August 2009
25 posts
“What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love,...”
– President Obama Delivers Eulogy at Sen. Ted Kennedy’s Funeral - ABC News (via apeckham)
“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do, you apologize for the truth.”
– Benjamin Desraeli (via eletheowl) (via hiten)
How to Spend Your Money to Maximize Your Happiness →
* Money makes you most happy if you don’t spend it on yourself.
* Just reallocating as little as $5 on a given day can make a difference in happiness.
* Money spent on experiences - vacations or theater tickets or meals out - makes you happier than money spent on material goods.
* Having money on one’s mind made people harder-working, even more resistant to pain, but it also made them more...
WatchDan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
A compelling talk by a passionate speaker. Dan talks about examples of the work my friend Traci over at Worldblu has been supporting. Basically, building companies that capitalize on peoples’ desire to *want* to contribute to something greater than themselves, and giving them the control to do so. Those, my friends, are the principles...
“How many of our most joyful memories have been created in front of a screen?”
– A Manifesto for Slow Communication
“when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why (via hiten)
“Once you have a mission, you can’t go back to having a job”
– (via taylordavidson)
“Focus hard. In reasonable bursts. One day at a time.”
– Study Hacks on how to accomplish big things
“Fear’s purpose is to notify us that we are at the edge of our comfort...”
– DailyOM - The Wisdom of Fear
“And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine...”
– http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html (via heyitsnoah) (via superamit)
“A smart traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.”
– Lao Tzu (via ambivalence) (via rahmin)
“Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all...”
– Unknown (via kari-shma) (via hiten)
“Happy girls are the prettiest.”
– Audrey Hepburn (via hiten)
“Your probability of dying during a given year doubles every 8 years. For me, a...”
– Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates (via hiten)
Time to get busy living!
“You can’t be happy all the time, but you can pretty much focus all the time....”
– Winifred Gallagher, author of Rapt, who actively shifts her attention on more positive, productive things. (via designtumblelog) (via rahmin)
Which Type of Company would you Rather Work For?
I recently stumbled across an article in Fast Company about a management “guru” named Fernando Flores. His methods consist of developing team cohesion and developing leaders through “total honesty”. This honesty often means being a jerk.
Can you imagine working in a setting where it’s acceptable to say things like this to your co-workers (all from Flores’...
“When you dare to share your light with the world, the beauty and perfection of...”
– DailyOM - Letting Your Light Shine
[this is awesome] Bobby McFerrin Hacks a Piano out... →
Had a smile on my face throughout this awesome 3 minute vid - always amazing watching people doing what they love!
“Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.”
– Buckminster Fuller (via rulesformyunbornson) (via ryeontherocks) (via chartreuse)
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy; One...”
– Top 10 Lessons Learned in Happiness - Sources of Insight (via hiten)
“The secret is to focus on making whatever it is you’re trying to improve and...”
– The Big Question: Are You Better Than Yesterday? (via chartreuse)