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10 Phrases to Inspire a Change in Your Attitude

Sometimes, we don’t need big speeches or entire books to make us open our eyes and to inspire us to make changes in our attitude, way of thinking and behaviour. A few simple but powerful words said at the right moment can have much more weight. These are 10 of our most liked motivational phrases […]

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Embracing Hygge, The Danish Approach to Happiness

If you take a moment to reflect on our lifestyle, you’ll notice that we live in a period which only a few years ago (not to mention decades or centuries) would have been perceived as total science fiction. Think about the internet, smartphones, transportation, augmented reality, the growth of the digital world and the big […]

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Ubuntu: “I am because we are”

A few days ago, someone told me that there was a documentary on Netflix about a tribe or a community in Africa that is ranked as the happiest in the world. Apparently, the reason for their happiness was the simple fact that when lunch time arrives, the whole community gathers around a big table and […]

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Where have we left our curiosity and appreciation? 5 daily situations to bring them back

Inertia seems to be the force that many times rules our lives: we do things repeatedly without much awareness or will to change them, missing on the way a few key ingredients for a rich life: curiosity and appreciation. Jim Taylor defines life inertia as “the tendency of people, having once established a life trajectory, […]

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A 21-day challenge to change your mental attitude (worth doing)

It all starts with becoming aware. In the rush of our everyday responsibilities, is not unusual that we start taking for granted many of the amazing things that surround us. There is much scientific research on the connection between gratitude and happiness, and how appreciating what we have instead of focusing on what we lack […]

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A Father and His Autistic Son Bring the Power of Music to the Homeless

As part of our mission to spread stories of random acts of kindness, we want to share Pauly’s Project. Paul Avila tells that when he was young he would go with his mother to Los Angeles’ skid row to bring food and clothes for his uncle, and that during his life, he never forgot how […]

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Announcing analyze.life’s most important update

Hi everyone,   We are absolutely excited to announce a great update on analyze.life, which is exclusively in the AppStore! We’ve been working on it for months now, trying to add value, make it fun and easy to use, and we can’t wait to show it to you! Our main focus was to help you […]

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Alan Watts on Life and Success [Video]

Alan Watts was a fascinating 20th Century philosopher who brought Eastern philosophy to the West and put under judgement our society’s idea of success. In his speech about Life and Music, he talks about the Western idea of happiness and success, and shows how our society encourages us to pursue professional success rather than personal […]

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First things First: A Metaphor for Life

A professor stood before a philosophy class holding an empty jar. As the students took their seats, he started to fill the jar with golf balls. He showed it to them and asked if it was full. All the students agreed that it was. Then he grabbed a bag of pebbles and poured them in […]

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