I found out about this blog post from readsaid. Old guy thinking is a brilliant post, by Mark Hanington, about lessons “learned after 36 years of being a father, 33 years as a teacher…”
Absolute must read

I recently found out about a LifeRemix from Guy Kawasaki’s Blog. LifeRemix is “a band of bloggers who enrich people’s lives through blogging” and looks a nice resource for people, like me, who are on a journey of continuous personal development and learning.

Anyway, one of the articles aggregated on LifeRemix, and highlighted by Guy, struck me as worth mentioning, as it is something I will try myself. The author of The Happiness Project Blog, Gretchen Rubin, wrote a post about starting her daily “one-sentence journal“, saying

The idea of keeping a proper journal was far too daunting, so I decided instead to keep a “one-sentence journal.”

which I think is kinda how I feel as well. I initially started this blog to journal my experiences, thoughts and feelings on a daily basis, but found it rather difficult to write about something worthwhile telling people everyday or even once every few days. But I still want to remember these times, I don’t want to look back 10, 20 years from now and think, what was I doing? So a one or two sentences at the end of the day is really simple and doable, and since I’ve already dedicated the last 1-2 hours of my days to practicing my writing and reading, this extra thing would fit right in with my current habit.

I’m not sure I’ll post each daily “one-sentence” here on my blog, since I don’t think it of much value to you, but I might post something after a week of my combined one-sentence journal entries, if looks interesting enough and you’re interested.

Are you happy? Isn’t that the ultimate goal in life. To be uncompromisingly and abundantly happy.

After watching some great TED presentations about happiness, I’ve come to learn happiness is not gotten by how much you get. There is soo much more to life than how much we get.

Tony Robbins outlines 6 things very person needs and with clear examples and arguments why.
Rick Warren, best selling author of “The Purpose Driven Life”, shares his insights into finding your purpose and being truly happy. Other presentations I’ve seen so far, which is also worth checking is that by Dan Gilbert and Barry Schwartz, sharing other insights into happiness which is worth taking a look at.

Also, slow down. Life isn’t a race. it’s a journey. Take the time to be grateful and thankful for what we have. If you can’t think of anything to be grateful for, then you’re not thinking hard enough, or at all.

I recommend watching each presentation in the order I’ve linked it in this post. When watched after each other they can be very powerful and moving

Ah! I just found out that the book Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill, that I bought the other day on Amazon is available for free in pdf e-book format from MySelfDevelopment.net.
Oh well, let me synthesize happiness. A hard copy is probably better to have than an e-book anyways

Quote of the Night

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln

I’ve just been listening to an audio recording of The Happiness Show, episode number 123, where George Ortega and Claudia Bassin chat with guest Ed Smith about happiness, success and choosing the right job.
Ed suggested a technique for choosing the right job, that sounded really neat to me, so I thought I’d give it try. Here’s how it goes.

1. Throughout 10 days look for things around you interest you.
2. Any potential job or career attracts your attention, write it down on a piece of scrap paper and put it away in an envelope you keep with you.
3. Each day set aside the pieces of scrap papers you’ve collected, and at the end of the 10 days, you should have 10 piles of paper scraps of things that you piqued your interest at some point.
4. Chuck all the piles together and jumble them up.
5. One by one open each scrap of paper, and see if those things still interest you and set them aside. You might find some ridiculous job choices, as you are writing these job choices down on impulse throughout the 10 day period, but if something still strikes a chord with you 10 days later, that must mean something.
6. From those scraps that still strike a chord with you, try to find similarities and overlaps. There’s the career for you.