By Paula Felps — 2014
Get fit, feel happy. Or is it the other way around?
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What matters is not so much the “what” of a job, but more the “who” and the “why”: Job satisfaction comes from people, values, and a sense of accomplishment.
Want to grow your well-being? Here are the skills you need.
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Setting goals can help you change and improve, achieve satisfaction, and feel like you are moving through your life and your career with direction. But it isn’t easy; goal-setting takes time and commitment.
Our values are those deep down beliefs we hold about our purpose and our place in the world. Values might be considered our soul’s expression—they tell us who we are.
So many successful people credit their sense of self and their confidence to their success. But not many people really explain how to build confidence, or how to become confident.
Setting goals points us in the right direction and helps us clarify our values. But hanging on to goals when they no longer serve us is a recipe for misery.
In this essay, I discuss what enduring happiness means according to the Buddhist perspective and the ways in which the Dalai Lama embodies this enduring happiness.