By Emiliana Simon-Thomas — 2018
Research reveals the steps you can take toward greater well-being, health, and productivity at work.
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People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity.
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Having a meaningful, long-term goal is good for your well-being. Here’s how to find one.
In a path to heal, a clinician guides a veteran through a conversation with an imaginary and benevolent “moral authority” to talk about the act or event that has caused suffering. The patient then describes the regret and sorrow that has followed, and asks for forgiveness or a chance to atone.
Soldiers are always supposed to be thinking. That’s what West Point teaches its cadets, who are officers in training. You’re supposed to question the orders you’re given, to see whether they conform to the Geneva Conventions and the laws of war.
The process to uncover your purpose after a career in military service takes great introspection.
We look at the word “purpose” as something we go on a 10 year quest for … searching under rocks, climbing up mountains, and crossing over seas. We’re exhausting ourselves mentally, emotionally, and physically running after it. But, what if it was already on you?
As simple as it sounds, having a strong "why" behind your business is an essential ingredient for becoming a successful entrepreneur.
Whether you’re looking for a new job or considering a new career direction, this month’s article has plenty of practical advice to help you.
Selfhood and relationships are the two poles of one single fact. Birth demands of us that we come to know ourselves, what we are. But it calls upon us also to seek to discover the why of our existence; this discovery can never come to us fully except through human relationships.
Author Dan Millman writes that just as we can divide the points on a compass into four directions and the days of the year into four seasons, we can give order and structure to our life experience by looking at it through a filter of four purposes.