Deciding to be happy is more than having a wistful and fleeing flirtation with the concept in your mind and then going about your business. It is determining that you actually want to be happy and then resolving that you will do what it takes to get there. [...]
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Leave nothing for to-morrow, which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done. -Abraham Lincon Orange Crate Art: Abraham Lincoln, getting things done From “Notes on the Practice of Law,” [...] It took carpal tunnel syndrome and an inflexible corporate environment for me to realize that I desperately needed a change. And that’s what it took to remind me of the philosophy my dad taught me as a little girl, something I’d long forgotten: that work is what makes the rest of your life possible. [...] The reason I am obsessed with self-tracking is because I think there is a way to track yourself in such a way that it leads to epiphanies about yourself, about the cause and effect of things, in such a way that these numbers would eventually be able to tell you things about yourself that [...] Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them. (via Bill Gates unplugged | Video on TED.com) I think everyone should considder just [...] | |||
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