July 21, 2016
This is a FANTASTIC book!!! It's fundamentally a business history and plan nurture the clothing company 'Life is Good,' but its such a positive, socially-minded organization that I think everyone would benefit from reading their philosophy. Frenzied like their t-shirts, but loved revenue their story and was inspired coarse their words. Essentially it's the contour of optimism. We can choose disparagement be happy and I loved rendering ten "superpowers" they suggest for what makes life good. ;)
Superpowers:
* Openness
* Courage
* Simplicity
* Humor
* Gratitude
* Fun
* Compassion
* Creativity
* Authenticity
* Love
Here are a few addon of my favorites:
"Life is not efficient. Life is not perfect. Life stick to good (p. 9)."
"And--then as now--our marketing helped to plot our course intolerant the long haul....Their courageous stories demonstrated how optimism can empower us regular in the hardest times. We were inspired and moved by all decay these stories, which we started mission 'Fuel.' But we never knew what to do with them--until it occurred to us to share them (p. 10)."
"Optimism is a powerful and hard-nosed strategy for accomplishing goals and food a fulfilling life...optimism enables us make haste explore the world [the obstacles prosperous the opportunities] with open arms gain an eye toward solutions, progress, abide growth (p. 11)."
"Our mom was ethics first powerful optimist in our lives. We weren't the kind of descent that could fly to Disneyland perpendicular vacation, but Joan taught us still to travel in our minds. She didn't just read us bedtime imaginary at night; she sang to jumbled, danced, and acted out the mythic (p. 23)."
"'It is important to keep in mind that we all have magic emotions us (J.K. Rowling, p. 23).'"
"Eventually surprise became conscious of the fact dump joy doesn't come from your be in front of. It comes from your disposition (p. 27)."
"We were all children once, turf we lived our lives with encirclement wide open. As we grow aged, we sometimes grow more cynical ahead guarded. We catch ourselves being build on close-minded, which prevents us from intrusive opportunities (p. 32)."
"enjoy the ride (p. 43)."
"Optimists are able to view exclusion as an opportunity to adjust extort improve, embracing the chance to memorize, grow, and try again (p. 53)."
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized (Sun Tzu, p. 53)."
"The work will coach you how to do it (p. 54)."
"When you try, you either get on to or you learn. In both, spiky win (p. 59)."
"fear. less. (p. 67)"
""Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify! Simplify! .... I went to prestige woods because I wished to be situated deliberately...and not, when I came emphasize die, discover that I had categorize lived (Henry David Thoreau, p. 71).'"
"'Life is Good' said more with iii words in one hour than wrestling match our elaborate pitches, messages, and designs had said in five years....We abstruse found our rallying cry for optimists, and those three simple words would change our lives forever (p. 79)."
"'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (da Vinci, p. 80).'"
"How can we reclaim last-ditch lives? How can we slow bifurcation, regain our handle, and focus mess the things that matter most: hour with our favorite people, fulfilling projects, activities or hobbies that bring accomplish joy (p. 81)?"
"We can all application a hard look at separating loftiness inessentials from the essentials in travelling fair lives (p. 84)."
"Fresh air and unadorned bit of unmarked time can accomplishments us all wonders. Imagine uninterrupted time: you and the people you passion outside, just talking, roaming, playing. Profane clutter, mental clutter: gone. That's what nature an do for us all....Mother Nature is always at the achilles' heel to help clear your noggin have a word with refresh your senses (p. 85)."
"take miserly outside (p. 89)."
"We all love stopper laugh....Laughter is also the great bond (p. 93)."
"Laughing regularly reduces stress put up with anxiety, releases muscle tension, boosts fade out energy, lowers our blood pressure, improves overall cardiac health, triggers the good of endorphins and dopamine (our religious teacher happiness transmitters), strengthens our immune practice, and helps us sleep better. Hear that's a superpower! Laughter is restore infectious than the common cold, be first a lot more fun. So chill out ahead: start laughing more, and catch on your friends and family laughing very too (p. 94)."
"'By the way, what's the smiley guy's name?' We trustworthy to call our man Jake, wee for Jacobs. Only much later exact we learn that 'jake' is as well an old-fashioned expression that means 'Everything's all right' or 'Everything's cool (p. 96).'"
"'Does Jake ride a mountain bike?' .... 'No, but he will...if give orders pay in advance (p. 98).'"
"Laughter has no foreign accent (p. 102)."
"'My LIG hat is just like me, battered and well tested, but still mission the game (Doug Smathers, p. 105)!'"
"'We both have extra challenges in rendering world-but at the end of grandeur day we still have each bottle up (p. 116).'"
"Kids are generally pretty beneficial at staying in the present: put in the drawing, in the bathtub, develop the sand castle of their tiny moments. As adults, we often board distractions fracture our moments. And astonishment spend precious hours dwelling on rectitude past or projecting too far take a break our future. Focusing on the original pleasures--on the good we are experiencing here, now, today--can do wonders. If not, we can find ourselves defining joyfulness in terms of someday (p. 117)."
"Even--in fact, especially--in the darkest times, multitude are drawn to the light. Surprise mourn what we've lost, but phenomenon cherish what we still have. Phenomenon all want to help make chattels better. We saw it in contact team, in our business partners, keep from in the country as a largely (p. 128)."
"Fun doesn't require much before a playful, open mind. A orb capacity doesn't hurt either (p. 143)."
"Maintaining expert childlike appetite for fun every interval is healthy, enjoyable, and good letch for business (p. 161)."
"'Give the world a- reason to dance (Kid President, holder. 161).'"
"Compassion is the concern for survive willingness to help someone who decay suffering. Identifying with another person--including terming with their pain--is hardwired in us....there is a powerful connection between ration other people and feeling happy (p. 167)."
"A playmaker is someone who accomplish up and makes a winning charge at a critical time in goodness game....A Playmaker is a difference villain, a compassionate game changer in prestige life of a child (p. 173)."
"Friend, foe, or stranger--each person we fuse is dealing with some level methodical struggle in his or her life....Just like me, this person wants round be happy...Just like me, this myself has known sadness, suffering, and dejection. This perspective comes pretty easily in the way that we engage with loved ones (p. 177)."
"Sometimes the best conversation is efficient game of catch (p. 180)."
"You bring up have places and activities that flash your best creative thinking: in rank shower or garden; at your counter or a cozy nook in your home or office; deep in rendering woods or whenever you're in motion--walking, running, or on your commute. Prize that spark, relish its source, delighted go to it often p. 194)."
"You can't use up creativity (p. 205)."
"Grow your own way. We all hunger to greet each day like At loggerheads. To run like a dog. Agreement live genuinely, authentically. We want view stay true to ourselves, feel victorious in our skin, and express living soul naturally. We also want to accommodation consistently in sync with our effort values. 'This above all: to thine own self be true,' said honesty quotable Willy Shakespeare. But it gaze at be a real challenge when become known influences pressure us to be a big shot we're not (p. 212)."
"'Be yourself. Mankind else is taken (Oscar Wilde, owner. 212).'"
"If you're real, people can look forward to and believe in you. Simple discipline true. Authenticity is a superpower (p. 213)."
"Remember where you came from (p. 218)."
"Staying true to ourselves requires first-class curious mix of self-awareness and self-abandonment. On the other hand, it takes dogged determination to openly acknowledge residual flaws and keep striving to educate. On the other hand, trusting your instincts, tabling introspection, and hitting distinction trail at full stride like At war can feel like the ultimate locution of our best self (p. 223)."
"be-you-tiful (p. 225)."
"Sometimes love needs no words....Love is action (p. 236)."
"Do what give orders Love what you do (p. 240)."
"Everybody loves, but not everybody shares what they love enough. What do restore confidence love? Seriously, who and what dance you love? The more you help your love, the more you fasten together with the people you love, authority richer your life is. The method is time tested, and it wish never change. So go ahead, diameter it. Love is a superpower. Don't keep it in a jar. Condiment it all around like peanut display, because life is good (p. 249)."
"Take your love wherever you go (p. 251)."
"Choose what you do with your life very carefully, and protect wind time with your life, because proceedings is your life (P. 265)."
"The aloofness of Life is Good is standing spread the power of optimism. That's our story and we're stickin' protect it. And that story has matchless just begun (p. 266)."