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Happy New Year! Fly into fireworks #magic
Fireworks are magic. My new year eve was warm and magic, I hope yours was too! In my home town (Almaty) new year eve is celebrated with the fireworks- not the public ones but the ones done by many people … Continue reading
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Tagged drone, fireworks, happiness, magic, new year, nomad, tech, universe
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Inspiration for happy life — 30 things I’ve learned by Nick Crocker
Sometimes it’s useful to read posts like this one. Nothing in it is new, but it’s a list of principles of someone who lives a happy life (or strives to) and hence it’s helpful. Any checklist for happy life, any … Continue reading
Strategies For Happiness, Medical Angle
I must confess, I am a bit of a hypochondriac. I love reading about health, watching medical shows and I do follow a couple of doctors on twitter. So for those of you preferring a medical angle on happiness, I … Continue reading
14 Most Powerful Ted Talks For Disruptive Career Change
If you are trying to radically change what you do (I am at the moment) or are thinking about it, this playlist should provide the ideas and inspiration. If you are an overnight success story or not, keep trying! How … Continue reading
Hello, Fig Inspired. Cry Of A Fox
As we say on this blog, art therapy is great for happiness. My favourite art is surrealism, Picasso, Dali, et al, my favourites are usually the contemporary art museums, the painting I am obsessed with at the moment is Bosch’s … Continue reading
What Does Your Inner Voice Tell You?
Who said it? My friend Justin I believe. Eckhart Tolle is a bit like Marmite – you either love him or hate him 🙂 Yes, he is slightly out of this world. Yes, he holds weird TV meditations where for … Continue reading
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Tagged eckhart tolle, happiness, inner voice, nomad, now, power of now
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Wikipedia Of Expat Living In Holland
I’ve spent too much time on the subject of happiness lately 🙂 Now back to Holland, my current place of residence. It’s been raining for 2 weeks, pretty much non stop, so the weather is not too exciting at the … Continue reading
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Tagged cool dutch, dutch, expat blog, happiness, holland, iamexpat, netherlands, nomad
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Fight Or Flight
It’s easy to put us into this mode, isn’t it? Unknown noise, unexpected movement, fleeting moments when peripheral vision imagines it saw something… I have recently realised that most of my life I have been in a fleeing mode. I … Continue reading
Happiness Junkies
Can you get fixated on the pursuit of happiness? Absolutely! Happiness junkies (a good example in today’s article), fixate on it so much that inevitably lose the object of their pursuit out of their view entirely. Desperately wanting to be happy … Continue reading
Reintroducing Wisdom In Everyday Life
Alain de Botton is a genius. My favourite living philosopher. He helped me change my thinking about so many things. I follow him on Twitter and his School of Life on Facebook. I read several of his books. This recent … Continue reading
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Tagged alain de botton, envy, happiness, meaning of life, nomad, wisdom
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How Creating A Wolf (Or Any Other Art) Can Make You Happy
As I decided to finally start doing something about my passions (see my previous post), I have defined 3 areas that I am going to ‘try anything’ in. 20 seconds of ‘insane courage’ is all I need 🙂 One is … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, art therapy, cartoon, creation, happiness, impact, make a difference, nomad, wolf, writing, youtube
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Find What You Love And Let It Kill You
I follow a few blogs on positive thinking, happiness, personal development, changing your life, pursuing your passion, etc. Mind you, reading a lot is good but useless if there is no action coming out of it. I am actually thinking of … Continue reading
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Tagged epiphany, escape, fail, fear, happiness, James Rhodes, manifesto, nomad, passion
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Don’t Argue, Be Happy
Heard an interesting story recently. It went along these lines: – What is the secret of your success? – I don’t argue. This frees up time and energy. – Ok… But surely some arguing sometimes is actually useful? – Sure. … Continue reading
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Tagged argument, ego, energy, happiness, jason silva, nomad, power of now, time
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Networking, Career Club And A Twesume
So I am looking for a job. Made my first twesume, had fun doing it, check it out: awesome marketer, 10+ yrs intl mkng experience, 4 a role in sustainability/ NGO/ social/ startup #twesume #hireme For marketing, I find the … Continue reading
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Tagged amsterdam, career, coaching, happiness, netherlands, networking, nomad, recruitment, twesume, universe
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Softer. Kinder. Slower (On The Subject Of Purpose)
I have found this post in my bookmarks recently. It’s been written before Christmas, but it’s a timeless treasure, and for me was the perfect summary on the whole purpose/ sense of life subject, together with Peter Bregman’s brilliant post … Continue reading