Note: This is a guest post from Clay Andrews of The Path to Passion I don’t mean to be a downer here. If you’re interested in optimizing your life and living it to the fullest, you probably have a lot of big goals and dreams. It’s important to focus on what you want and to [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Purpose’ Category
Note: This is a guest post from Michael Martel of Achieve the Green Beret Way A manifesto, by definition is a public declaration of a person’s principles and intentions. Throughout history a lot of manifestos have been political in nature. Marx and Engel’s Communist Manifesto sticks in many people’s mind as an example of a [ Read More ]
Note: This is a guest post from Mike Reeves-McMillan of Living Skillfully I spent a lot of my life with no sense of progress. Now, I didn’t say that I wasn’t making progress. In fact, of all the many jobs I’ve done – youth worker, book editor, technical writer, corporate trainer, systems analyst, business consultant [ Read More ]
Categories: Purpose
There’s an interesting talk at TED by Stefan Sagmeister titled The Power of Time Off. In the talk, Sagmeister shared his experience of how he takes one full year off every seven years to recharge his creative life. During the sabbatical year, he closes his design company and doesn’t accept any design request. It might [ Read More ]
Today is the last day of the decade. I still remember how my day was at December 31, 1999. The whole world was waiting for the new millennium. There were big celebrations all around the world. Some people worried that the computers would crash when the new millennium began. It’s hard to believe, but that [ Read More ]
Categories: Purpose
Persistence is important to achieve success, but giving up is also important. I’ve written about persistence before, so here I want to look at giving up. Why is it essential? Why is it necessary to give up? Because it allows you to focus your energy on the few things that are truly important. By giving [ Read More ]
