Have you discovered your purpose in life? If so, you likely measure all against the fulfillment of that purpose. If not, you probably feel as though there is something yet missing. Rightly so. Purpose drives meaning, and no amount of busywork around the point of purpose can bring a sense of meaning quite the same …
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Royal Road to Happiness II
"Happiness has a number of under-studies, – gratification, satisfaction, content, and pleasure, – clever imitators that simulate its appearance rather than emulate its method. Gratification is a harmony between our desires and our possessions. It is ever incomplete, it is the thankful acceptance of part. It is a mental pleasure in the quality of what …
Royal Road to Happiness I
"'During my whole life I have not had twenty-four hours of happiness.' So said Prince Bismarck, one of the greatest statesmen of the nineteenth century. Eighty-three years of wealth, fame, honors, power, influence, prosperity and triumph, – years when he held an empire in his fingers, – but not one day of happiness!" ~ William …
Doing Your Best VI
"And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." ~ Deuteronomy 34:7 No matter how old you are at this moment, you should be in the prime of your life. For many the prime years are too few and too late, relegated …
Doing Your Best V
"The honest, faithful struggler should always realize that failure is but an episode in a true man's life,--never the whole story. It is never easy to meet, and no philosophy can make it so, but the steadfast courage to master conditions, instead of complaining of them, will help him on his way; it will ever …
Doing Your Best IV
Successful people know how to connect the dots between their present situation and their future goals. That said, successful people are not always happy people, which I imagine occurs whenever one's goals are not well-aligned with true purpose. The ability to connect the dots is something we learn from a very early age. We practice …
Doing Your Best III
In continuation of our consideration yesterday, I’d like to join William George Jordan in offering a few starting points for coming to the point where you can express unconscious grace in all that you do. To begin with, Jordan observed: “The man who is slipshod and thoughtless in his daily speech, whose vocabulary is a …
Doing Your Best II
There is no greater habit to develop than that of giving your best in everything you undertake, without excuse, pretense or apology. It is a simple matter, really, yet we in all of our intelligence tend to complicate it unnecessarily. We let our emotions take over, develop bad habitual reactions and develop prejudices over time …
Doing Your Best I
"If a man honestly seeks to live his best at all times, that determination is visible in every moment of his living, no trifle in his life can be too insignificant to reflect his principle of living. The sun illuminates and beautifies a fallen leaf by the roadside as impartially as a towering mountain peak …
Failure as a Success V
You do not need failure to know success. Likewise, you do not need pain to know pleasure, hate to know love or or darkness to know light. That said, both are available in abundance in the world we live in today, so learning to navigate both with dignity, balance and vision is of the utmost …
Gregory Hake 