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Imagine
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22 May 2012 at 9:44am
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Chris Guillebeau of ChrisGuillebeau.com. Imagine a life where all your time is spent on the things you want to do. Imagine giving your greatest attention to a project you create yourself, instead of working as a cog in a machine that exists to make other people rich. [...]
The Little Guide to Contentedness
by Leo
18 May 2012 at 1:31pm
‘He who is contented is rich.’ ~Lao Tzu Post written by Leo Babauta. There has been little in my life that has made as much an impact as learning to be content — with my life, where I am, what I’m doing, what I have, who I’m with, who I am. This little trick changes [...]
The 9-5 Guide to Staying Active
by guest
15 May 2012 at 9:00am
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Matt Madeiro of Make Every Day Count. Let?s see if this rings any bells. When the clock hits 8, I sit. I plop back in my rolling chair, crack open the laptop on my desk, and spend the next nine hours with my butt glued firmly to [...]
Three Little Habits to Find Focus
by Leo
10 May 2012 at 11:42am
‘Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.’ ~Blaise Pascal Post written by Leo Babauta. I’ll be the first to admit that I fall victim to the trap of the Internet — a wonderful empowering tool that can fill your day with distractions, [...]
How to Live Well
by Leo
7 May 2012 at 1:59pm
‘Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.’ ~Seneca Post written by Leo Babauta. I’m not a rich man, nor do I fly around the world and drink champagne with famous people in exotic locales, nor do I own a sports car or SUV or a yacht. And yet, [...]
What I?ve Learned About Learning
by Leo
3 May 2012 at 9:07am
‘We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.’ ~Lloyd Alexander Post written by Leo Babauta. I am a teacher and an avid learner, and I’m passionate about both. I’m a teacher because I help Eva homeschool our kids — OK, [...]
The 39th Lesson
by Leo
30 Apr 2012 at 9:05am
Post written by Leo Babauta. Today (April 30) is my 39th Un-un-birthday, and as usual, the day is a good day to pause and reflect. Last year I wrote 38 Life Lessons I?ve Learned in 38 Years, and people seemed to find some use in it. This year, I thought I’d share an additional lesson [...]
How to Fail at Habits
by Leo
24 Apr 2012 at 11:28am
Post written by Leo Babauta. Before I learned how to change habits, I was stuck. I kept trying to change various habits — running, eating healthier, waking earlier, getting out of debt, ending procrastination — and I kept failing. I got very good at failing, in fact. Looking back on those days, given the power [...]
Webinar: How I Used the Power of Bad Habits to Change My Life
by Leo
23 Apr 2012 at 8:00am
Post written by Leo Babauta. Yesterday I conducted a free webinar, “How I Used the Power of Bad Habits to Change My Life“, and the video is below. The webinar was held Mon. April 23), and in it I talked about my struggle with bad habits, why bad habits are so powerful, and how I [...]
Crazy Talk: The Do-What-You-Love Guide
by Leo
19 Apr 2012 at 11:36am
‘Everything you can imagine is real.’ ~Pablo Picasso Post written by Leo Babauta. When I wrote the first words of this blog, more than five years ago, I had no idea those few keystrokes would change my life. I thought I was doing nothing more than reflecting on the changes that had been happening in [...]

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Here is your Thursday STORY on: ADAPTING TO CHANGE: QUOTE: 'Empathize with one who is angry and watch the anger melt away into acceptance.' (Eva Gregory) Starting with a quote on this occasion has helped set the mood. A major part of wisdom is control, not dominance but allowance. The greater control comes from letting go. Rather than seeing control as 'hands on' we ought to view it from a different perspective as 'hands off'. As in the quote above empathy is not control it is an understanding. To understand allows a greater force to work. If we could adapt that to our own life rather than the quote's suggestion as seeing others, we could temper many a storm. As with adapting to change, could we not allow the change to happen and adapt rather than fight its effect? The greater energy flow would arise by letting go, rather than mustering up the strength to fight. Our emotion state of mind is at its strongest during a period of calm and settled existence. Stir that up and our decisions become more erratic and dysfunctional. So the power arises from the calm rather than the futile lashing out from the anger. Today's story illustrates how we can disarm the anger; the anger of doing wrong. The route is through letting go rather than dominance. DISARMING THE ENEMY According to an Associated Press account, in September 1994 Cindy Hartman of Conway, Arkansas, walked into her house to answer the phone and was confronted by a burglar. He ripped the phone cord out of the wall and ordered her into a closet. Hartman dropped to her knees and asked the burglar if she could pray for him. "I want you to know that God loves you and I forgive you, '' she said. The burglar apologized for what he had done. Then he yelled out the door to a woman in a pickup truck: "We've got to unload all of this. This is a Christian home and a Christian family. We can't do this to them." As Hartman remained on her knees, the burglar returned furniture he had taken from her home. Then he took the bullets out of his gun, handed the gun to Hartman, and walked out the door. Praying for our enemies is incredibly disarming. (Unknown Author) QUOTE: 'Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how can we turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.' (Leigh Hunt) [[ct]]: Giving

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How to Be Happier at Work: 3 Tips

22 May 2012 at 9:52am Google's chief happiness officer shares some of the wisdom that has made the company's employees more content and productive. Working at a start-up can be stressful. Just ask Chade-Meng Tan, who as Google's 107th employee, experienced the company back when it was a start-up instead of the behemoth it is today. Tan was an engineer, and engineers at Google are famously given "20% time" to work on ...

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What We Know Now About How to Be Happy

17 May 2012 at 9:07am Recent science has shown how important our minds are to our bodies, but they also reveal how difficult it is to define and promote happiness.

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How to have a happy body

14 May 2012 at 5:56pm Having a happy body doesn't have to be hard, says physiotherapist Anna-Louise Bouvier. Here's how you do it.

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Why do the younger siblings get away with EVERYTHING?
I am a seventeen year old boy/man whose is tring to mature like the rest of us; but for me it's hard when you have a pathetic exuse for a good brother(Age:13). He gets away with everything. Let me give you some examples. He hasnt done any homework the whole year, and our parents are real proud of him. The year is almost over and he has a 27 as one of his grades. He sais he isn't going to do Sh** in that class, and my parents are all strict about me. He gets really agressive when he dosn't get what he wants. I remember he broke my 3DS just becuase I beat him at a video game. He tried pushing me in the highway once, and laughed when I almost got ran over. He drew a picture of me HANGING on a tree, and my parents were like "AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW that's so cute" He curses like the world is going to end, He called my ex-girlfriend a WHORE, and spit on her. You can see why she's my ex right. He pulled the fire alarm several times, he showed his teacher his a**. Also, he lies about me to everyone; for example, he told a mom that I DID DRUGS, And guess what, I got grounded for 5 weeks. He says he's going to "SHOOT MY A**" if i tell anyone. I need help:( I'm sorry, It wasn't a 3DS, it was a DS lite

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Hey guys i was wondering if you could translate this story into latin?
There is a boy named Jerry. Jerry is a bad boy. He steals from the common people of his town. One day, Jerry is walking the streets of (Roman City), he steals a necklace from an old woman. This old woman was the goddess Athena in disguise. When she saw the bad boy taking her jewels, she exclaimed ?You wish to grab everything that is not yours! So, I will give you what you truly want.? Athena turned Jerry into a giant octopus with eight arms. ?Now, you may grab onto whatever you please times four!? The goddess pickes up the octopus and walked him to the ocean. She then places him in the water and whisperes to it, ?I hope you have learned your lesson, bad boy. Never steal from a goddess.? preferably not from google translator :D

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Why do people freak out around bows and arrows?
I was at my friend's baseball game and was getting bored because there wasn't much action, so I took out my archery set which I had brought to his house earlier and started to shoot into the distance (a field that was really long and no people or animals in the way. There were a couple of kids watching from a safe distance (about 10 feet behind me) and one decided to be helpful and picked up the arrow to give back to me. Then this random guy started to freak out and have a spazz attack and go "Whoa! Bow and Arrow! Kids Sit Down!" I tried to calmly explain that if you take safety precautions it can be safe for the kids to watch but he cut me off and said "You know what, anything can happen"and i thought "Yeah because you know the arrow is just gonna randomly fly back at us at stab us to death". He began to pull the kids like 30 feet back and block them like I was pointing it at them, so I decided to put it down realizing it kind of freaked him out thinking he would stop. But no! he had to take it a step further and walk up to the bleachers and yell "Somebody brought a bow and arrow! Who did it?!?", I said it was mine (obviously) And this woman began pulling the kids back and I felt so embarrassed that I felt like shooting myself with the bow and arrow. I ended up having to put it in his mother's car. The guy did apologize if it seemed like he was chewing me out but I was still mad at him. So I would like to know why even though I was taking safety precautions and no one was near me at all why these people freaked out and ended up embarrassing me in front of a lot of people.

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