Archives for August 2009
Doing What You Love: The Commencement Speech of Steve Jobs
Follow Your Bliss: The Story of Paul Potts
Yesterday's article was about doing what you love and following your bliss, which is a term developed by Joseph Campbell. What does following your bliss and doing what you love look like? It obviously is different for every … [Read more...]
Do What You Love: The Art of Following Your Bliss
An important ingredient to living a Low Density Lifestyle is doing work that you find meaningful and is an expression of who you are. This is called Doing What You Love. This is the subject of this series - the ability to, as Joseph Campbell put it, "Follow Your Bliss." Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects … [Read more...]
The A to Z of Low Density Lifestyle Living
The A to Z of living A Ardor, Live life with spirit and vigor B Beauty, See the beauty in all people and things around C Courage, Engage in the challenges that come, with energy D Daring, Dare to live life to the full E Essential, keep to the essence of living F Friendship, be a friend; in friendship we reach into our souls G Gambol, gambol on the tree tops, catch the first rays of the sun, let the … [Read more...]
The A-Z of Low Density Lifestyle Living…Plus Summer Hiatus Time
We here at the Low Density Lifestyle website are going on a summer hiatus for 2 weeks and will be back on Tuesday, Aug. 25 with the next series of articles, on the topic of Do What You Love. And that's because Do What You Love is [Read more...]
Happiness is…Being a Free Spirit
I end this series on Happiness - and I also begin a two week summer hiatus (I'm off to do some Low Density Lifestyle living) - with the above incredible time lapse video that captures the spirit of living a Low Density Lifestyle. The video is about being FREE - which stands for Flow, Relax, and Effortless Effort - and about … [Read more...]
Why Are So Many People Unhappy?
The Happiest Man in New York
Making Other People Happy Will Make You Happy
The Happiness series continues this week (for its final week) with a look at a very basic truth, a truth that stems from the question that I asked with the very first article in this series. The question was: Are you happy? Every article since in this Happiness series has played on that question. The article on the country of Bhutan … [Read more...]