“If you don’t design your life, someone else will design it for you and you just might not like their idea of balance.” – Nigel Marsh

Work-life balance continues to be an ongoing challenge as the boundaries between work and life blend and blur in our “always on”, increasingly connected world.

“When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.” – Unknown

Meet Ed Jezierski. Ed is CTO of InSTEDD. InSTEDD is a non-profit that helps the world deal with diseases and disasters through technology and innovation.

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

This is a story of a person, who started a new chapter in their life. They decided to follow their dream and write their story forward.

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” –Jonathan K. Foster

Your “Experiencing-Self” lives in the present. It’s the one that answers the question, how you feel? Your “Remembering-Self” lives in the past. It’s the one that answers the question, “How have you been feeling?”

“An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgments simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.” — Edward de Bono

Would life be better if somebody could tell us the right thing to do at all possible times?

In this video, the “Last Lecture,” Randy Pausch talks about his dreams, enabling the dreams of others, and what lets you get to achieve your dreams.  The idea of the last lecture is a hypothetical question, “if you knew were going to die, and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?”  For Randy, it wasn’t hypothetical.  He was fighting pancreatic cancer.  This talk is not about death, though.  It’s about life and how to live.  Specifically, it’s about achieving childhood dreams and about how you …

You don’t need to get what you want to be happy. You can be just as happy if you don’t get what you want, as you can if you get what you want. It’s not just sour grapes. You can manufacture your own happiness. It’s synthetic happiness. Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, teaches us that synthetic happiness is just as real and enduring as real happiness. Dan also teaches us that our longings and worries are overblown because we have the capacity to create happiness within ourselves rather than depend on experiences.