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Write an essay about how you would use $100,000 to help others and you could win a chance to do just that with the IKEA Life Improvement Sabbatical Contest.
If you ever dreamed of changing your life and someone else’s, this is one big opportunity.
What: Hoping to help people who want to help others is the [...]
Toward the end of his August book review of “Exploring Happiness” by Swedish born philosopher Sissela Bok for the Wall Street Journal, Paul Beston, associate editor of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, states:
“He who worries about happiness in itself has probably already secured his dinner.”
Oh I so disagree, Mr. Beston. Faced with poverty, disease, war and loss, people [...]
Many people tell me that writing – a book, short story, an individual life story, or poetry – is a goal for their time away from work. That inspired me to turn to Casey Hawley, a colleague and one of the most prolific writers I know, for advice on how a finished writing project really [...]
Where is it that you have a sense of belonging to the land? A place you feel rooted? What vista feeds your soul?
Some describe it as a place where they feel “home,” while others describe a place that stirs their mind and soul.
One morning this past June, I woke up in a Malmerby Hall in northern England [...]
Ever mull over a decision until it was too late to get it right? Or spend a lot of energy agonizing on what to do in a dilemma? Are you such a slow decision maker that life is passing you by as you ponder about a career break, finding work you love or seeking a [...]
Dr. Jonathon Weiswasser is an accomplished 43-year old. A vascular surgeon with a thriving New Jersey practice, he built and flies his own plane and is the father of two.
At the end of a CBS Sunday Morning segment yesterday, Weiswasser said:
“I’d give it all up – everything – to be 18 again in 1963.”
Mark Phillips, the [...]
Aspiring, newly minted and experienced entrepreneurs rejoice! This week I happily devoured a second smart and engaging book to help us lead the life we want.
In my last post, I ditched Tony Robbins for Chris Guillebeau. (That was so easy!) Gurgling about the inspirational messages in Guillebeau’s book, “The ART of Non-Conformity: Set Your, Own Rules, Live the Life You Want and Change [...]