25 Lessons When You’re Ready for a Simpler Life

Simplicity is ultimately a product of focusing on what matters.

1. A simpler life is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.  Thus, you are wealthy in proportion to the number of unnecessary things you can afford to live without.
2. Simplifying is not merely seeing how little you can get by with – that’s poverty – but how efficiently you can put first things first, and use your time accordingly to pursue the things that make a difference and mean the most to you.

7 Things You Gain When You Let Go of Control

When you try to control too much, you enjoy too little.  Sometimes you just need to let go, relax, take a deep breath and love what is.

This morning I met up with an old friend, someone whom I care about deeply but have internally struggled with for years because I’ve always been worried about her health.

I want to help her heal, because I feel I’m losing her.

A single talent is not a ticket to success in life. It must be nurtured on a daily basis.

You must challenge yourself and look for an opportunity to try new things and succeed in those things. It is with this kind of open mind and thirst for intellectual adventure that you will discover and push the limits of your true potential.

2 - Ambition Opens a World of Discovery to You

Imagine a world with no ambition. We would be without nearly everything we hold dear. The great thinkers, inventors and businesspeople of the 20th and 21st centuries would have sat back and continued to sell ice from carts and horses from stables.

A single talent is not a ticket to success in life. It must be nurtured on a daily basis.

Give yourself a moment to appreciate what you’ve achieved, but no more. When the time comes to move forward, success is but a single point on a much longer journey - it is not the end of that journey. Google.com

Imagine a company like Apple stopping after the iPod or Henry Ford deciding the Model T was good enough. Where would be today without people constantly striving to improve upon what they’ve already achieved?

When Each Define Our Success in Life

1 - What Are You Waiting for to be Happy?
Happiness is not out of reach. It is not a pot of gold at the end of an infinite rainbow. It is right in front of you, waiting to be grabbed and enjoyed.
We imagine men and women whose lives have lead them to success young and all the things they can do that we equate with happiness, but the truth is different. These people reach such a high level of success because they learned young how to be happy in everything they do.
They don’t define themselves by material milestones - they enjoy the journey, success, failure and all

7 Game of Thrones stars to see on the big screen this year!

Natalie Dormer and Gwendoline Christie will be part of the Mockingjay revolution! (Getty Images)

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 Cape Town – If you're a big Game of Thrones fan like us, we're pretty sure you're suffering from GOT withdrawal.

And while we will have to wait for an entire year to see our favorite characters again and to find out if Jon Snow is really dead, there is one consolation.
While a number of them are currently working on movies we will be able to catch some of them on the big screen before the end of the year.
Here's who to keep an eye out for.
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50 Happiness Quotes to Change the Way You Think

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
―Abraham Lincoln

It usually isn’t what you have, where you are, or what you’ve been through that makes you happy or unhappy, it’s how you think about it all.  It starts on the inside.  You control your thoughts.  The only person who can hurt your happiness in the long run is YOU.
Here are 50 thought-provoking quotes about happiness gathered from recent entries in our blog archive that will help you think on the bright side.

1. It only takes one person to make you happy and change your life:  YOU