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It's official. We took a major step in counteracting our lifestyle inflation by completing our sea change (or tree change, or maybe both). Wait...a what? What is a Sea Change or Tree Change? Regardless of the spelling (is it sea …
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This is a companion post to the previous post: Create your Life Purpose with the Flywheel Effect by Jim Collins (note: you can also get a quick intro and video about Collins in that post). As you'll quickly see, the Hedgehog Concept bears a …
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Start here: This post builds on Life Purpose Showdown: Ikigai vs the Hedgehog Concept by Jim Collins What do you do on a 26-hour drive from Kansas City to NorCal? Aside from slow travel, we listened to podcasts. One of the podcasts my wife and …
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What is the art of living? I like how Maria Popova, author of Brain Pickings, seems to describe it from all her reading and writing over the years: In all of them I try to find some little piece that helps us answer, or helps me answer at least, …
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Hang with me on this one. At first glance, you may be surprised to see the names Eckhart Tolle and Rick Warren in the same sentence. Your surprise may turn to sheer shock when I propose to you that 80-90% of their message is the same. How could that …
I'm currently on a mission to read the best books on life purpose. The Purpose Driven Life (Amazon) by Rick Warren is in the top 3 (and quite possibly #1 in terms of sales). I read this book immediately after finishing A New Earth: Awakening to Your …
Continue Reading about Eternal Purpose: “The Purpose Driven Life” by Rick Warren (Book Summary)
