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How Your Stories Make The World You Live In

February 3, 2016 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

The stories we tell ourselves about the world shape our experience of the world. If you let go of the limiting stories you tell yourself about how you can fix your life and help the world, amazing things will follow.

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

What Do You Want From Me?

January 28, 2016 by Colin Beavan 16 Comments

This is the text of the recent email I sent out to our community of lifequesters. If you would like to be part of that community and receive updates about how to build your own good life, join here. Dear Friends. First of all, I want to thank the many of you who responded to […]

Filed Under: How To Be Alive, Personal and General Writing

The Opportunities in Our World Crises In One Drawing

January 20, 2016 by Colin Beavan 3 Comments

    This is one of the many illustrations (click on it to expand) I drew as I was brainstorming for my new book How To Be Alive: A Guide to The Kind of Happiness that Helps The World (you can get a free chapter here and the free workbook here). Here is the text in […]

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Who Do You Matter To?

January 19, 2016 by Colin Beavan 21 Comments

  Do you feel you matter? In an email survey I sent out a while back, people said overwhelmingly that one of the greatest challenges to their quest for a life that is better for them and better for the world is the feeling that they don’t really make a difference. They can’t see that their […]

Filed Under: How To Be Alive, Personal and General Writing

You Already Have Everything So Why Do Anything?

January 3, 2016 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

  Part #1: You Already Have Everything The delusion in wanting more is that–in this moment–there can be no more. Just now is just as it is. And since–in this moment–there can be no more, everything that can possibly be is already here. Don’t make up anything in your mind and you already have everything. […]

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How to Really Know Your Calling

December 30, 2015 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

What many of us want most deeply—assuming our basic needs are met—is to live a kind of life where spontaneously being our Selves is most able to happen again and again (for proof of this assertion, if you need it, look at Part II: How to Want What You Really Want in my new book How […]

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

Build Your House Where You Live

December 28, 2015 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

  Are you rethinking your life as the New Year (or any other transition) approaches? This is the second of two short extracts from my new book How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness that Helps the World about following your calling (find out more and order it here). I hope it helps. Imagine a farmer who has […]

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Go Where You Are Called

December 28, 2015 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

    Are you rethinking your life as the New Year (or any other transition) approaches? This is the first of two short extracts from my new book How to Be Alive: A Guide to the Kind of Happiness that Helps the World about following your calling (find out more and order it here). I hope it helps. […]

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