Create Your Life Handbook

by Celes on Mar 15, 2009 | ShareThis Email This Post One of the key tools I found critical in my pursuit of personal growth and living a purposeful life is creating my own life handbook. What do I mean by a life handbook? A life handbook, to put it simply, is your manual that contains anything and everything important in living your life, from your life purpose, adages, life lessons, long-term goals, short-term goals, strategies, plans, right down to your daily tasks. Just like you need a driving manual to learn driving, your life handbook is your manual to progress in life. The idea of having a life handbook came to me over a year ago. Fast forward to a year later in 2007, and what did I have? Besides that, I also noticed there were a lot of important things I was learning in life and they were either lost over time or stashed away in my latent memory. When I troubleshooted the situation, I realized it was because I lacked a central system to support my life. Key Sections of Your Book

How to Think Yourself Happy - What Makes Us Happy in Life on ELL You don't know what's good for you. You spend all your time coveting jobs, lovers, and handbags, and none of it will bring you anything but the most fleeting pleasure. You'll get the job, buy the bag, experience a moment of thrill, and then get used to it or find it isn't quite what you imagined it would be. The bliss evaporates. At least, that's the current thinking in psychology—that pleasure is as irrational as it is abstract, something shaped more by our minds than our bodies. Part of our problem is that we don't act rationally, writes Deirdre Barrett, PhD, an evolutionary psychologist at Harvard Medical School, in her new book, Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose. As another Harvardite, psychologist Daniel Gilbert, PhD, lays out in his bestseller, Stumbling on Happiness, our incorrigible optimism prevents us from accurately predicting how much pleasure we'll get from any given activity, from eating pizza to having children.

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Top 10 Creative Ways to Store Your Stuff I live in a smallish condo, so I love these kinds of creative hacks. Two of my favorite and easy hacks: 1. Hung my Guitar Hero controllers off the side of a movie rack with some thin steel wire. 2. 20 Questions You Should Ask Yourself Every Sunday post written by: Marc Chernoff Email At the cusp of new beginnings many of us take time to reflect on our lives by looking back over the past and ahead into the future. We ponder the successes, failures and standout events that are slowly scripting our life’s story. If you would like to maximize the benefits of self reflection , I have 20 questions for you. What did I learn last week? Take 30 minutes every Sunday and give yourself the gift of self reflection. And check out these books for more thought-provoking questions: Photo by: Cesar R. If you enjoyed this article, check out our new best-selling book. And get inspiring life tips and quotes in your inbox (it's free)...