Want Happiness? Practice Minimalism
Being a spiritual minimalist also means not succumbing to the negativity around us. We may not be able to avoid all negativity, but we can limit our exposure to it.
Being a spiritual minimalist also means not succumbing to the negativity around us. We may not be able to avoid all negativity, but we can limit our exposure to it.
Working smarter requires a combination of critical thinking, discipline, and techniques that we can employ for making continual progress.
To be an entrepreneur, you have to be willing to jump into the deep end. And that takes courage. But courage is just the beginning. At a fundamental level, most entrepreneurs need to repeatedly overcome adversity and pursue opportunities with very limited resources.
FORGET TRYING TO BE AN EXPERT, A BEGINNER’S MIND IS WHAT ALLOWS US TO CREATIVELY MOVE OURSELVES FORWARD. BY FAISAL HOQUE | January 9, 2015 What kind of mind do you want? What kind of mind do you want your team to have? If you want to be thought an expert—you may favor having a full mind. After all, it’s rather impressive to know many things, to be a fount of knowledge. But expertise implies a sort of rigidity; if your mind is full, it cannot accept more information or possibilities. This is why we need to maintain what Buddhists refer to as beginner’s mind—a certain playful absence of assumptions. WHAT IS BEGINNER’S MIND? Shunyru Suzuki writes in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, “In the
In an age of unanswerable questions, asking the right question might just be the answer.
Each one of us is born to make an authentic contribution. Authenticity does not come from title, social stature, or the size of one’s paycheck but rather from how we live. Truly authentic people lead with their soul. Along with fearless passion and courage, they possess relentless mental discipline.
The key to solving complex problems may be to simplify as much as possible and approach them with a beginner’s mind.
Conquering fear is about self-awareness, wisdom, and understanding your strengths–often in the face of adversity. Luckily these are personality traits that you can practice.
Along with one of the highly acclaimed must read business books “Everything Connects”; in 2014 Shadoka founder Faisal Hoque also published several dozen articles. These are some of his most trended publications on entrepreneurship, creativity, innovation, and leadership of 2014. These publications have been read and shared by thousands of readers globally.
Learn to lead in ways that help rather than tell people to grow and align personal motivations with what your company needs.
The modern economy — local, domestic, and global — operates in a state of accelerating change, driven by increasing and changing competition.
Mindfulness helps us see the ways in which our actions aren’t in correlation with ideals we have about ourselves, and in this way it helps us become more aware of our own interior states, which leads to being more empathetic for others and more authentic.
A boy from Malawi teaches us how to tackle socio-economic issues with innovation.
Learning how and what to manage is something that we need to continually work at on a daily basis, and that eventually develops into the habit of being productive every day.
From the beginning of time, women have always played a critical role in business and commerce. In a male-dominated, global society, those contributions are not always recognized. The story of my grandmother is one such example.
Entrepreneurship will throw challenge after challenge at you, but it’s possible to power through successfully.
Survival in life or in business has always been about the human journey. Find out how Lego and its founder Ole Kirk Christiansen found the strength to rebuild over and over again with persistence, purpose, and reinvention.
This timely wisdom comes from the heart of an unlikely yet self-proclaimed student of life, Faisal Hoque, who is in the business of innovation and new ventures.