Living Your Life in Full: Means & Methods Notes, References, Bibliography and Further Readings If you'd like to learn more or connect, please do, just click here. You can join my email list to keep in touch. Tools and my podcast are available via http://ALifeInFull.org. And be sure to click here for a free subscription to our monthly LinkedIn Newsletter, Tools for Change. Door County - It’s a rare gift to be able to live where you choose, if you’re not there yet, consider what’s important, and add as best you can. Once we were able to, here’s where we chose and why: • Art and Nature • The Niagara Escarpment is an environment all its own. It’s a world-inside-a-world, a natural playground, an outdoor laboratory, and an expansive, multi-state biosystem complete with its own forests, plant life, wildlife, and weather patterns. But more than anything, it’s a stunningly beautiful rock formation that offers endless possibilities for education, exploration, and adventure. • The Door County community is on a mission to protect, preserve, and care for the local environment and culture. • Door County created the Door County Leave No Trace 7 Principles and a companion the video collection and of course a Family-Time Sustainability Bucket List • Sustainable Food and Dining - orchard-to-table and field-to-table styles of eating have long been ways of life here. Buying tonight’s salad vegetables or tomorrow’s pie filling from a neighbor is nothing new, and, until recently, wasn’t something local chefs and restaurateurs necessarily thought of as remarkable or worth announcing to visitors. Community Sustainability Efforts Here is a sampler of how these local communities are leading the charge toward a greener and more sustainable Door County. • Baileys Harbor Sustainability Initiatives • Egg Harbor Sustainability Initiatives (our “new” home town) • Liberty Grove Sustainability Initiatives • Sturgeon Bay Sustainability Initiatives • Jacksonport Sustainability Initiatives Chris’ Articles The Sting of Moral Clarity Effective Altruism: Charlie Bresler on How to Amplify Your Impact 52 Ways to Change the World A Career (and Life) in a Box Building a “Portfolio Career” Special Edition: Open-Sourcing Humanitarian Intervention The Be a Verb Manifesto It’s like a TED talk for Mentoring Epic Ideas for 2020: Revolution over Resolutions What You Need to Know to have an Optimized Healthspan: Bio-hacking for Beginners If I Were 22: To the Class of 2016 (and '17 and my daughter)
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What Inspires Me: Blueprinting A Life in Full What Happens When Pursuing Your Goals Goes Wrong (And What To Do About It) Dear Graduates, Now Is the Time to Mess Up Why I'd Rather Lose My Phone Than My To-Do List Productivity Hacks: Have Impossible To-Do Lists Ask Yourself: 'How Long Have I Got?' My Best Mistake: Becoming an Accidental Humanitarian When It Only Takes a Few Pennies to Save a Life, Here's What I Start Asking Myself State of Philanthropy: Finding Hope Among the 'Disaster' of Humanitarian Aid Opportunities to Create Change like Never Before Cool Tools for Humanitarians Why Global Health Needs its Own "Huff Post" DIY Humanitarianism Philanthropy for the Rest of Us: Changing the World for 73-Cents a Life Creative Destruction in Philanthropy? A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, but a Naming Opportunity.... Epic 60s/Epic Living 275 X 60 Chris’ Contacts https://linktr.ee/drchrisstout Living a Life in Full Podcast Chris’ Life List YouTube Channel Living a Life in Full Facebook Group Center for Global Initiatives Facebook Group Related Books Free download The Life You Can Save book Why Global Health Matters The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts The New Humanitarians Related Tools https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/about/our-team/ https://soundcloud.com/caroljoywilliams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnXu9y0YxAQ https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/ Recommended charities Innovations for Poverty Action https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/take-the-pledge/ https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/impact-calculator/ LinkedIn Newsletter, Tools for Change 52 Ways to Change the World Scholarship
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Summits For Others Consortium for Humanitarian Intervention Special Edition: Open-Sourcing Humanitarian Intervention Fellowship and certificate programs Epic 60s/Epic Living https://www.wegive.com/ https://greatnonprofits.org/awards/browse/Campaign:Year2022/Issue:All/Page:1 https://www.charitynavigator.org/ https://candid.org/ Related Podcast Episodes Effective Altruism: Charlie Bresler, PhD, on How to Amplify Your Impact Inside the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative with Dr. Tim Erickson Putting the Humanity (and Humility) in Humanitarian Work with Dr. Glenn Geelhoed Emergency Medicine and Global Health Perspectives from Academic Rockstar, Janet Lin, MD, MPH Building Peace from Chaos—Around the World with Dr. Mari Fitzduff Alonzo’s World of Risks and Rewards in Diplomatic and Humanitarian Work Global Innovators Series - Dr. Tiffany Masson and Global HOPE Chris’ Nonprofit Center for Global Initiatives Top ranked healthcare nonprofit Platinum Ranked by GuideStar Related John Goddard’s Life List Here are Six Important Reasons Not to Retire Early Chip Conley on Mastering Professional Transitions • Part 1: Maximize Your Professional Transition • Part 2: The Difference Between Wisdom and Knowledge • Part 3: Optimizing Your Career Path • Part 4: Curiosity vs Judgment • Part 5: Repotting Yourself and Offering the World Your Mastery William Green and I talked about the “freedom to work until you are 106” from his book, Richer, Wiser, Happier. I Just Retired. Why Am I Unhappy? To maintain your well-being after retirement, it helps to develop a plan. Self-development takes a lifetime—and that’s okay Life Audit - Alicia Adamczyk wrote about the concept of a life audit from it originator, Ximena Vengoechea, in a 2014 Medium post. Vengoechea was said to have created the process in order to tune out the mundane distractions of everyday life and remind herself of the bigger picture. Alicia notes that doing so can at least offer you some clarity and control of your life.
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So consider giving it a go as a revolution over resolutions as I used to say. Here is Vengoechea’s approach along with Alicia’s. And to close with a tip-of-the-hat to our Stoic pal, Ryan Holiday and his points as to the what habits the Stoics say we ought to cease and what vices should we avoid? here are a few to consider: • Don’t be overheard complaining…even to yourself (Marcus) • Don’t put on airs about your self-improvement (Epictetus) • Don’t overindulge in eating or drinking (Musonius) • Don’t speak more than you listen (Zeno) • Don’t avoid difficulty (Seneca) • Don’t tie your identity to the clothes you wear, things you own (Cato) • Don’t conceal what you truly believe (Arius Didymus) • Don’t go along just to get along (Agrippinus) • Don’t be all about business (Marcus) • Don’t put off to tomorrow what can be finished today (Seneca) • Don’t shun people you disagree with (Seneca) • Don’t sleep the day away (Marcus) • Don’t neglect your friendships (Seneca) • Don’t waste time thinking you are going to live forever (all) We've reached peak wellness, and most of it is nonsense: here's what actually works instead. The keys to developing a physical practice. Two simple rules for anything, especially focusing on sleep. Walking may be the best exercise there is. Own your distractions so they don't own you. The School of Life Films dedicated to exploring the great questions of emotional and psychological life. Read hundreds of sensitive, consoling articles for free on topics ranging from sex and relationships to self-knowledge and culture. Jerry Saltz - How to be an Artist - “One way to think about art is that it’s a visual language--usually nonverbal arguably, pre-verbal--with the power to tell us more in the blink of an eye then we might learn an hours of listening or reading. It is a means of expression that conveys the most primal emotions: lonesomeness, silence, pain, the whole vast array of human sensation. As any writer ever found the words to capture the internal suffering and external lamentation of Rogier van der Weydan’s Descent from the Cross, 1435? “Art is also a survival strategy. For many artists, making their work is as important, spiritually, as breathing or eating. Each day presents artists with new ideas and old beliefs, continuances and brutal breaks. Enduring beauty and decay. Revelations present themselves, then slip away. At least once in a while, all artists must feel like Penelope from Homers Odyssey--spending each day weaving tapestries from their own bank of stories, myths, fears, suppositions, dread, and personal truths, only to awaken the next morning and unweave them all, changing, mixing, improving,
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purposefully dismantling. The artist is on a continually evolving path, accumulating experience but always starting over. “I have my own sort of School of Athens in my head. A team of rivals, friends, famous people, influencers, dead and alive. They’re all looking over my shoulder as I work. They all make Page | 5 observations, recommendations, suggestions. None of them are mean. I use music a lot. I think, OK, let’s begin this piece with a real pow! Like Beethoven. Or I listen to the Barbara Krueger in my head, who says Make this in short, punchy, declarative, aggressive. Once in a while, Led Zeppelin chimes in: Try a hairy experiment here. Let it all show, let it be weird, messy, overblown, absurd. All the Sienese paintings I’ve ever seen beg me, Make it beautiful, indulge the products of looking. D. H. Lawrence pounds on the table, demanding voice; Alexander Pope tells me to get a grip; Whitman pushes me on to merge my work with anything; Melville gets grandiose; Proust drives me to extend my sentences till they almost break and my editor step in to cut them down. “Think about the voices in your private psychic pantheon. Get to know them they’ll always be there when things get tough.” Page 47 Annual Review 2021: Forward Motion Once More How to Make a Personal Roadmap Living a Life in Full: Revolution over Resolutions 2.0 How to Conduct Your Own Annual Review #
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