How education helped me rewrite my life (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: There’s no greater freedom than finding your purpose, says education advocate Ashweetha Shetty. Born to a poor family in rural India, Shetty didn’t let the social norms of her community stifle her dreams and silence her voice. In this personal talk, she shares how she found self-worth through education — and how she’s working to empower other rural youth to explore their potential. “All of us are born into a reality that we blindly accept — until something awakens us and a new world opens up,” Shetty says.
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Steve Goodier Wisdom: Choose It!

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about life perspective. Enjoy!

Two men fell on hard times. Try as they might, they couldn’t find work. They heard that a museum was willing to pay $50 apiece for live rattlesnakes so, in desperation, they decided to catch snakes.

Outfitted with a net and basket, they hiked to a remote area renowned for its large snake population. But as they scaled a steep ledge, the rock gave way and they tumbled down the slippery bank — into a deep pit crawling with angry, hissing rattlesnakes! Read more

Validation (inspirational video)

If you’ve ever forgotten what the magic of life is all about, this short, masterfully produced, award-winning film should serve to make you smile and perhaps even shed a tear of joy. We certainly hope this is the case.

Happiness: What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You (inspirational video)

From the World Minds YouTube channel: Our cultures give us a lot of advice about how to find happiness. Science, however, suggests that much of that advice just isn‘t right. Presented by Don Gilbert at the WORLD.MINDS Annual Symposium in Zurich, Switzerland.

Steve Goodier Wisdom: Lessons From the Court

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about life lessons. Enjoy!

Life lessons can come from unexpected places.

I have learned much about myself from the game of racquetball. In fact, I have learned a great deal over the years about all aspects life and living on the racquetball court. Here are some of the more important lessons that have come from the court:

1.    People play better when they are encouraged. It’s true in          life, too. People do better when they are encouraged, rather than criticized, condemned and judged. Read more

The surprising habits of original thinkers (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most,” Grant says. “You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones.”
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You are not alone in your loneliness (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Being open and vulnerable with your loneliness, sadness and fear can help you find comfort and feel less alone, says writer and artist Jonny Sun. In an honest talk filled with his signature illustrations, Sun shares how telling stories about feeling like an outsider helped him tap into an unexpected community and find a tiny sliver of light in the darkness.

Steve Goodier Wisdom: From the Heart

In this inspirational article, master storyteller, Steve Goodier, shares a key piece of life wisdom about relationships. Enjoy!

Columnist Erma Bombeck once said, “It seems rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners.” Perhaps that is because many of us suffer from what communicator Nido Qubein terms “agenda anxiety” — the feeling that what we want to say to others is more important than what they might want to say to us. Sometimes we try to impress rather than express, not realizing that two monologues do not make a dialogue.

Relationships work when communication works. And communication works when we listen as well as speak; when we relate from the heart as well as the head. Read more

Unlock Your Untapped Potential (inspirational video)

From the Goalcast YouTube channel: UNLOCK YOUR HIDDEN POTENTIAL AND ACHIEVE THE EXTRAORDINARY! In this powerful speech Joe Roberts shares his incredible story of his time as a 15 year old homeless skid row addict and what it took to pull himself out of darkness and despair, to become a highly respected business and community leader.

“Everything happens for a reason” - and other lies I’ve loved (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: In life’s toughest moments, how do you go on living? Kate Bowler has been exploring this question ever since she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer at age 35. In a profound, heartbreaking and unexpectedly funny talk, she offers some answers — challenging the idea that “everything happens for a reason” and sharing hard-won wisdom about how to make sense of the world after your life is suddenly, completely changed. “I believe that in the darkness, even there, there will be beauty and there will be love,” she says.
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