What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTUbe channel: What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you’re mistaken. As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.
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Steve Goodier Wisdom: Just In Time

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

Do you ever worry about what might happen in the future? Or do you find yourself anxious about things over which you have no control? If so, then a teaching from author and lecturer Corrie ten Boom may help.

She learned a powerful lesson as a little girl. Having encountered the cold, lifeless body of a baby, she realized that the reality of death would someday strike her family, too. Perhaps her father or mother or sister, Betsy, would soon die.

She anxiously worried about these possibilities until her father came in one night to tuck her into bed. Corrie burst into tears and sobbed, “I need you. You can’t die. You can’t!” Read more

How to find a wonderful idea (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: Where does OK Go come up with ideas like dancing in zero gravity, performing in ultra slow motion or constructing a warehouse-sized Rube Goldberg machine for their music videos? In between live performances of “This Too Shall Pass” and “The One Moment,” lead singer and director Damian Kulash takes us inside the band’s creative process, showing us how to look for wonder and surprise.
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Faking It, Perfectionism and Living Wholeheartedly (inspirational video)

From the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) YouTUbe channel: In her book Daring Greatly, Dr. Brené Brown identifies 10 qualities people living a wholehearted life have in common. Here, she discusses two with Oprah. Watch to find out why Dr. Brown says inauthenticity is contagious and why perfectionism is really another form of fear.

Joy: It’s Terrifying (inspirational video)

From the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) YouTube channel: Joy is an emotion so many people seek, but, Dr. Brené Brown says, it’s by far the most terrifying feeling we face. Find out why we’re so afraid our joy will be taken away. Plus, discover why Dr. Brown says we can’t find joy without gratitude.

Steve Goodier Wisdom: What Will You Become?

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

“Is it true,” a young boy asked his mother, “that we are made of dust?”

“Yes,” she said.

“And is it true that we go back to dust again when we die?” he continued.

“Yes, dear.”

“Well, Mommy, when I looked under my bed I saw someone who was coming or going, but I don’t know which.”

Of course, a lot of people (like me) don’t always know whether they are coming or going. But he doesn’t have to worry about humans being created and dying under his bed. Read more

Empathy is a Verb (inspirational video)

From the TEDx YouTube channel: Educational psychologist and author, Michele Borba, shares her decade-long journey to discover how to optimize human potential. Surprisingly, it was children from Canada to Rwanda who offered the three best ideas to cultivate empathy. The best news: if applying those simple strategies together we can revolutionize society and build the best investment for our future: human capital. Michele Borba, Ed.D. is an internationally renowned educator, award-winning author, and parenting, child and bullying expert recognized for her solution-based strategies to strengthen children’s empathy and social-emotional intelligence and character, and reduce peer cruelty. A sought-after motivational speaker, she has presented keynotes throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia and the South Pacific and served as a consultant to hundreds of schools and corporations including the Pentagon and 18 US Army bases in Europe and the Asian-Pacific. Her proposal: “Ending School Violence and Bullying” (SB1667) was signed into California law in 2002. She offers realistic, research-based advice culled from a career of working with over one million parents and educators worldwide. She is the author of 24 books, including UNSELFIE: Surprising Role of Empathy to Predict Children’s Happiness and Success (Simon & Schuster, 2016).
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Steve Goodier Wisdom: Surround Yourself with Encouragers

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

Simeon Ford, the proprietor of the Old Grand Union Hotel in New York, said, “You don’t need to know anything about a hotel to run one. You just open up and the customers tell you how to run it.”

That must be true of other businesses, too. I heard of a newspaper editor who called in her assistant and handed him a stack of papers. “These are suggestions sent in by subscribers on how to run our paper. Make sure you carry them out,” she said.

He did. He dropped them into his trash can and carried them out. Read more

Steve Goodier Wisdom: This Wondrous World

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

Not everyone has a good grip of science. But these children’s scientific musings at least show humor and creativity!

To explain nuclear reactions, one child said, “When they broke open molecules, the found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.”

Concerning astronomy, one child said, “Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the day-time.” And another said, “Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.” Read more

Redemption Song: John Legend (inspirational video)

From the TED.com YouTube channel: John Legend is on a mission to transform America’s criminal justice system. Through his Free America campaign, he’s encouraging rehabilitation and healing in our prisons, jails and detention centers — and giving hope to those who want to create a better life after serving their time. With a spoken-word prelude from James Cavitt, an inmate at San Quentin State Prison, Legend treats us to his version of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song.” “Won’t you help to sing these songs of freedom?”
note: song starts at 4:30
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