Posts Tagged ‘purpose’

The Nature of Commitment

In a comment on my recent post about breaking up, someone asked if I'd write a follow-up about staying together. I've actually written about successful relationships before, based less on my own experience than on the work of relationship psychologists, so I'll just refer you there if you're looking for relationship advice. But thinking about what goes into a committed relationship got… Continue reading

October 14 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: choice, commitment, mission, personal growth, purpose | 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»

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»

Selective Apathy Frees You to Care More

Photo courtesy of Libby What do you think of this phrase: “The Joy of Apathy”? It sounds like such a clashing contradiction: how can joy, which is associated with happiness and passion, be found in the opposite stoicism of apathy? While joy and apathy certainly aren't the same, they often work together and are complementary, as we’ll see. Every one of us has a capacity to care and be… Continue reading

August 7 2008 | By Torley | Tagged: apathy, balance, boredom, caring, emotion, feeling, focus, health, joy, life, meaning, purpose, thought | 2 comments»

Lifehack Live for May 12, 2008: Author and Coach Arvind Devalia

Releasing this a day late. Monday was a holiday in Hong Kong, where our head office is, so there was nobody around to upload the podcast file. My apologies!

This week I talked with Arvind Devalia, author of Get the Life You Love and Live It, about finding your life's purpose and pursuing it. His new book, Personal Social Responsibility, is due out soon!

Thanks for… Continue reading

May 13 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: giving, Podcast, purpose | no comments»

Break the Mold and Create Your Own Work

Last Thursday, I wrote a column here called “Why Work?” I was hoping that we could break away from thinking about the income we tend to quickly associate with jobs and working for a living, and think about some other motivators, and some other satisfiers. Yes, income is a necessity of life, and I do not deny it is a strong motivator, but once you get enough to satisfy… Continue reading

November 2 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: intention, joy, motivation, passion, purpose, value, work, worth | 252 comments»

Why work?

Imagine something with me for a moment. You are unbelievably wealthy and debt-free. You don’t have to work for the income it brings you, but still, you do work. Because you aren’t concerned with the amount of your paycheck, you are able to choose the work you want to do for the pure joy and pleasure of it. What would you choose? What would you do? Do you have an answer… Continue reading

October 26 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: intention, joy, motivation, passion, purpose, value, work, worth | 21 comments»

POP² Management

Remember “management by objective?” In the early years of my own management career, management by objective was the single-minded battle cry for business. It was a time when we took certain things for granted, like the hard work ethic of our staff; with few exceptions, dependability and reliability was pretty much a workplace-entry given. Little wonder that most of our efforts were directed toward process improvement, with the Total Quality Management movement… Continue reading

August 10 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: acronyms, focus, objective, people, POP², process, purpose, strategy | 8 comments»