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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
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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: When change occurs and causes upset, anguish and health problems; where do you turn for help? Having used a scenario similar in the past, one answer for sure is when you are able to reflect on the problem some time after; you're able to help yourself. We know this to be true and the reason for its truth is that the moment to anguish begins your peripheral vision is wide, and with each moment it closes in to create blinkers. Your ability to help yourself depends upon your calmness of mind. With tranquillity comes the ability to gather information and process it. Today's story illustrates a trust in a calmness, a faith or a God; and how this belief creates an aura of self-assurance and confidence. ANGELS IN THE ALLEY Diane, a young University student, was home for the summer. She had gone to visit some friends one evening and time passed quickly as each shared their various experiences of the past year. She ended up staying longer than planned, and had to walk home alone. She wasn't afraid, because it was a small town and she lived only a few blocks away. As she walked along under the tall elm trees, Diane asked "God" to keep her safe from harm and danger. When she reached the alley, which was a short cut to her house, she decided to take it, however, halfway down the alley she noticed a man standing at the end as though he were waiting for her. She became uneasy and began to pray, asking for "God's" protection. Instantly a comforting feeling of quietness and security wrapped around her, she felt as though someone was walking with her. When she reached the end of the alley, she walked right past the man and arrived home safely. The following day, she read in the newspaper that a young girl had been raped in the same alley, just twenty minutes after she had been there. Feeling overwhelmed by this tragedy and the fact that it could have been her, she began to weep. Thanking the Lord for her safety and to help this young woman, she decided to go to the police station. She felt she could recognize the man, so she told them her story. The police asked her if she would be willing to look at a line-up to see if she could identify him. She agreed and immediately pointed out the man she had seen in the alley the night before. When the man was told he had been identified, he immediately broke down and confessed. The officer thanked Diane for her bravery and asked if there was anything they could do for her. She asked if they would ask the man one question. Diane was curious as to why he had not attacked her. When the policeman asked him, he answered, "Because she wasn't alone. She had two tall men walking on either side of her." Moral of the story? Make your own moral as this story can be any to suit your need of the day. (Unknown Author) QUOTE: "If you don't run your own life, someone else will.' (John Atkinson) [[ct]]: Jeff Sachs

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ESSAY; The Rap on Happiness

31 Jan 2010 at 12:00am

Smart people often talk trash about happiness, and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries -- just as long as other people have been pursuing happiness and writing books about it. The fashion is to bemoan happiness studies and positive psychology as being the work not of the Devil (the Devil is kind of...

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THE WEEK AHEAD | JAN. 3- JAN.9

3 Jan 2010 at 12:00am Television Mike Hale With a new decade beginning, PBS gets introspective, offering a pair of three-part series that delve into human nature. ''THIS EMOTIONAL LIFE,'' Monday through Wednesday at 9 p.m. on most stations, is hosted by Daniel Gilbert, the author of ''Stumbling on Happiness'' and a psychologist at Harvard, where he is known as Professor...

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS; Happy to Be Me . . . . . . or Me!

10 May 2009 at 12:00am

LITTLE OINK By Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Illustrated by Jen Corace Unpaged. Chronicle Books. $14.99. (Ages 3 and up) SPOON By Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Illustrated by Scott Magoon Unpaged. Disney Hyperion Books. $15.99. (Ages 2 to 6) YES DAY! By Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Illustrated by Tom Lichtenheld Unpaged. HarperCollins Publishers. $14.99. (Ages 4 to 8)...

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Is it time for "Shock Therapy? "? (Answers: 2) (Comments: 0)
What I'm talking about are policy actions equivalent in rapidity and scope to those that were developed by Jeff Sachs and used with a large degree of success in places like Bolivia and Poland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics) Seeing as how all of the measures by the Fed and Treasury - in concert with their international counterparts - have ceased to halt the financial crisis, I'm increasing starting to think if it's time to try some shock therapy here. - Raise the discount rate to 10% or higher to assuage investors' concerns about the trillions of Dollars, Pounds, and Euros that are being printed, and to rapidly liquidate the bad debt in the system. - Raise the required reserve ratio to 20% to restore confidence in bank solvency. - Guarantee demand deposits, money market accounts, and other nominally risk-free investments. - No more bailouts or liquidity injections on the supply side (directly to institutions). They way I figure it, we're going to be in for a lot of pain either way, so why not make it 2-3 months of pain, rather than potentially years of it? It also seems obvious to me that we're in a liquidity trap, so monetary policy actions are totally ineffective (once interest rates are cut this low, money and T-bills become competing assets). Most of the banks and financial institutions will fail, but what of it? They're going to end up completely nationalized anyways if we keep up the piecemeal band-aid measures.

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Subsidies and Dead Weight Losses? (Answers: 1) (Comments: 0)
I'd appreciate a *credible* source explaining how subsidies create dead weight losses (DWL's) in sufficient detail. I cannot seem to find a good source explaining it in much detail. The more sources you list, the better. Much appreciated. Also, ignore the irony of a Jeff Sachs avatar asking such a rudimentary economics question.

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Do you believe that the cuts in the Fed Funds Rate will result in stagflation? (Answers: 3) (Comments: 0)
Jeff Sachs seem to believes this a possibility http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sachs139 He believes in that the fed should "prevent a breakdown in liquidity while keeping inflation under control." Are these concerns warranted?

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