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Some people think that money is not important for happiness, or even that rich people are not happy. On the contrary, research has shown that people who are well-off financially are happier than poor people (Diener & Biwas-Diener, 2002; Diener & Seligman, 2004). It has usually been assumed that financial
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(Happiness) belongs more to those who have cultivated their character and mind to the uttermost, and kept acquisition of external goods within moderate limits, than it does to those who have managed to acquire more external goods than they can possibly use, and are lacking goods of the soul . . . Any
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The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive
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Originally, “amateur,” from the Latin verb amare, “to love,” referred to a person who loved what he was doing. Similarly a “dilenttante,” from the Latin delectare, “to find delight in,” was someone who enjoyed a given activity . . . There was a time when it was admirable to be an amateur poet
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Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue . . . as the unintended side-effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. Excerpt
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Applicable to businesses, and personal brands! Being “all things to all people” is a recipe for strategic mediocrity and below-average performance, because it often means that a firm has no competitive advantage at all. Excerpt from Competitive Advantage by Michael Porter.
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Thanks to our capacity to adapt to ever greater fame and fortune, yesterday’s luxuries can soon become today’s necessities and tomorrow’s relics. Excerpt from The Funds, Friends, and Faith of Happy People by David G. Myers.
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The quality of life does not depend on happiness alone, but also on what one does to be happy. If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one’s existence, if one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of
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John Schnatter is the founder, and up until 2007, was the CEO of Papa John’s; a business that is currently worth about $750m and on it’s way to becoming a billion-dollar company. Below is a short but inspiring excerpt from an article that was written about him in
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The first time I heard ‘Bright Life‘ (a song by Rie Fu), the following line resonated with me so much, I had to blog it: Try not to think about getting credit for doing what you were born to do. Why? Because the need to bask in glory and praise
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I was reading a journal article on business ethics and came across an interesting footnote worth thinking about: Blaise Pascal was a seventeenth-century French mathematician and philosopher who argued that we do not know whether or not God exists, but we should gamble on the fact that God does exist.