Motivation & Inspiration

Live the Life of Your Dreams

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Light your inner fire to design and build the future you deserve

By The Blinkist Curators

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Motivation & Inspiration

We all go through moments when we feel happy and fulfilled, and moments when we feel dissatisfied with and stuck in our lives. The fact that life is always full of ups and downs doesn't mean that you can't live it in a way that maximizes the good moments that lead to success and happiness. This collection will wake you up to the endless possibilities of life and help put you on the path to designing the life you deserve to live!

Live the Life of Your Dreams

Light your inner fire to design and build the future you deserve

Tim Ferriss: How to Address Fears and Take Risks

Tim Ferriss: How to Address Fears and Take Risks

Bestselling author, entrepreneur, and podcast host Tim Ferriss knows a thing or two about fear and risk. He has reached millions of people with his ideas by redefining what risk truly means, and slowly building up a resilience against the fears of failure and embarrassment. In this episode, he’ll share his strategies for both of these with us all.

Elevate

An Essential Guide to Life

You Are a Badass

You Are a Badass

How To Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life

Glennon Doyle: Living Wild

Glennon Doyle: Living Wild

What would a wilder, freer version of you look like? Many of us don’t know the answer to this question because we spend so long trying to hold back parts of our truer self or correct them. In this episode, Glennon Doyle—author of New York Times bestselling book Untamed—explores the importance of living wild and learning to re-trust in our deep desires. Glennon will teach you how to recognize the difference between surface-level and deep desires in order to reconnect with a wilder, more authentic version of yourself.

Elaine Welteroth: Building Dreams

Elaine Welteroth: Building Dreams

How do you build your dream career—one that honors the journey of life and isn’t necessarily about reaching a fixed point? Elaine Welteroth is the New York Times bestselling author of More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say). In this episode, she joins Emma to help you recognize when it's time to say goodbye to your current job (no matter how grand the title) and discover something new. Emma offers you a toolbox of questions that will prevent you from getting stuck in roles that no longer serve you so that you keep on evolving and developing your skill set.

Live It!

Achieve Success by Living With Purpose

Thrive

Arianna Huffington

The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder

A Common Path To Uncommon Success: John Lee Dumas

A Common Path To Uncommon Success: John Lee Dumas

In this episode, author and podcast host John Lee Dumas shows you how you can apply tried-and-tested success techniques that thousands of high-achieving entrepreneurs have used. Choose your path, embrace the hard work with discipline, harness mentorship smartly and focus to make yourself stand out. If you apply these simple practices with ambition and vision—you just might reach uncommon levels of success!

Am I in the Right Job?

Am I in the Right Job?

Do you sometimes wonder if the job, or the career that you're in isn't the right one for you? That's fine. But if you're questioning it all the time, then that's a sign that you need to re-evaluate things. In today's episode you'll learn how to recognize if the job really isn't right for you, or if the real issue isn't so much the job, but rather how you go about it—or about life. With the help of two practical exercises you'll be able to better understand what it is that's blocking you, so that you can either commit to the path that you're on or find a new one.

Get Your Sh*t Together

Get Your Sh*t Together

A No F*cks Given Guide

Preethaji and Krishnaji: Reduce Your Daily Suffering

Preethaji and Krishnaji: Reduce Your Daily Suffering

Many of us live life from a suffering state without even realizing it. In this episode, philosophy and meditation teachers Krishnaji and Preethaji identify the characteristics of living in a suffering state versus living in a beautiful state—and explain to us all how we can make that transition.

Life’s Amazing Secrets

Life’s Amazing Secrets

How to Find Balance and Purpose in Your Life

The Happiness Toolbox

The Happiness Toolbox

Work hard, be successful, and then at last be happy—right? We think that we need to follow this sequence of events, believing it must be easier when we get more successful. It's a model many of us have been taught, but according to Neil Pasricha—author of The Happiness Equation—we have it completely backwards! Neil discovered first-hand that some of the most successful people out there aren’t actually happy. So, he set himself on a mission to find out how to actually change our mood today, rather than hoping it changes some time in the future. In this episode, you'll hear 7 tools from Neil’s book which are scientifically proven to provide an instant happiness boost.

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