I believe in the healing quality of the arts and use art making to help others express themselves, to gain personal insight and to
make meaningful life changes.
For the child just beginning to discover the wonder of reading; for the teen striving to
make meaningful life choices; for the unemployed adult struggling to re-enter the workforce; for the retired senior desperate to access and understand computers and the Internet so she can share e-mail with her out - of - town grandchildren, there is no substitute for the public library.
Instead, it is the sort of complex secret that reposes in plain view, an abiding condition that can only be seen, if at all, by standing still and looking, until the pattern emerges and
makes meaningful the life of the subject.
Making meaningful life changes can often take several months or more.
Fortunately, The Cognitive Behavioral Coping Skills Workbook for PTSD synthesizes an array of well - researched strategies, and offers readers a clear path toward expanding their coping repertoire and
making meaningful life changes.
Not exact matches
«Enjoy the adventure that you're currently experiencing and realize the daily highs and lows are what actually
make your
life meaningful.»
This
makes for more
meaningful conversations and ensures that I'm likely to meet the right people at the right time for the betterment of my business and
life.
It's about your determination to provide your customers with the products and services that will
make a
meaningful difference in their business and personal
lives — regardless of the economy.
If we want to break past lackluster economic growth rates and
make meaningful change in
lives and livelihoods, we need to move beyond incremental innovation (think slightly - better iPhones) toward revolutionary innovation (think new energy systems, next - generation electronics, and cures for Cancer and Alzheimer's).
It's not about filling their heads with ancient philosophies and rote facts; it's about filling their hearts with a passion for learning and the desire to
make a difference - to
make their efforts and their
lives meaningful -; both in the near term and in the long run.
Many people get into business not just to
make money, but to
make their work
lives more productive,
meaningful and enjoyable.
The company partnered with a Harvard Business School professor to develop a program that helps their employees manage a better work -
life balance by rethinking their work processes and
making work more
meaningful.
When data tracking systems are designed with consumers in mind, they create a powerful feedback loop that can actually
make a
meaningful difference in people's
lives.
When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your
life story, the telling that will be most compact and
meaningful will be the series of choices you have
made.
Doing
meaningful work gives our
lives purpose and studies show that Millennials are happiest and most engaged at work when they feel they are
making a difference.
You might believe that innovative companies should be a force for good in the world, and you see no contradiction between
making a profit and effecting
meaningful, positive change in people's
lives.
There is no single answer as to what you should decide
makes your
life meaningful.
«With this acquisition, Nokia is strengthening its position in the Internet of Things in a way that leverages the power of our trusted brand, fits with our company purpose of expanding the human possibilities of the connected world, and puts us at the heart of a very large addressable market where we can
make a
meaningful difference in peoples»
lives.»
Going back to the athlete analogy,
life coaching is for anyone who wants to improve their performance — whether you're trying to advance at work or
make more
meaningful personal connections.
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making [21:50] The 5 things you need to be successful [21:55] Create audacious goals [22:15] Why you need problems [22:25] Diagnose the problems to determine the root causes [22:50] Determine the design for what you will do about the root causes [23:00] Decide to work with people who are strong where you are weak [23:15] Push through to results [23:20] The loop of success [24:15] Ray's new instinctual approach to failure [24:40] Tony's ritual after every event [25:30] The review that changed Ray's outlook on leadership [27:30] Creating new policies based on fairness and truth [28:00] What people are missing about Ray's culture [29:30] Creating
meaningful work and
meaningful relationships [30:15] The importance of radical honesty [30:50] Thoughtful disagreement [32:10] Why it was the relationships that changed Ray's
life [33:10] Ray's biggest weakness and how he overcame it [34:30] The jungle metaphor [36:00] The dot collector — deciding what to listen to [40:15] The wanting of meritocratic decision -
making [41:40] How to see bubbles and busts [42:40] Productivity [43:00] Where we are in the cycle [43:40] What the Fed will do [44:05] We are late in the long - term debt cycle [44:30] Long - term debt is going to be squeezing us [45:00] We have 2 economies [45:30] This year is very similar to 1937 [46:10] The top tenth of the top 1 % of wealth = bottom 90 % combined [46:25] How this creates populism [47:00] The economy for the bottom 60 % isn't growing [48:20] If you look at averages, the country is in a bind [49:10] What are the overarching principles that bind us together?
So any
meaningful increase in mortgage rates could
make life difficult for highly leveraged home owners.
«This government could have chosen
meaningful action to
make life more affordable for families.
«An approach to
life in which people do something every day that is
meaningful and satisfying tends to
make people happy.»
Your retirement may include part - time employment, more contact with family and
making meaningful contributions to the
lives of those you love.
Moreover, nothing in their environment suggests that the world is ill constructed or that
life is
made meaningful only by revolt.
However, if you are a single doctor
making $ 300,000 per year, did not have to address a
meaningful debt burden, and only have $ 100,000 in investments at the age of forty, you have done something very wrong (most likely, you either
lived at your means or traded stocks instead of thinking like an owner that
made long - term investments) even if you have that same $ 100,000 in paper wealth because you had the skill set and personal opportunity costs to do so much more with your hand in
life.
Focus, instead, on what's
meaningful: are you
making steady gains of the sort that will allow you to enjoy
life, to
make a difference in the world, and be rich with friends and family?
If you have the answers it
makes life so much more valuable and
meaningful.
Balance will not
make life meaningful.
And it
makes me appreciate my
life with my only son much more
meaningful to me.
The heart still beats, the brain continues to function, the «soul» remains intact, and yet
life —
life meaningful enough to
make it worth the effort — is missing.
What is there in Keen's analysis which
makes his play - therapy theology - particularly given his acceptance of the death of God (i.e., his rejection of the Christian story as rendering
life ultimately
meaningful)?
This
life — A concern for this
life (as opposed to an afterlife) and a commitment to
making it
meaningful through better understanding of ourselves, our history, our intellectual and artistic achievements, and the outlooks of those who differ from us.
I have argued that 2 Timothy 3:16 applies to «All Scripture,» not just the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts, and that it has nothing to do with how Scripture was written, but has everything to do with how God speaks to us through Scripture to
make it profitable,
meaningful, and inspiring in our
lives.
I don't need to add anything to this to
make God a valuable and
meaningful resource in my
life.
or is it to
make the beloved's
life less tragic, more
meaningful?
or is it to
make the beloved's
life more less tragic, more
meaningful?
At The Lasting Supper, we have managed to create an incredibly safe space to deconstruct, to change your beliefs, to lose or morph your faith, to
make dramatic alterations to your
life with
meaningful support, and to be whoever you are with whatever you think.
Its proponents sought to re-establish the vital connection between the student and the curriculum and thus to
make the effort of learning
meaningful, by relating studies to the student's own actual
life situations.
It seemed like she was finally seeing a
meaningful purpose for herself and might even be able to
make up to some degree for the way she had been
living the last few years.
Having additional purpose for your
life can help to
make each day more
meaningful.
Their most bitter attacks were directed against the social gospelers who were trying to
make salvation
meaningful for the total
life.
Moments of pure experience are like
making an emotional connection with the infinite — This is all we can know and a way of
life that ensures no matter what happens your
life has been
meaningful.
Clearly this activity will be taking place somewhere, because human existence is too problematic for people to stop searching for ideas and ways of
living that will
make everyday
life meaningful.
In his recent book,
Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy ca
Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity, he offers «four benefits» of mortality: interest and engagement, suggesting that adding, say, twenty years to the human
life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy ca
life span would not proportionately increase the pleasures of
life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy ca
life; seriousness and aspiration, proposing that the knowledge that our
life is limited is what leads us to take life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy ca
life is limited is what leads us to take
life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring makes that season all the more meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own life for a worthy ca
life seriously and passionately; beauty and love, presenting the idea that it is precisely their perishability that
makes, for instance, flowers beautiful to us, just as the coming and going of spring
makes that season all the more
meaningful; and, finally, virtue and moral excellence, by which he means the virtuous and noble deeds that mortality
makes possible, including the sacrifice of our own
life for a worthy ca
life for a worthy cause.
Lowen points out that «as long as the ego dominates the individual he can not have the oceanic or transcendental experiences that
make life meaningful.»
Indeed there is little point in our
making reference to revelation unless it brings with it an unexpected power to
make reality more intelligible and our
lives more
meaningful.
God, as chief causative principle and as supreme affect, is «in this world or he is nowhere»; biblical material, and in relation to it Christian liturgical and hymnological imagery, with the theological articulation of this, intend to
make affirmations which are to be found in the pictures and forms and myths — and these we must seek to
make meaningful and valid for ourselves in our present existence; man is an «embodied» and a social occasion or series (or «routing») of occasions, organic to the world of nature, and can only truly
live as he
lives in due recognition of these facts and sees them as integral to himself.
We choose to want each other and to
make life meaningful with each other.
The context for the entire treatment will be a consistent and coherent worldview that in my belief is appropriate to the Christian tradition of faith, worship, and
life and that at the same time can
make sense to men and women today in their desire for a
meaningful interpretation of their existence, of the world in which that existence is found, and of the divine reality we call God.