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Today is MOTH Monday on Good News Network: In partnership with The Moth, a nonprofit dedicated to the art of storytelling, we bring you the most uplifting speakers from live stages across the world. Kevin McAuliffe was terrified of germs – so imagine how anxious he became when his parents told him they were sending […] The post Listen to How He Overcame His Fear of Germs After His Brother’s Daring Gesture in NYC (MOTH Monday) appeared first on Good News Network .

Eddie struggled with his 5 siblings and single mom in a homeless shelter. Never did he dream of being on stage as the lead cellist in an orchestra. Hear our Good News Guru tell the inspiring story on the radio in Los Angeles—during the May 24, 2019 Ellen K. Morning Show on KOST-103.5. SEE video and the full story on GNN… […] The post When World Hears About Cello Prodigy Living in Poverty, it Sends a Crescendo of Blessings – GNN Podcast appeared first on Good News Network .

One of the common struggles I hear is about feeling stuck in life. There are many reasons a person feels stuck but it all feels the same. They don’t know what to do. They feel like they’re trapped in an invisible prison. They don’t see a future full of hope. They’re lost, confused, and hopeless.  In this episode, I first talk about what it actually means to feel stuck. Where that feeling comes from. Then I share about feeling stuck in May and what I did to overcome it.  I share 3 steps that you can take whenever you’re feeling stuck. It will help you get out of that negative mental cycle you’re in every day and get you moving forward again in life.  Join the free Get Busy Living group Are you on Facebook already? If so, join the Get Busy living community there. Click here to join right now . Subscribe to the Show To make sure you don’t miss a single episode of the podcast, subscribe with your favorite platform. iTunes  – Sticher  – RSS Review the Podca...

To build a winning company, you need a winning team. A-players can skyrocket your success, but nothing will tank momentum faster than adding B or C-level players to the mix. We’ve learned that the hard way!  But there’s a great way to make recruiting easier, and we’ll tell you about it on today’s episode.

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” ― Rumi By Leo Babauta My friends, I’m opening up two spots for my 1-on-1 coaching service, which is aimed for those who would like to start changing their lives, shifting their patterns, and starting true transformation. I’m looking for people who: Are doing meaningful work : You’re creating, you’re starting a non-profit, you’re volunteering, you’re changing lives, you’re serving a team or community, you care about the people you’re serving. Are being held back by their patterns in uncertainty : Your meaningful work is filled with uncertainty, which brings up habitual patterns … maybe you put things off, you try to control everything, you feel overwhelmed, you feel anxiety, you shrink away from public speaking or putting your work in public, you take on too much, you play a smaller game than you should, you feel resentment, you run to comfort and distraction, you don’t delegate. Maybe not all of these, but possib...

Has this ever happened to you? You land what you think will be your dream job. But after a few months, you realize you can’t stand   it.

By Leo Babauta My family & I flew back to California after nine months of being in Guam, and boy are our arms tired! OK, our entire bodies are tired, and our brains — we’re suffering from jet lag and feeling tired during the day. This isn’t necessarily a problem — jet lag is to be expected, after all — but tiredness can affect everything in your life. I find myself less able to do work, more overwhelmed when I’m behind on email and messages, less able to keep up with healthy habits, more likely to eat junk food, and in worse moods. Being tired can have such huge effects on us. And many people are tired much of the time, from being overworked and underslept. So what can we do? Well, there are the usual methods of trying to get better sleep, like better sleep hygiene, setting a consistent bedtime and wake time, and so forth. These are highly recommended. But what do you do today, when you’re still tired? What can you do tomorrow if you’re tired then too? Here’s how I try to pra...

By Leo Babauta We’re in the middle of a big move back to California from Guam, and things are in great flux. Saying goodby to everyone, packing and shipping stuff, not having a home yet, traveling with kids on a couple long flights, moving our old stuff from storage in a U-Haul, finding our way in a new city. Life is turbulent right now — though if we think about it, it almost always is. I’m not a surfer, but I imagine that I can let myself be overwhelmed and crushed by the turbulence … or I can ride it like a surfer might ride a wave. You don’t control the wave or know how it will turn out, you just have to navigate it moment to moment. If we can learn to ride the rolling uncertainty of our lives like a wave, staying open each moment to what unfolds, we can live without as much stress and anxiety, and just be present to what is happening. Maybe even enjoy ourselves in the middle of it. So what would that be like? For me, it seems to be staying present with the feelings of uncert...

Have you ever worked for a bad boss? We mean really bad, the kind that makes you want to tear your hair out, or quit, or both. Nearly everyone has at some point, including us! In fact, we’ll share a few of those experiences in today’s episode—plus some from our listeners. So what should you do when your boss is really insufferable?

Despite being bullied by his teammates, one enthusiastic young athlete became a shining example of why no one should never give up in the face of adversity. The post Waterboy Becomes Unlikely Savior for Basketball Team That Bullied Him (MOTH Monday) appeared first on Good News Network .

“If you are invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.” ~Pema Chodron By Leo Babauta Eva and I and our two younger kids are in the process of moving back to California from Guam, where we’ve been living with family for the last 9 months. As we pack our stuff, get some stuff ready to ship to California, and donate other things to charity … it is a great time to reflect. Why do people have so much stuff? Even though we have relatively little compared to most, we’ve still managed to accumulate too much, from getting gifts from other people to buying necessities (and non-necessities) along the way. Stuff just piles up over time — that’s the nature of stuff. But most of it is not necessary. Most of our stuff, we buy because of one feeling: the feeling of uncertainty . This is the underlying groundlessness, shakiness, insecurity we feel about the future and the present moment. It’s the uncertainty we feel all day long, every day, to varying degrees. It’s what cau...

By Leo Babauta On my 46th birthday recently, my (mostly adult) kids wrote out a list of lessons I’d taught each of them in their lives so far. Each wrote their own list, and my wife Eva sweetly put them together in a notebook. As I read through them, I felt like crying. It’s so incredibly touching that they appreciate what I’ve been trying to pass on to them, things I’ve been learning and want them to understand. As a father, there are few things more meaningful than to see how you’ve helped your kids through your example and talks over the years. We have a mixed family of 6 kids, aging from 13 years old to 26 years, and all of them are wonderful human beings. It turns out, there were some lessons that all or most of the kids put on their list, which I’m going to share with you here. These lessons they had in common made me wonder if these were the more powerful lessons, or if they were simply the ones I talked about the most. :) So here they are, roughly ordered in how frequently...

What’s your biggest roadblock to productivity? Many people would say, “Interruptions! I can’t get anything done because I keep getting interrupted!” If that’s you, we’re going to solve that problem for you right now.  

A couple years ago we began the search for a new home. It turned out to be a long process with a lot of ups and downs. A lot of things happened that we didn’t anticipate at all. In the end, we found the perfect house for us. We’ve been living there for two months now and absolutely love it. Every day we’re thankful for it. Because we faced so many low points in the journey, it was challenging to remain positive throughout. Most of the time it was my wife who was ready to give up and felt that we would never find the right home for us. I had one belief that I told her every single time and it was a belief I felt with every ounce of my body. Looking back now if it weren’t for that belief, I truly believe that we would not have found this perfect home for us. In this episode, I talk about the journey of finding our home, the ups and the many downs, and the belief that I continued to hold and believed was true. Join the free Get Busy Living group Are you on Facebook already? If ...

By Leo Babauta When we set out to work on a meaningful, important task, something interesting happens. We feel quite a bit shaky. It’s the feeling you get when you step into uncertain ground, where you don’t know exactly what you’re doing or whether you can do it, where you feel a bit lost or don’t have solid ground under your feet. This is the shakiness of groundlessness. There’s nothing wrong with feeling shaky and groundless, but our minds don’t really like it. In fact, we’ve trained our minds to run from this uncertainty and shakiness, to go to distraction, procrastination, busywork, trying to get control, or going to a host of other habitual patterns. We feel the shakiness and immediately do whatever we can to avoid feeling it. What if we could just feel the shakiness and not need to run? What if we could practice mindfulness in the middle of it, and stay in the groundlessness? We might even learn to be completely happy in the shakiness, to see it as the place we want to be ...

By Leo Babauta Our society is obsessed with productivity and optimizing our lives — having the perfect routine, perfect diet, perfect productivity system, perfect todo app, and more. It’s an ideal that not only doesn’t exist, it’s harmful to our health and happiness. And what’s more, it’s completely misguided — what many of us really want to do with our work is do meaningful work and have an impact on the world. So how can we let go of the focus on productivity and optimizing, while still doing meaningful work and having an impact? Simplify. Focus on the important, meaningful tasks instead of churning. And actually dive into those meaningful tasks instead of procrastinating because of the uncertainty that comes with them. Look at your task list and email/messages inbox and pick the most meaningful tasks — there’s a good chance you’ve been putting them off. Instead, when you don’t go to your favorite distractions, you are likely to churn through smaller tasks, answering messages,...

Recently I’ve set out to challenge myself in new ways. If I want different results in my life, I need to do different things. One area of my life that needed a serious kick in the butt was with exercise. I focused on exercise because of my belief of the domino effect. I know what it’s like to consistently exercise, have more energy, and feel great about myself. When I feel great, that spreads to other areas of my life. I feel happier, more confident, more focused, and more optimistic. So for me I wanted to first focus on my health through exercising. For too long I haven’t exercised because of the common excuse that we have which is “I don’t have any enough time.” I got tired of using that an excuse and tired of continuously wanting to exercise. I followed the goal created by Runner’s World magazine of running one mile a day for 40 days straight. I’m proud to say that I achieved that goal. In this episode, I talk about the valuable lessons I learned from this experience. Joi...