Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life

That blend of meaning and happiness is the good life. And the good life brings an inner serenity—a feeling of peace and contentment—in the midst of the chaotic world.

a willingness to be agents in shaping their lives. The world beckons to each one of us, challenging us to ply our talents and carve our own paths. As the existential philosopher and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl discovered during his World War II concentration camp internment, it is our voluntary action, and not what we’re forced to do, that determine

You might make what researchers call an appreciative inquiry.Bring together a few people who can play a role in the realization of one of your goals.

But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

feeling that results from helping others. Hedonic well-being is the constant pursuit of immediate happiness.

“Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is enlightenment.”

not necessarily every minute of every day, but consistently over the course of time.

Eudaimonic well-being is the

Think of these as experiments; you are a scientist, with your life as your laboratory. Don’t judge your ideas. Use this opportunity to come up with options for things you might do differently.