was studying:...
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Promise of a Pencil
It all started in the club. The music was thumping, the strobe lights were popping and this guy...
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21 Day No Complaint!
“This $@#&ing Mac will be the death of me. Intuitive, my ass.” It just slipped out, and I...
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Keys to Happy Relationship
A study of modern-day love has revealed that, generally, homosexual couples are more content than heterosexual ones –...
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Delivering happiness
Excerpt Introduction: Finding My Way Wow, I thought to myself. The room was packed. I was on stage...
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Beyond Leaning In
Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 — because she was...
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Make Time for Awe
Jason Silva is a self-described epiphany junkie. He recently enthused to me about how some movies, for example,...
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Gorilla Reunion
This heart-tugging video captured the extraordinary reunion of two old friends: a man and the gorilla he raised...
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Ted talk – Want to be happy?
The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says...
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End of Year Reflection
Year End Review Questions 365 days are about to come to pass. Before moving into the New Year...
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Time Wasters
A year ago my friend Russ Warner, CEO of ContentWatch, collaborated with me on the article Employees Really...
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Plug into Your Hard-Wired Happiness
Srikumar Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for...
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10 Facts of Happiness…
Happiness is so interesting, because we all have different ideas about what it is and how to get...
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Life Lessons
Roberto D’Angelo and Francesca Fedeli thought their baby boy Mario was healthy — until at 10 days old,...
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The 8 Must Nots
It’s for your own good. Cut these things out of your day and you’ll see gains in productivity–not...
