By Jill Suttie — 2020
Having a meaningful, long-term goal is good for your well-being. Here’s how to find one.
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Today’s climate activists are driven by environmental worries that are increasingly more urgent, and which feel more personal.
If we can process our regrets with tenderness and compassion, we can use these hard memories as a part of our wisdom bank.
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I learned very early that to survive in this broken world there is a never-ending need to “support, nurture, and protect what we hold dear” to keep it from being damaged, hurt, or destroyed ……which also includes myself.
Heart, intelligence and courage are all valuable traits, but they pale in comparison to what each of us needs most in the quest to total life success: Personal accountability is No. 1.
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Nelson Mandela was by nature an optimist, but he was as hard-headed as they come. He did not embrace the consoling view of history that, as Martin Luther King said (in a line often quoted by Barack Obama), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.