When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy.  – Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Writing down your soul?
What does that mean?
Janet Conner explains very eloquently in her book: ‘Writing Down your Soul’ and in this interview, that the ‘Soul’ is a name for that part of you, inside you, that’s wise and knowing. And that anyone, that’s right anyone, can access that wisdom readily by following the 4 steps below.
Not too long ago Janet’s life changed, very dramatically. While in the throes of that situation, …

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of. – Bruce Lee

overwhelmed
There are two forces that often drive us daily. We want to get things done and at the same time we don’t want to really do many of them!
Why is that?
Some big reasons why we don’t or can’t get things done are:

Having too much to do: We get overwhelmed by it all.
Not having an effective system/process to take care of ‘things to do’.

As a result we procrastinate as much as we possibly …

We can do no great things, only small things with great love. – Mother Teresa
to do great things start small
The teacher would look approvingly into the eyes of the pupil and say, “You got that right, great effort, now let’s look at the next problem, I think you can get this one too!”. The pupil would nod. Inside his head he would think, ‘Wow I must know a few things if this very smart science teacher thinks of me in this fashion, sure glad I made this effort!”.
You see this …

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. – William James
what one thing?
What one thing can you focus on, just one thing, which will improve your life, your whole life, in dramatic ways? It’s not education, it’s not planning, it’s not hard work alone…
You guessed it, it’s through what I call the attitude with gratitude. With this one attitude you can jumpstart your physical well-being, relationships, professional life, well your whole approach to life itself!
What is an attitude with gratitude? It’s approaching everything in life, all …

The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. – Ben Franklin
I’ve always been intrigued by this topic. What is happiness and how do you achieve it? So over time I’ve come up with my own understanding! Part of the formula is, as you might agree, setting meaningful goals and then setting out to achieve those goals.
In that vein I decided to research happiness!
What is happiness?
Definition for happy:

o – feeling pleasure: feeling or showing pleasure, contentment, or joy
o – causing pleasure: causing or …