Designing Your Life

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Sue

“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
– Anthony Robbins

You’ve likely heard the rags to riches stories about people who had no money, no idea of how to make ends meet, were facing eviction, and had a family to feed. Yet they used that feeling of desperation to propel themselves to success.

There are also stories of people who were inspired to change their life as a result of seeing the lifestyle or dream career that someone else created.

If the world were to disappear tomorrow, can you honestly say you lived life exactly how you wanted to?
If you were given a second chance, would you change anything? Would you dream a different dream? Take more chances or less? Continue reading →

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Habits of Happiness – Matthieu Ricard

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Sue

What is happiness? As with most emotions, it’s not that easy to describe. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary happiness is “a state of well-being and contentment.” Since we’re each different, how we create and sustain that type of state will also differ.

Near the beginning of his presentation on the “Habits of Happiness” at TED, Matthieu Ricard says: “We don’t wake up in the morning thinking may I suffer the whole day.” We have a desire for well-being and happiness, yet most definitions of happiness are vague. Continue reading →

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Dan Gilbert on Happiness at TED

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Sue

“Our lives may not always turn out as we wish or as we plan,
but we are confident that if they had,
then our happiness would have been unbounded
and our sorrows thin and fleeting.”
– Dan Gilbert in “Stumbling on Happiness”

Dan Gilbert did a talk at TED called: Why are we happy? Why aren’t we happy?

Who do you think would be happier in the long-run: those who win millions or people who become paraplegic? How long can life traumas affect our happiness? Can we be just as happy not getting what we want as getting what we want? How does freedom of choice factor in? Dan Gilbert answers these questions and talks about synthesizing happiness.

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The Dalai Lama on Happiness

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Sue

“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion,
if you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
– H.H. Dalai Lama

If someone gave you a million dollars would you be happy forever? What about two million or three million? Would money make you truly happy for the rest of your life? Continue reading →

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TED Talk – Dan Buettner – How to Live to Be 100+

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Sue

10% of longevity is due to our genes and 90% to our lifestyle. When you think about it, what is a lifestyle but a series of habits?

There are 4 “Blue Zone” areas in the world where people are more likely to live beyond 100 years of age and be vital and spry. Dan Buettner and his team sought to find out what lifestyle habits these people practiced.

Dan shares the 9 lifestyle habits they found and also dispels some common myths about lifestyle and aging along the way in this video from the TED conference. Continue reading →

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