1: Jennifer’s father was ill.
“The two things that he could do to improve his physical condition most significantly are to eat better and exercise,” she tells Jeremie Kubicek and Steve Cockram, who write in their book The 5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There is Never Enough Time.
And, “the two things he refuses to do are eat better and exercise,” she says.
Jennifer … continue reading
1: Interested in learning the secrets of life?
Searching for pure truth?
Would you like to fill your soul “with an understanding of love that knows no boundaries?” Diane Button asks in her book What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living.
Answers to these questions can come from spending time with those near death.
As an end-of-life doula, Diane spends many hours with people in their … continue reading
1: When Diane Button was new to end-of-life care, so many questions flooded her mind.
“I wondered if I would ever get to a place where I would feel comfortable stepping into the home of a dying person with ease and grace,” she writes in her wonderful book What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living.
Fortunately, she had a mentor. “Hospice chaplain Clarence Liu was was … continue reading
1: It was November of 1988, and Terry Looper was on his way to Las Vegas.
Terry owned 10 percent of the company that was about to be sold.
“Once the papers were signed, I should’ve been on top of the world,” he writes in his book Sacred Pace: Four Steps to Hearing God and Aligning Yourself With His Will.
“I was not just a millionaire as I’d always … continue reading
1: “So many of my clients tell me profound, beautiful things about their loved ones,” Diane Button writes in her wonderful book What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living.
Yet, when asked if they have shared those thoughts or would like to write them down so they can be shared, they often reply, “I’m sure they already know” or “It goes without saying.”
As an end-of-life … continue reading
Richard Feynman was a theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
A brilliant thinker, without a doubt.
His true genius, however, was his ability to convey complex ideas in simple, elegant ways, as described by Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life.
“He observed that complexity and jargon,” Sahil notes, “are often used to … continue reading
1: It was a broiling hot day.
Future entrepreneur and venture capitalist Ben Horowitz was early in his career. He was married with three young children.
One day, his father came to visit.
“We could not afford air-conditioning, and all three children were crying as my father and I sat there sweating in the 105-degree heat,” Ben writes in The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There … continue reading
1: “Fortune favors the curious,” Sahil Bloom writes in his book The 5 Types of Wealth.
As it turns out, curiosity is an actual “Fountain of Youth.”
Yesterday, we looked at how curiosity makes us healthier as we age—both mentally and physically.
The bad news? “Unfortunately, that raw childhood curiosity we’re born with slowly atrophies throughout our adult lives,” Sahil writes.
We begin our lives brimming with curiosity. … continue reading
1: Feeling anxious or overwhelmed? Or, perhaps, a bit too full of ourselves?
The stoic Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius has some advice for us:
“Often think of the rapidity with which things pass by and disappear. . . For substance is like a river in continual flow, and the activities of things are in constant change, and the causes work in infinite varieties; and there is hardly anything which stands … continue reading
1: Psychologist John Gottman can predict who will eventually get divorced a stunning 94 percent of the time.
In a pioneering 1992 study, John and his team interviewed fifty-two married couples.
They asked each couple “a variety of questions about how they met, why they decided to get married, and what changes their relationships had been through and observed them as they took part in a fifteen-minute discussion about a … continue reading
