A sense of life balance comes from knowing we live a life based on our values. Centering ourselves in what is important to us. But how, when our lives are crazy busy, are we supposed to touch base with what is important? Here are four ways I use, exemplified by Tevye, the main character in The Fiddler On The Roof.
Happiness and Life Satisfaction
The Good Life: Advice To An 8th Grade Class I Wish Someone Gave Me
A Chicago public school teacher who had her class watch our movie No Impact Man reached out to me and asked me to write a letter to her class. After I wrote it, I realized it is exactly the advice I strive to follow in my own life and which you, whatever age you are, might find helpful–at least if, like me, you are looking to lead an authentic, impactful, good life.
Ask These Questions And Build Your Life’s True Legacy
When I was No Impact Man, people asked me all sorts of questions but the underneath motivation was almost always, “How do I make efforts that matter to the problems in the world I care about? How do I feel, if I must struggle in life, that my struggle at least matters to others?” Here are some questions that can help you build your legacy.
I Wanted To Tell You (My Recent Newsletter)
My most recent newsletter: An update on my life and work and news of a live, internet event you can participate in and nearly-free copies of my book!
How I Make My Life Helpful And Happy NOW (Instead of In The Future)
Back before I did the No Impact Man lifestyle experiment–in which I completely deconstructed my life and then put it back together, small choice by small choice–I worried mostly about getting the right job, the right relationship, the right home. It was all about making the right HUGE choice. It was scary–because what if you get a huge choice wrong?–and hard–because the HUGE choices take so much energy to change. Then, I learned that life is lived just as much in the smaller choices as the big ones. And I could make smaller choices to make my life happy and helpful now (instead of later, when I could change the big choices).
Why Your Therapy Or Spiritual Practice Might Not Be Working (And What You Can Do)
When Freud, Jung, Rogers, Perls and others developed analysis and therapy in the last century, so many of them–and their patients–lived in stable, safe, happy worlds. If they were personally unhappy, there was something wrong with them and they needed to change themselves. But what if our unhappiness comes not from something we need to fix in ourselves but from something that needs to be changed in the world? Here are some hints.
Never Be Lonely Again: Build a Great Community, Part II
We contribute more to our individual and world happiness when we are interconnected with and contribute to larger groups of people. Here are concrete directions for building or strengthening a really cool, individualized version of your own personal community. This is Part II of a two-part post.
Never Be Lonely Again: Build a Great Community, Part I
True fact: A huge body of research shows that we contribute more to our individual and world happiness when we are interconnected with and contribute to larger groups of people. Here are some directions for building or strengthening a really cool, individualized version of your own personal community.