Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder by Ariana Huffington

"Have you noticed that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?"

I'm guilty of time famine. I'm guilty of turning my attention to too many things resulting in my energy being split in too many directions. I'm guilty of holding my breath while working on something due to trying to be quick & efficient. I'm guilty of living out what I'm taught - to do more to be more.

But is more always better?

Is this race to the top really the top or a make believe mountain that by the time you get to the top, you're not even in the proper condition to smell the wild flowers or soak in the view because you've been racing this whole time? This book hits home to everything we strive to be and finding that balance for well being in our journey getting there.

"Onward, upward, and inward."

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1. Ask yourself the questions that matter.

2. Everything happens for a reason, and there is a time and place for everything to happen.

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever."

3. NTS - stop, take notice. Life.Is.Happening.

"At the traffic crossing, instead of being impatient for the green man, appreciate how the red man gives us a chance to stop, breathe and look around."

4. "...there is literally both no time and all the time in the world."

"Our attention is the fuel that drives our lives...No matter what people say about what they value, what matters is where they put their attention."

5. Mind over matter - what are you allowing yourself to believe?

"Stoicism teaches that unhappiness, negative emotions, and what we would today call "stress" are not inflicted on us by external circumstances and events, but are, rather, the result of the judgments we make about what matters and what we value."

6. Various forms of being in the know and "connected" to others are all around us, but remember to ask check & ask yourself -

"Does the technology deepen the experience, or does it diminish it?"

7. Live a life that excites your spirit.

"We are too quick to censor or judge our natural creative impulses as not being good enough. But we need to give ourselves permission to follow what makes us feel most alive.

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