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The Change-Maker’s Guide To Using “Vision Cards” To Create The Life And World You Want

December 21, 2022 by Colin Beavan 8 Comments

A simple stack of handwritten “vision cards” that I look at and work with every day has helped me more than any other personal management tool to achieve goals in every area of my life from being a successful author to helping others to live according to their values to building an income that sustains me to living environmentally to being an effective climate change and social change activist to being a good dad. This post is about how to create and use your own set of vision cards. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Career and Work Life, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To, How To Be Alive, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth

The Questions of Life

February 18, 2020 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

“The sun in the sky shines everywhere, why does a cloud obscure it?” Kong-ans (koans) are word puzzles which are used in the Zen tradition of which I am a part to help us deal with the conundrums of life. If you can penetrate the conundrums presented to you by your teacher, then maybe you […]

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To Be Alive, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth, Zen and Meditation

The Unifying Theory For Building A Good Life

January 22, 2020 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Here is the unifying theory for living a good life and helping the world that summarizes everything I wrote in my book How To Be Alive: Give more energy to what is True for you; give less energy to what is not True for you.

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To Be Alive

On Choosing Your Obligations With Care

June 21, 2018 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

We get scared that being ourselves–following our Truth–won’t get us where we want to be. But if being ourselves gets us there, then maybe that is where we *truly* want to be. So what path should you follow? What life obligations should you choose?

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To Be Alive

The science that predicts whether you will make an impact on the world

June 6, 2018 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

it turns out that, according to the science, one of the biggest predictors of whether we have potential is whether we have people around us who believe that we have potential. This post is about surrounding yourself with people who believe you will have an impact on the world.

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, How To Be Alive, Purpose and Meaning

When Being You Makes You Feel Like An Outsider

May 22, 2018 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Have you ever felt that you being truly you makes, or would make you, an outsider? What is different about you that should be celebrated? How can you bring it out in your community and use it to help others?

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To Be Alive, Spirituality and Personal Growth

Success In What Actually Matters

May 16, 2018 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

The mythology in our culture is that success and happiness are determined by three things: your job, your romantic partnership, and your stuff (including your house). There is only one problem with that. It’s not true. But there is one thing that, the science shows, predicts success in everything that matters–having a robust, interconnected personal community.

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To Be Alive, Relationships, Family and Friendship

Do you ever feel you’ve got it all backwards?

May 8, 2018 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

We are living life backwards. We put most of our efforts into the things that matter least. Why can’t we change? Because we are scared of falling through the cracks and being alone. The antidote to this fear is to find a community of people who share our values.

Filed Under: Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To Be Alive

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