Posts Tagged ‘life’

Your Happiness Plan

A Quick Survey Before we get under way with today’s briefer-than-normal chat, I want to conduct a little research on the run. Put up your hand if happiness is one of your aims in life. And no, participation is not optional at Stepcase Lifehack today. Yep, even you scaredy cats. Okay, keep ‘em up so I can count… 1001, 1002, 1003… yep; that’s all of you. Guessed as much. So it seems that… Continue reading

November 2 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: happiness, life, materialism, personal-development, planning | 17 comments»

More Ways to Go on a Date with Life

Yesterday I suggested that the rules that apply to successful dating could be applied more widely to life in general. After all, when we go on a date, we want our partner to see us at our best – and what could be better than being at your best all the time?With that in mind, I listed 6 guidelines that apply as well to life as to dating, and… Continue reading

September 17 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: dating, happiness, life, personal-development, self-improvement | 16 comments»

Go on a Date with Life

A lot has been written about dating. Some people rally enjoy dating, but for many, dating seems like a horrific trauma. Consider how many people stay in unsatisfying or even outright bad relationships because they’re even more terrified by the prospect of being “out there” again.Dating can be a chore because it seems so far removed from real life. But I wonder if there aren’t some everyday lessons we can… Continue reading

September 16 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: dating, happiness, life, personal-development, self-improvement | 23 comments»

Choices and Consequences

Consider this: In three weeks time, you have a big presentation to a long-hoped-for new client. Three weeks is plenty of time, though, so each day you sit down at your computer and, instead of working on your presentation, play game after game of Desktop Tower Defense. Three weeks and a day later, you’re clearing out your desk after being let go for failing to get that… Continue reading

May 27 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice, choice, decision, life, responsibility, wisdom | 12 comments»

How to Find Your Entrepreneurial Passion and Purpose

A few weeks ago, I wrote a few articles about starting a business based on something you love doing and are passionate about. I received several responses from people saying they weren’t sure how to go about figuring out what they were most passionate about or how to find their true purpose. So I’m dedicating this week to these issues.When I work with a new client, the first thing we… Continue reading

March 31 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, life, Lifestyle, motivation, passion, purpose, small business, success | 6 comments»

Quality of Life Perspectives: Conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz about Openness to Others

Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of The Acumen Fund. She is one of the most innovative and interesting philanthropists in the world today. Her non profit has taken on the world’s poverty problem by directly investing capital in developing world businesses that have the potential to deliver critical goods and services like health, water, housing and energy. /caption]More than anything, Jacqueline… Continue reading

March 25 2009 | By Kit | Tagged: jacqueline-novogratz, life, openness | 6 comments»

Finding Purpose

At the beginning of the semester, I asked my students a simple question. See, I teach an unusual class, a core requirement that fulfills not just a social science or humanity requirement but also fulfills my university’s diversity requirement. In practical terms, that means that students working on satisfying their general education requirement can take just my class instead of having to take two classes to satisfy the same requirement.So… Continue reading

March 17 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: activity, life, meaning, purpose, task, work | 18 comments»

Change The Way You See Fear And Change Your Life

When was the last time you took a risk? Not something major and life-threatening, but something that represented a step outside your comfort zone. Can you recall a time recently when you did something that felt uncomfortable for you? If not, get ready to take a major step forward.Frequently, in business and in life, we get too comfortable. We find solid ground - a place that feels safe - we… Continue reading

February 13 2009 | By Susan | Tagged: business, coaching, entrepreneur, failure, fear, life, success | 20 comments»

Book Review: David Allen’s “Making It All Work” (Part 3 of 3)

The second major theme in David Allen’s Making It All Work is “perspective”. (The first major theme, “control”, is discussed in part two of this review.) This part of the book expands greatly on the “Horizons of Focus” to which Allen commits only nine pages in the original Getting Things Done.Getting perspective means two things for Allen. First, and less importantly, it means consciously sorting your priorities before… Continue reading

February 9 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, book, david-allen, gtd, life, making-it-all-work, personal productivity, review, work | 3 comments»

Book Review: David Allen’s “Making It All Work” (Part 2 of 3)

Note: I decided that I'd better make this three parts instead of the originally-planned two. Allen's work is, of course, central to the whole field of personal productivity, so it's worth really diving into it. Don't miss Part 1 here.At the center of Making It All Work is a renewed emphasis on control -- effectively managing the work in your life -- and perspective -- aligning your work… Continue reading

February 6 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, book, david-allen, gtd, life, making-it-all-work, personal productivity, review, work | 7 comments»

Book Review: David Allen’s “Making It All Work” (Part 1 of 3)

December saw the release of David Allen’s Making It All Work:Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life, Allen’s long-awaited follow-up to his classic Getting Things Done (Ready for Anything, published in 2004, acts more as a companion to Getting Things Done than a sequel). Making It All Work seems to have been written with the primary goal of addressing some of the the… Continue reading

February 4 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, book, david-allen, gtd, life, making-it-all-work, personal productivity, review, work | 13 comments»

Are You Ditching Work-Life Balance Because You’re Afraid of Losing Your Job?

Some people think that life balance is a thing of luxury, something you pursue when times are good...that we should work like dogs to remain indispensable in this unpredictable economy. But wait a sec. Weren't we were already working like dogs, before we added in the fear of losing our jobs? Here's what got me going on this subject:In the post Keep Your Job: A 10-Point Survival Guide at… Continue reading

January 21 2009 | By Lisa | Tagged: Add new tag, balance, career, economy, happiness, job, life, psychology, work, work-life balance | 21 comments»

Toward a New Vision of Productivity, Part 8: Planning for Life

This is the eighth part of a 12-part series I am posting from the end of December and into January 2009, examining the current understanding of productivity and where the concept might be heading in the future. I invite Lifehack’s

January 12 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: david-allen, goal, goal setting, gtd, life, mind-like-water, plan, planning | 5 comments»

How to Live Artfully

I met someone recently who knows how to live.You know the type: self-possessed, confident, the kind of person who energizes a room. The kind of person who is alive to everything around them, who makes everyone they focus their attention on feel they could do more, they could be more. A natural-born leader who brings out the best in everyone without any apparent effort. Apparently fearless, they inspire by example… Continue reading

December 17 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: art, attention, creativitiy, curiosity, gratitude, inspiration, life, living | 21 comments»

Looking at the Little Things

This year has turned out to be a year of tremendous challenge for me. I realized that the career I’d spent my adult life cultivating was not quite as fulfilling as I’d hoped, and at the same time my relationship started buckling under pressures both from within and without.Change, it seems, was in order.If you listen to popular wisdom, especially as expressed in movies and TV shows, profound change comes… Continue reading

November 5 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: career, change, life, motivation, self-knowledge | 14 comments»

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