20 Ways to Get Good Karma - By The Dalai Lama. How understanding your dreams will help your career. Until now, no one I know of has sold their car, given away their cat and moved to Thailand because of something I said.
But when Nick Paddock told me he was doing just that after reading my career-change book, I admit I was a little concerned. Turns out he has good reasons for such a dramatic career move. He also has something else going for him — and if change is something you're considering, you will need this, too. More on that in a minute. Like most careers, his has not been bump free. He didn't know what to do. Such self-awareness led him to the job he has loved for nearly three and half years as marketing director for Visionaries & Voices (V&V), a Cincinnati-based nonprofit group that supports artists with disabilities. Now he's leaving to do the other things on his Restless Gnawing List he wrote from my exercise: • Learn how other cultures live. • Teach in an unstructured environment. • Serve people in need. What is clear is that everything he's done until now has led him to this point. Welcome, Mandy!
Advice/Money. 12 Happiness Habits for Busy People. Email It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness. - James M.
Barrie You should never be too busy to smile, because creating happiness in your life does not take a lot of time. You just have to do a few things right. 1. Don’t wait for people to smile. Let your guard down. The more you smile at others, the more others will smile at you. 2. Do so, and it will be. 3. Appreciate all the good things in your life, no matter how small.
Most of us have incredible family members, friends, other loved ones who love us back. Be grateful for each of these things, and more! 4. Everyone possesses unique personal strengths. 5. Yesterday I saw a kid in the grocery store having the time of his life with nothing more than a banana and his imagination. How is it that we are born knowing how to enjoy life, and yet after learning all of the wonderful things we adults learn, we somehow forget how to have fun? The solution? » How to Actually Execute Your To-Do List: or, Why Writing It Down Doesn’t Actually Get It Done. Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on twitter . Have you gotten good at organizing your tasks in a to-do list, but have trouble actually executing them? You’re not alone. 100 Tips to Improve Your Life. What Google Can Teach Us About Self-Image. Self-perspective is one of the hardest things to understand.
I mean, it seems simple enough on the surface; it’s merely what you think of yourself. But many times we don’t see that how we view ourselves can affect our successes as a professional/parent/circus clown/etc. Maxwell Maltz put it best when he said Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. There’s nothing more dangerous or helpful to your individual success than high self-image. Companies are the same way. 60 Ways To Make Life Simple Again.
Seven Secrets of Highly Productive People.