Functional Life

When your team asks you want you want, here's what you tell them.

Suppose that you calculate that you’re going to need $250,000 in order to be able to finance your life goals.

Are you frustrated? We know we are. Most of us prepared hard for the future we expected, and yet things aren't working out as we had planned.

Consistently do these five things and the results you want from your employees--and your business--will follow.

Increasingly, the stories people tell me about their work and life choices break the conventional mold:...

These ten tips from the Dean of Personal Development, Earl Nightingale, will help you to build your self-esteem and increase your self-confidence.

I told my dad, “I’m a lucky guy.” He said, “But are you lucky in love?” I was six years old. Love was the most disgusting thing in the world to me. What the hell was he talking about? Love was living in another neighborhood at that time. Or another planet. It would be years before Love stuck its ugly little nose into my house and said, “hello, anyone here?

Pin ItAnything that you want to achieve in life will require that you tolerate some discomfort.

Pin ItI have a Squidoo lens which contains 1000 Ideas for Your Bucket List which is very popular and gets lots of traffic. Of course, a bucket list is a list of life goals.

This is the next installment in a series on The Next Web, in partnership with Steve Kamb from Nerd Fitness. Guides to staying healthy, without giving up your geek lifestyle.

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TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
MODERATION. Avoid extreams; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloaths, or habitation.
TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another’s peace or reputation.
HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Here are 9 ways to harness the power of enthusiasm to ensure that you have the energy that you need to pursue your dreams and desires.

The beauty about being small is that you get the same qualitative information on your business model as when you are a giant. So there is value in being small, and learning about your own business and its environment.

For the past several nights I've been quiet. I've practiced yoga, made vegetable soups and curled up on my sofa to watch TED Talks.

The truth is, I love being alone. My downtime ...

Why are you here? It's arguably life's most important question, but is it one you ask yourself? I recognize it's a question some people might view as self-indulgent, while others would see it primarily through a religious lens.