Attitude

And The Oscar Goes To...You!

Alex Pattakos | Posted 11.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Academy Awards, Oscar, Existential Digging, The Inner Life, Attitude, Meaning, Ricky Gervais, Living With Meaning, Jon Stewart, Alex Pattakos, Viktor Frankl, Living News
Alex Pattakos

Did you know that, like the actors who receive Academy Awards for their outstanding performances, each of us plays the leading role in our own life's movie?

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Living With Meaning: Look At Yourself From A Distance

Alex Pattakos | Posted 11.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Self Detachment, The Inner Life, Attitude, Balanced Life, Meaning, Stress, Living With Meaning, Alex Pattakos, Viktor Frankl, Sense of Humor, Crisis, Rodney Dangerfield, Living News
Alex Pattakos

The ad in a London newspaper read, "Unemployed. Brilliant mind offers its services completely free; the survival of the body must be provided for by ...

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Can You Deal With Life's "Crises"?

Alex Pattakos | Posted 11.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Living News, The Balanced Life, Living With Meaning, Alex Pattakos, Coping Maxim, Viktor Frankl, The Giving Life, Health, The Inner Life, Giving, Attitude, Balanced Life, Meaning, Crisis, Stress, Living News
Alex Pattakos

Faced with an economic crisis, a housing crisis, a healthcare crisis, a global warming crisis, and a "war on terror" that appears to have no end in si...

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Our Cry For Meaning: Aggression, Addiction, Depression

Alex Pattakos | Posted 11.05.2008 | Living

Read More: The Inner Life, Attitude, Balanced Life, Meaning, Stress, Aggression, Living With Meaning, Alex Pattakos, Viktor Frankl, Addiction, Depression, Crisis, Tom Cruise, Living News
Alex Pattakos

Some 50 years ago, the world-renown psychiatrist and Nazi concentration camp survivor, Dr. Viktor Frankl, called attention to three major societal ill...

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Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Meaning

Alex Pattakos | Posted 10.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Statue of Liberty, The Inner Life, Attitude, Meaning, Statue of Responsibility, Declaration of Independence, Nelson Mandela, Living With Meaning, Alex Pattakos, Personal Legacy, Viktor Frankl, Responsibility, Living News
Alex Pattakos

The introduction to the Declaration of Independence contains the following words: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created e...

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The Meaning and Power of Forgiveness

Alex Pattakos | Posted 10.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Living News, The Balanced Life, Forgiveness, Health, The Inner Life, Attitude, Balanced Life, Meaning, Stress, Living With Meaning, Wall Street, Alex Pattakos, Viktor Frankl, The Giving Life, Relationships, Giving, Living News
Alex Pattakos

In light of everything that is going on in our country and the world right now, including the financial crisis and political discord that are now on c...

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Living With Meaning: The Fear Factor

Alex Pattakos | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Happiness, The Inner Life, Attitude, Balanced Life, Meaning, Stress, Rip Torn, Living With Meaning, Albert Brooks, Alex Pattakos, Personal Legacy, Viktor Frankl, Fear, Giving, Living News
Alex Pattakos

The world is full of good deeds and the opportunity to do good deeds. When we don't do them, it's often out of fear. Fear of losing something: our s...

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Living with Meaning: Detect The Meaning Of Life's Moments

Alex Pattakos | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living

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Alex Pattakos

Have you ever wondered if there was more to "life" than what you were experiencing? Have you ever felt like "bad" things just happened to you; that i...

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Living With Meaning At "Midlife"

Alex Pattakos | Posted 09.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Happiness, The Inner Life, Attitude, Meaning, Stress, Living With Meaning, Alex Pattakos, Dealing With Stress, Viktor Frankl, Finding Happiness, Midlife Crisis, Living News
Alex Pattakos

Because I received so many inquiries over the last week from people who described some kind of existential angst or sincere concern about "midlife," I...

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Living With Meaning: Realize Your Will To Meaning

Alex Pattakos | Posted 09.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Living News, Alfred Adler, Sigmund Freud, Pleasure, The Inner Life, Attitude, Power, Meaning, Stress, Living With Meaning, Alex Pattakos, Dealing With Stress, Viktor Frankl, Living News
Alex Pattakos

Welcome back to the Living with Meaning conversation! And if this is your first time with us, I want to welcome you to a place where we can have an o...

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Living With Meaning: Exercise The Freedom To Choose Your Attitude

Alex Pattakos | Posted 08.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Dealing With Stress, Stress, Stephen Covey, Attitude, Living With Meaning, Viktor Frankl, Happiness, Health, Balanced Life, The Balanced Life, The Giving Life, The Inner Life, Living News
Alex Pattakos

Welcome to the Living with Meaning conversation, a place where we can have an open and focused dialogue on what has become a "megatrend" of the 21st c...

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