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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c308b34 | Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life. We repeat about 40 percent of our behavior almost daily, so our habits shape our existence, and our future. If we change our habits, we change our lives. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 8de2d30 | Boredom can be important. That's when you have to figure out what you want to do. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 8d32c08 | To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 582afeb | Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| e28afde | note: people weigh their highest on Sunday;14 their lowest, on Friday morning.) | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 5ba6191 | We all must pay, but we can choose that for which we pay. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| b8ece6c | Although people sometimes assume that the happy are self-absorbed and complacent, just the opposite is true. In general, happiness doesn't make people want to drink daiquiris on the beach; it makes them want to help rural villagers gain better access to clean water. | happiness | Gretchen Rubin | |
| cab2d5c | Of all the things that wisdom provides for living one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 3ca0501 | It's easy to make the mistake of thinking that if you have something you love or there's something you want, you'll be happier with more. | happiness money | Gretchen Rubin | |
| fd8d1b6 | There's no magic formula--not for ourselves, and not for the people around us. We won't make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people's habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| ecaca7a | When deciding what to buy, remember that some things are easy to buy--but then we have to them. If they're not used, they don't enhance our lives; they just contribute to guilt and clutter. | shopping | Gretchen Rubin | |
| e6bfc3e | Instead of always worrying about being efficient, I wanted to spend time on exploration, experimentation, digression, and failed attempts that didn't always look productive. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| c1e1fb3 | One of life's small pleasures is to return something to its proper place; | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| e02a1b9 | Challenge: we find personal meaning in pursuing a goal that's difficult but not impossible. Curiosity: we're intrigued and find pleasure in learning more. Control: we like the feeling of mastery. Fantasy: we play a game; we use our imagination to make an activity more stimulating. Cooperation: we enjoy the satisfaction of working with others. Competition: we feel gratified when we can compare ourselves favorably to others. Recognition: we'r.. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| ec2b13e | By mindfully choosing our habits, we harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 79eae20 | the real key to habits is decision making--or, more accurately, the lack of decision making | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 403536e | Second Splendid Truth One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to e happy yourself. p 147 | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 8c7265f | As Samuel Johnson said, "To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy." | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| e6047d5 | In many ways, the happiness of having children falls into the kind of happiness that could be called fog happiness. Fog is elusive. Fog surrounds you and transforms the atmosphere, but when you try to examine it, it vanishes. Fog happiness is the kind of happiness you get from activities that, closely examined, don't really seem to bring much happiness at all--yet somehow they do. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 98a7e2a | According to Aristotle, "Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| 6c37cac | If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly. | Gretchen Rubin | ||
| e0d9cc3 | All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was that being white seemed to play so important a part in the assigning of values. | Walter Dean Myers | ||
| 0f5b3ee | To achieve results. This is the only true measure of a team P.42 | teamwork | Patrick Lencioni | |
| 80d290f | Keep in mind that a real team should be spending considerable time together in meetings and working sessions. In fact, it is not uncommon that as much as 20 percent of each team member's time is spent working through issues and solving problems with the team as a whole. p. 105 | problem-solving | Patrick Lencioni | |
| 3ca7d2f | How many of you would rather go to a meeting than a movie?" No hands went up. "Why not?" After a pause, Jeff realized that her question was not a rhetorical one. "Because movies are more interesting. Even the bad ones." His peers chuckled. Kathryn smiled. "Right. But if you really think about it, meetings should be at least as interesting as movies." | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 7407331 | Ironically, for peer-to-peer accountability to become a part of a team's culture, it has to be modeled by the leader. That's right. Even though I said earlier that the best kind of accountability is peer-to-peer, the key to making it stick is the willingness of the team leader to do something I call "enter the danger" whenever someone needs to be called on their behavior or performance. That means being willing to step right into the middle.. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| c3632ea | Teams have to eliminate ambiguity and interpretation when it comes to success | clarity team teamwork | Patrick Lencioni | |
| 475be3d | when leaders fail to tell employees that they're doing a great job, they might as well be taking money out of their pockets and throwing it into a fire, | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 7afb4fb | What clients want more than anything is to know that we're more interested in helping them than we are in maintaining our revenue source. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 612b84e | Nowhere does this tendency toward artificial harmony show itself more than in mission-driven nonprofit organizations, most notably churches. People who work in those organizations tend to have a misguided idea that they cannot be frustrated or disagreeable with one another. What they're doing is confusing being nice with being kind. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| c4de888 | I honestly believe that in this day and age of informational ubiquity and nanosecond change, teamwork remains the one sustainable competitive advantage that has been largely untapped. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 65a96cc | If you ask me, the best thing that's happened in the last year is that we've almost become a jackass-free zone. No matter what happens, and what challenge we might face, give me a roomful of people who aren't jackasses, and I'll be happy to take it on. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| a80e8d9 | When team members trust one another, when they know that everyone on the team is capable of admitting when they don't have the right answer, and when they're willing to acknowledge when someone else's idea is better than theirs, the fear of conflict and the discomfort it entails is greatly diminished. When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer. It is not only okay but .. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| a7f7b6f | At the heart of vulnerability lies the willingness of people to abandon their pride and their fear, to sacrifice their egos for the collective good of the team. While this can be a little threatening and uncomfortable at first, ultimately it becomes liberating for people who are tired of spending time and energy overthinking their actions and managing interpersonal politics at work. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 09c0aad | organizations learn by making decisions, even bad ones. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 0794c59 | Most people are generally reasonable and can rally around an idea that wasn't their own as long as they know they've had a chance to weigh in. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| e956d76 | every organization must contribute in some way to a better world for some group of people, because if it doesn't, it will, and should, go out of business. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 5db43e3 | Healthy organizations believe that performance management is almost exclusively about eliminating confusion. They realize that most of their employees want to succeed, and that the best way to allow them to do that is to give them clear direction, regular information about how they're doing, and access to the coaching they need. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 4b7a4a0 | Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 7a8162b | Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 31540ed | most of a leadership team's objectives should be collective ones. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 423f6e0 | Therefore, it is key that leaders demonstrate restraint when their people engage in conflict, and allow resolution to occur naturally, as messy as it can sometimes be. This can be a challenge because many leaders feel that they are somehow failing in their jobs by losing control of their teams during conflict. Finally, as trite as it may sound, a leader's ability to personally model appropriate conflict behavior is essential. By avoiding co.. | Patrick Lencioni | ||
| 3ba6cc3 | There is nothing inherently metaphoric about such claims of basic experiential morality as "Health is good," "It is better to be cared for than uncared for," "Everyone ought to be protected from physical harm," and "It is good to be loved." However, as soon as we develop such claims into a full-fledged human morality, we find that virtually all of our abstract moral concepts-justice, rights, empathy, nurturance, strength, uprightness, and s.. | George Lakoff | ||
| 4065730 | Deeply embedded in conservative and liberal politics are different models of the family. Conservatism, as we shall see, is based on a Strict Father model, while liberalism is centered around a Nurturant Parent model. These two models of the family give rise to different moral systems and different discourse forms, that is, different choices of words and different modes of reasoning. Once | George Lakoff |