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Hygge
“Hygge is simply loving the moment that you are in. Hygge is more of a feeling than anything.” ~Maya Thoresen
Radical Candor
“When bosses are too invested in everyone getting along they also fail to encourage the people on their team to criticize one another for fear of sowing discord. They create the kind of work environment where being "nice" is prioritized at the expense of critiquing and therefore improving actual performance.” ~Kim Scott
Dopamine Nation
“The paradox is that hedonism, the pursuit of pleasure for it's own sake, leads to anhedonia. Which is the inability to enjoy pleasure of any kind.” ~Anna Lembke
Finish
“All you have to do is win more today than you did yesterday and repeat the whole thing tomorrow.” ~Jon Acuff
Furiously Happy
“Depression is like … when you don’t want cheese anymore. Even though it’s cheese.” ~Jenny Lawson
Professional Troublemaker
“We will ruffle feathers. We might be the villains in a few people’s stories. We might even blow up a few bridges. But our worth is not based on how much we acquiesced to the people we knew. The goal is to betray ourselves less. So, be kind but take no s**t.” ~Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Fish!
“There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself.” ~Stephen C. Lundin
Burnout
“All your body requires of you is that you turn toward it with kindness and compassion, with nonjudgment and plain-vanilla acceptance of all your contradictory emotions, beliefs, and longings.” ~Emily Nagoski
What Happened To You?
“We elicit from the world what we project into the world; but what you project is based upon what happened to you as a child.” ~Bruce D. Perry
Atlas of the Heart
“Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. We have to ask questions, admit to not knowing, risk being told that we shouldn't be asking, and, sometimes, make discoveries that lead to discomfort.” ~Brené Brown
Dream Big
“We need to replace what we’ve settled for with what we’ve been longing for.” ~Bob Goff
The Happiness Project
“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.” ~Gretchen Rubin
I Don’t Think So
“Today the hijackers are gone, and pain and hopelessness are long forgotten. Captivity? I don’t think so!” ~Melanie Mitchell Epp
Walden on Wheels
“We need so little to be happy. Happiness does not come from things. Happiness comes from living a full and exciting life.” ~Ken Ilgunas
The Power of Personal Accountability
To be more successful, improve relationships, set goals and fulfill dreams, these all require the practice of personal accountability.
Play
“Stepping out of a normal routine, finding novelty, being open to serendipity, enjoying the unexpected, embracing a little risk, and finding pleasure in the heightened vividness of life. These are all qualities of a state of play.” ~Stuart Brown
The 5 Temptations of a CEO
It serves a timeless and potent reminder that success as a leader can come down to practicing a few simple behaviors--behaviors that are painfully difficult for each of us to master. ~from the intro
The Art of Gathering
“Gatherings crackle and flourish when real thought goes into them, when (often invisible) structure is baked into them, and when a host has the curiosity, willingness, and generosity of spirit to try.” ~Priya Parker
Love Does
“I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.” ~Bob Goff
Braving the Wilderness
"True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are." ~Brené Brown