Posts filed under “Happiness”
The Most Important Lesson You’ll Ever Learn About Opportunity
rss | t | g+ Two shoe makers go to a remote village. One of them immediately gives up and goes home, declaring, “It’s hopeless! Nobody here wears shoes.” The other, smiling, declares “What a glorious business opportunity! Nobody here wears shoes”. Opportunity is something that you discover, not something that you wait for Whether it’s new business [...]
Lessons learned from snow & blossoms
rss | t | g+ Oh, snow. It’s pretty at first, but then it turns grey and slushy, getting into your shoes and freezing your toes. Then there’s the winter wind that makes your nose turn red and your eyes start to water. In Japan, the cherry blossoms came to mark the beginning of spring. The air is warm [...]
Make your own future
rss | t | g+ “Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.” - Dalai Lama Do you keep a diary? If you don’t, I highly recommend it. I guarantee [...]
On Mindfulness
rss | t | g+ Three years ago, since starting Minimal Student (on a whim – like most of the things I end up doing), my life has gone through some very distinct phases – I moved away from home, I spent a year abroad in Japan, I came back to England and got my own place… and during [...]
Spiritual Revolution
“What I propose is a spiritual revolution” ~ Dalai Lama As political freedom spreads to more people and technology integrates into our lives, one would think that man’s quest for happiness is more obtainable than ever. And yet, there is still so much suffering in the world. There is still discrimination, war and violence. People [...]
The Best Investment You’ll Ever Make
If someone said to you that they would give you $1000 to spend in any way you like, but with only one rule, would you listen to what they had to say? The rule is: you must spend the money on making your dreams come true. Want to play? The trick is, all of us [...]
How you see
Life doesn’t get better or worse, just how you see it does. We all experience bad things in our lives, some worse than others. Some problems we have are minor and some are quite life changing. But whilst we’re concentrating on the our failures, mistakes or heck even natural disasters, sometimes we forget that good [...]
Happy Birthday to you
Chances are, it isn’t your birthday today. (If it is, then happy birthday!) Birthday’s are great because people do things on this special day that they wouldn’t do otherwise. Mainly, they have fun. They’ll go out of their way to throw a party, gather with family and friends or do something that will make everybody [...]
Simple Philosophies – Live like you’ve only got once chance
You only live once… but if you make it worthwhile, once is all you need. Right now, millions of people out there are so busy working to buy more and more stuff, they forget that they’re wasting something so precious that they will only ever have one of it, no matter how much money they [...]
One amazing thing
by Jessica Dang | Twitter The average human life span is around 80 years. In that time, we can achieve many things – from getting a nice house, a collectable car, or reaching a million dollars, to raising good children, having our own business, or doing some good in the community. Most of this stuff [...]