Melissa Walker of Heyday Coaching pens a monthly blog with tips for helping you achieve your own peak success, happiness, and vigor.
What do you live for?
That’s a question posed by Dr. Gladys McGarey in her book The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor’s Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age. Now 103, Dr. McGarey, a board-certified physician of holistic and integrated medicine, is still seeing patients.
Operating systems aren’t confined to computers. We have them in lots of realms in our lives even if we don’t call them that. Laws. Traffic systems. Financial systems. It’s the underlying set of assumptions, routines, and processes that keep things working smoothly.
You and I also have our personal operating systems. These are the routines and mindsets that we use to organize our lives and keep things running smoothly.
A few months ago, I listened to one of my favorite podcasts, “Women at Work” which is produced by the Harvard Business Review. In this particular episode, the hosts were interviewing Therese Huston, the author of How Women Decide, a book I reviewed on my blog a couple of years back.
Huston discussed the challenges women face in making decisions—particularly the various double binds we face--and she offered some strategies to help women make challenging decisions. One of those strategies was the 10-10-10 method.
Happiness books and books on de-cluttering are all the rage right now. The latest book from Gretchen Rubin (The Happiness Project) combines the two. In spite of the trendiness of her topics, there are some useful bits of advice in Outer Order, Inner Calm: Declutter and Organize to Make More Room for Happiness. Rubin offers a lot of suggestions for little actions that can make a big difference in our daily lives. The book offers the added bonus of being a quick read.
