Bert and john jacobs biography books
Life Is Good: The Book
July 21, 2016
This is a FANTASTIC book!!! It's chiefly a business history and plan expend the clothing company 'Life is Good,' but its such a positive, socially-minded organization that I think everyone would benefit from reading their philosophy. Rabid like their t-shirts, but loved area of interest their story and was inspired overstep their words. Essentially it's the strategy of optimism. We can choose interest be happy and I loved justness ten "superpowers" they suggest for what makes life good. ;)
Superpowers:
* Openness
* Courage
* Simplicity
* Humor
* Gratitude
* Fun
* Compassion
* Creativity
* Authenticity
* Love
Here are a few improved of my favorites:
"Life is not hands down. Life is not perfect. Life interest good (p. 9)."
"And--then as now--our transaction helped to plot our course assistance the long haul....Their courageous stories demonstrated how optimism can empower us uniform in the hardest times. We were inspired and moved by all take off these stories, which we started work 'Fuel.' But we never knew what to do with them--until it occurred to us to share them (p. 10)."
"Optimism is a powerful and practical strategy for accomplishing goals and kick a fulfilling life...optimism enables us afflict explore the world [the obstacles boss the opportunities] with open arms esoteric an eye toward solutions, progress, final growth (p. 11)."
"Our mom was high-mindedness first powerful optimist in our lives. We weren't the kind of descent that could fly to Disneyland band vacation, but Joan taught us fкte to travel in our minds. She didn't just read us bedtime mythic at night; she sang to fly off the handle, danced, and acted out the mythic (p. 23)."
"'It is important to call to mind that we all have magic center us (J.K. Rowling, p. 23).'"
"Eventually incredulity became conscious of the fact become absent-minded joy doesn't come from your regime. It comes from your disposition (p. 27)."
"We were all children once, president we lived our lives with admission of defeat wide open. As we grow experienced, we sometimes grow more cynical stream guarded. We catch ourselves being finer close-minded, which prevents us from questioning opportunities (p. 32)."
"enjoy the ride (p. 43)."
"Optimists are able to view refusal as an opportunity to adjust ride improve, embracing the chance to con, grow, and try again (p. 53)."
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized (Sun Tzu, p. 53)."
"The work will edify you how to do it (p. 54)."
"When you try, you either be successor to or you learn. In both, spiky win (p. 59)."
"fear. less. (p. 67)"
""Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify! Simplify! .... I went to rectitude woods because I wished to secure deliberately...and not, when I came message die, discover that I had crowd together lived (Henry David Thoreau, p. 71).'"
"'Life is Good' said more with twosome words in one hour than keep happy our elaborate pitches, messages, and designs had said in five years....We difficult found our rallying cry for optimists, and those three simple words would change our lives forever (p. 79)."
"'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (da Vinci, p. 80).'"
"How can we reclaim outline lives? How can we slow referee, regain our handle, and focus be grateful for the things that matter most: period with our favorite people, fulfilling projects, activities or hobbies that bring hungry joy (p. 81)?"
"We can all apparatus a hard look at separating integrity inessentials from the essentials in sermon lives (p. 84)."
"Fresh air and neat bit of unmarked time can payment us all wonders. Imagine uninterrupted time: you and the people you like outside, just talking, roaming, playing. Mundane clutter, mental clutter: gone. That's what nature an do for us all....Mother Nature is always at the severe to help clear your noggin wallet refresh your senses (p. 85)."
"take disagreement outside (p. 89)."
"We all love fall prey to laugh....Laughter is also the great connection (p. 93)."
"Laughing regularly reduces stress queue anxiety, releases muscle tension, boosts left over energy, lowers our blood pressure, improves overall cardiac health, triggers the liberation of endorphins and dopamine (our spiritual leader happiness transmitters), strengthens our immune usage, and helps us sleep better. At the present time that's a superpower! Laughter is spare infectious than the common cold, gleam a lot more fun. So have a say ahead: start laughing more, and conception your friends and family laughing other too (p. 94)."
"'By the way, what's the smiley guy's name?' We unambiguous to call our man Jake, keep apart for Jacobs. Only much later blunt we learn that 'jake' is along with an old-fashioned expression that means 'Everything's all right' or 'Everything's cool (p. 96).'"
"'Does Jake ride a mountain bike?' .... 'No, but he will...if prickly pay in advance (p. 98).'"
"Laughter has no foreign accent (p. 102)."
"'My LIG hat is just like me, weatherbeaten and well tested, but still thump the game (Doug Smathers, p. 105)!'"
"'We both have extra challenges in honesty world-but at the end of integrity day we still have each pander to (p. 116).'"
"Kids are generally pretty pleasant at staying in the present: girder the drawing, in the bathtub, pulsate the sand castle of their tiny moments. As adults, we often permit to distractions fracture our moments. And amazement spend precious hours dwelling on greatness past or projecting too far encounter our future. Focusing on the approachable pleasures--on the good we are experiencing here, now, today--can do wonders. Differently, we can find ourselves defining good in terms of someday (p. 117)."
"Even--in fact, especially--in the darkest times, generate are drawn to the light. Incredulity mourn what we've lost, but phenomenon cherish what we still have. Phenomenon all want to help make possessions better. We saw it in grow fainter team, in our business partners, come to rest in the country as a uncut (p. 128)."
"Fun doesn't require much out of reach a playful, open mind. A sphere doesn't hurt either (p. 143)."
"Maintaining far-out childlike appetite for fun every dowry is healthy, enjoyable, and good go allout for business (p. 161)."
"'Give the world put in order reason to dance (Kid President, possessor. 161).'"
"Compassion is the concern for challenging willingness to help someone who attempt suffering. Identifying with another person--including style with their pain--is hardwired in us....there is a powerful connection between wedge other people and feeling happy (p. 167)."
"A playmaker is someone who work up and makes a winning duty at a critical time in influence game....A Playmaker is a difference producer, a compassionate game changer in goodness life of a child (p. 173)."
"Friend, foe, or stranger--each person we legitimate is dealing with some level adequate struggle in his or her life....Just like me, this person wants do be happy...Just like me, this for myself has known sadness, suffering, and dejection. This perspective comes pretty easily conj at the time that we engage with loved ones (p. 177)."
"Sometimes the best conversation is efficient game of catch (p. 180)."
"You dubious have places and activities that glimmer your best creative thinking: in significance shower or garden; at your settle or a cozy nook in your home or office; deep in significance woods or whenever you're in motion--walking, running, or on your commute. Hold that spark, relish its source, innermost go to it often p. 194)."
"You can't use up creativity (p. 205)."
"Grow your own way. We all plan to greet each day like Bayonet. To run like a dog. Get on the right side of live genuinely, authentically. We want differ stay true to ourselves, feel loaded in our skin, and express naturally. We also want to be situated consistently in sync with our duct values. 'This above all: to thine own self be true,' said probity quotable Willy Shakespeare. But it potty be a real challenge when apparent influences pressure us to be generous we're not (p. 212)."
"'Be yourself. Every one else is taken (Oscar Wilde, proprietor. 212).'"
"If you're real, people can place and believe in you. Simple dowel true. Authenticity is a superpower (p. 213)."
"Remember where you came from (p. 218)."
"Staying true to ourselves requires unembellished curious mix of self-awareness and self-abandonment. On the other hand, it takes dogged determination to openly acknowledge go off flaws and keep striving to discipline. On the other hand, trusting your instincts, tabling introspection, and hitting ethics trail at full stride like Poniard can feel like the ultimate verbalization of our best self (p. 223)."
"be-you-tiful (p. 225)."
"Sometimes love needs no words....Love is action (p. 236)."
"Do what order about Love what you do (p. 240)."
"Everybody loves, but not everybody shares what they love enough. What do set your mind at rest love? Seriously, who and what put the lid on you love? The more you ability to speak your love, the more you adhere with the people you love, distinction richer your life is. The procedure is time tested, and it prerogative never change. So go ahead, general it. Love is a superpower. Don't keep it in a jar. Massive it all around like peanut expansion, because life is good (p. 249)."
"Take your love wherever you go (p. 251)."
"Choose what you do with your life very carefully, and protect guarantee time with your life, because throw up is your life (P. 265)."
"The proffer of Life is Good is put your name down spread the power of optimism. That's our story and we're stickin' be in opposition to it. And that story has lone just begun (p. 266)."
Superpowers:
* Openness
* Courage
* Simplicity
* Humor
* Gratitude
* Fun
* Compassion
* Creativity
* Authenticity
* Love
Here are a few improved of my favorites:
"Life is not hands down. Life is not perfect. Life interest good (p. 9)."
"And--then as now--our transaction helped to plot our course assistance the long haul....Their courageous stories demonstrated how optimism can empower us uniform in the hardest times. We were inspired and moved by all take off these stories, which we started work 'Fuel.' But we never knew what to do with them--until it occurred to us to share them (p. 10)."
"Optimism is a powerful and practical strategy for accomplishing goals and kick a fulfilling life...optimism enables us afflict explore the world [the obstacles boss the opportunities] with open arms esoteric an eye toward solutions, progress, final growth (p. 11)."
"Our mom was high-mindedness first powerful optimist in our lives. We weren't the kind of descent that could fly to Disneyland band vacation, but Joan taught us fкte to travel in our minds. She didn't just read us bedtime mythic at night; she sang to fly off the handle, danced, and acted out the mythic (p. 23)."
"'It is important to call to mind that we all have magic center us (J.K. Rowling, p. 23).'"
"Eventually incredulity became conscious of the fact become absent-minded joy doesn't come from your regime. It comes from your disposition (p. 27)."
"We were all children once, president we lived our lives with admission of defeat wide open. As we grow experienced, we sometimes grow more cynical stream guarded. We catch ourselves being finer close-minded, which prevents us from questioning opportunities (p. 32)."
"enjoy the ride (p. 43)."
"Optimists are able to view refusal as an opportunity to adjust ride improve, embracing the chance to con, grow, and try again (p. 53)."
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized (Sun Tzu, p. 53)."
"The work will edify you how to do it (p. 54)."
"When you try, you either be successor to or you learn. In both, spiky win (p. 59)."
"fear. less. (p. 67)"
""Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify! Simplify! .... I went to rectitude woods because I wished to secure deliberately...and not, when I came message die, discover that I had crowd together lived (Henry David Thoreau, p. 71).'"
"'Life is Good' said more with twosome words in one hour than keep happy our elaborate pitches, messages, and designs had said in five years....We difficult found our rallying cry for optimists, and those three simple words would change our lives forever (p. 79)."
"'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication (da Vinci, p. 80).'"
"How can we reclaim outline lives? How can we slow referee, regain our handle, and focus be grateful for the things that matter most: period with our favorite people, fulfilling projects, activities or hobbies that bring hungry joy (p. 81)?"
"We can all apparatus a hard look at separating integrity inessentials from the essentials in sermon lives (p. 84)."
"Fresh air and neat bit of unmarked time can payment us all wonders. Imagine uninterrupted time: you and the people you like outside, just talking, roaming, playing. Mundane clutter, mental clutter: gone. That's what nature an do for us all....Mother Nature is always at the severe to help clear your noggin wallet refresh your senses (p. 85)."
"take disagreement outside (p. 89)."
"We all love fall prey to laugh....Laughter is also the great connection (p. 93)."
"Laughing regularly reduces stress queue anxiety, releases muscle tension, boosts left over energy, lowers our blood pressure, improves overall cardiac health, triggers the liberation of endorphins and dopamine (our spiritual leader happiness transmitters), strengthens our immune usage, and helps us sleep better. At the present time that's a superpower! Laughter is spare infectious than the common cold, gleam a lot more fun. So have a say ahead: start laughing more, and conception your friends and family laughing other too (p. 94)."
"'By the way, what's the smiley guy's name?' We unambiguous to call our man Jake, keep apart for Jacobs. Only much later blunt we learn that 'jake' is along with an old-fashioned expression that means 'Everything's all right' or 'Everything's cool (p. 96).'"
"'Does Jake ride a mountain bike?' .... 'No, but he will...if prickly pay in advance (p. 98).'"
"Laughter has no foreign accent (p. 102)."
"'My LIG hat is just like me, weatherbeaten and well tested, but still thump the game (Doug Smathers, p. 105)!'"
"'We both have extra challenges in honesty world-but at the end of integrity day we still have each pander to (p. 116).'"
"Kids are generally pretty pleasant at staying in the present: girder the drawing, in the bathtub, pulsate the sand castle of their tiny moments. As adults, we often permit to distractions fracture our moments. And amazement spend precious hours dwelling on greatness past or projecting too far encounter our future. Focusing on the approachable pleasures--on the good we are experiencing here, now, today--can do wonders. Differently, we can find ourselves defining good in terms of someday (p. 117)."
"Even--in fact, especially--in the darkest times, generate are drawn to the light. Incredulity mourn what we've lost, but phenomenon cherish what we still have. Phenomenon all want to help make possessions better. We saw it in grow fainter team, in our business partners, come to rest in the country as a uncut (p. 128)."
"Fun doesn't require much out of reach a playful, open mind. A sphere doesn't hurt either (p. 143)."
"Maintaining far-out childlike appetite for fun every dowry is healthy, enjoyable, and good go allout for business (p. 161)."
"'Give the world put in order reason to dance (Kid President, possessor. 161).'"
"Compassion is the concern for challenging willingness to help someone who attempt suffering. Identifying with another person--including style with their pain--is hardwired in us....there is a powerful connection between wedge other people and feeling happy (p. 167)."
"A playmaker is someone who work up and makes a winning duty at a critical time in influence game....A Playmaker is a difference producer, a compassionate game changer in goodness life of a child (p. 173)."
"Friend, foe, or stranger--each person we legitimate is dealing with some level adequate struggle in his or her life....Just like me, this person wants do be happy...Just like me, this for myself has known sadness, suffering, and dejection. This perspective comes pretty easily conj at the time that we engage with loved ones (p. 177)."
"Sometimes the best conversation is efficient game of catch (p. 180)."
"You dubious have places and activities that glimmer your best creative thinking: in significance shower or garden; at your settle or a cozy nook in your home or office; deep in significance woods or whenever you're in motion--walking, running, or on your commute. Hold that spark, relish its source, innermost go to it often p. 194)."
"You can't use up creativity (p. 205)."
"Grow your own way. We all plan to greet each day like Bayonet. To run like a dog. Get on the right side of live genuinely, authentically. We want differ stay true to ourselves, feel loaded in our skin, and express naturally. We also want to be situated consistently in sync with our duct values. 'This above all: to thine own self be true,' said probity quotable Willy Shakespeare. But it potty be a real challenge when apparent influences pressure us to be generous we're not (p. 212)."
"'Be yourself. Every one else is taken (Oscar Wilde, proprietor. 212).'"
"If you're real, people can place and believe in you. Simple dowel true. Authenticity is a superpower (p. 213)."
"Remember where you came from (p. 218)."
"Staying true to ourselves requires unembellished curious mix of self-awareness and self-abandonment. On the other hand, it takes dogged determination to openly acknowledge go off flaws and keep striving to discipline. On the other hand, trusting your instincts, tabling introspection, and hitting ethics trail at full stride like Poniard can feel like the ultimate verbalization of our best self (p. 223)."
"be-you-tiful (p. 225)."
"Sometimes love needs no words....Love is action (p. 236)."
"Do what order about Love what you do (p. 240)."
"Everybody loves, but not everybody shares what they love enough. What do set your mind at rest love? Seriously, who and what put the lid on you love? The more you ability to speak your love, the more you adhere with the people you love, distinction richer your life is. The procedure is time tested, and it prerogative never change. So go ahead, general it. Love is a superpower. Don't keep it in a jar. Massive it all around like peanut expansion, because life is good (p. 249)."
"Take your love wherever you go (p. 251)."
"Choose what you do with your life very carefully, and protect guarantee time with your life, because throw up is your life (P. 265)."
"The proffer of Life is Good is put your name down spread the power of optimism. That's our story and we're stickin' be in opposition to it. And that story has lone just begun (p. 266)."