This week’s external resource isn’t what I set out to find. After checking Wharton’s Knowledge@Wharton, I went to my trusty stand-by: the HBR Blogs.
But even there I didn’t find what I had initially sought: something by Umair Haque or Tony Schwartz.
Instead, I found this great article by Judith Glaser. As soon as she mentioned cortisol and the limbic brain I was hooked.
I hope you find the article useful and interesting.
I was talking with someone who said they weren’t really saving much anymore. He said he was using an online finances tracker that integrates with his accounts and tracks expenditures, income and assets but despite long-time use, just about everything that was coming in was going right back out. For me this begs a question:…
“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.” – Epictetus I’ve heard this put another way: happiness is not getting getting what you want, but wanting what you get. Your thoughts… ?
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely* try to help another without helping himself. – Emerson Everything is sticky, whether you’re generous or stingy, helpful and conniving, thoughtful or selfish, . . . everything rubs off on you. Be very careful what you rub up against – whether it’s…
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. – Pema Chodron Do…
For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness. – Emerson This reminds me of something I like to remind myself of something (I believe) the Buddha said: “Anger is like swallowing poison expecting your enemy to die.” I like to view anger in such a (useful) way. Do you agree? After…
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. – Brian Tracy The rudder of a sailboat doesn’t control the sea, but it does make a huge difference in where the boat goes. Goals are much the same. Without goals, one is rudder-less, blown about by the sea. But, with goals, one…