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Imagine
by guest
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]]: Learning Patience

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STATE OF THE UNIONS; The Poetry of Parenthood

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THE poet Erika Meitner was a waddling nine months' pregnant in March 2007, negotiating the particulars of a job as a poetry professor at Virginia Tech, and watching an episode of ''24'' at home in Washington, when her water broke. Landing a job teaching poetry is to poets what winning the lottery is to everybody else. With her baby dropping by the...

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You'll Know How Much You Spent

27 Mar 2008 at 12:00am

TOMAS MAIER cultivates tenacity. If a tree in his garden doesn't thrive, he simply uproots it and replants. If a supermarket tomato is not tangy enough for his taste, he is apt to grow his own. ''People like myself cannot get happy,'' Mr. Maier mused last week as he sat in the courtyard below one of his namesake stores in Palm Beach, Fla. ''I'm...

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Learning Patience in Line

2 Jul 2007 at 12:00am To the Editor: ''A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket'' (front page, June 23) reminded me of inching along one of many slow checkout lines at a Baltimore supermarket one Saturday afternoon in 1974. Only one customer stood between me and the exit when the cashier, a middle-aged woman wearing a bandana, announced, ''I think I need a...

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TENNIS: NOTEBOOK; Mattek Is Quickly Learning Patience

23 Aug 2002 at 12:00am At 14, Bethanie Mattek's career seemed to hit the stereotypical fast track that whooshes talented girls into the cold, hard world of professional tennis. Only Mattek didn't feel any of the whoosh. She felt plenty of the cold, hard part. She had become the first American to win both the singles and the doubles at the prestigious French 14-and-under...

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Sports of The Times; Learning Patience, Quietly, From Bernie

20 Oct 1998 at 12:00am IN the aftermath of Ricky Ledee's weekend World Series ascent, a soda can was hanging from the fingertips of his left hand, the chain holding his crucifix was drooping out one side of his shirt, and a most interesting hypothetical was dangling in front of his face. What if? What if Bernie Williams had just played his last game in center field at...

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Have you ever prayed for tribulation? Did you ever pray for patience? The Bible says that "tribulation?
worketh patience"; so if you pray for patience; then you are praying for troubles. Learning patience is a process that can only be achieved through practicing it first hand when it is needed.

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tae kwon do or jiu jitsu for 5 year old?
hello, my 5 year old son in interested in martial arts and i would like to sign him either in tae kwon do or jiu jitsu. i did a little re-search, so i do know the difference between the two. as i mentioned he is only 5, so i don't want him to street fight or be trouble in school, i want him to learn patience, discipline, respect, self-respect and self-confidence. which one of those two would you recommend? thank you very much!

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Some new people demanding a lot in the start of the job... those people must be stupid?
My idiot friend just passed three rounds of interview in getting a law job and after working there for a month, he is already asking for a raise and talking arrogantly to his boss and the higher ups. After all the prepping and note taking to pass the interview rounds, he hasn't study about being patience and having working ethics as a young person. I mean he is young in his twenties, worked there for a month for someone else, and he is fired because of his own cockiness. I am young in my twenties and I don't like my bosses and I never will, but learning patience and absorbing senior experiences from the "tenured people" has always been the way of becoming a matured adult. I don't talk arrogantly to seniors and I will assume I know everything because I don't have the experienced emotions in business life. My friend is still acting arrogant and is still looking for a law job with his computer at his parent's house. Hmph, I rather be calm and collected than yap and demand conditions. What do the sensible people think about this in the current job situation?

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