The principles of Life-Engineering
Life-Engineering is the process by which you engineer your life to change your future. You are the architect of your destiny and your life will be what you make of it (read more).
But more than just superficial motivation, what’s covered here are real principles that really work. After all, engineering implies a scientific, studious approach to accomplishing something you desire.
Often these are principles extrapolated from other disciplines, fields like cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, neuroscience, manufacturing, business, and physics.
Principles tend to be universal in nature. The laws of physics, for instance, can usually be applied in compelling, and often surprising ways while engineering our own lives, or families, or businesses.
Your ability to achieve your dreams, goals, and aspirations, indeed your ability to change your life, can be dramatically influenced by deconstructing what you want to do, and applying some of these principles, where appropriate.
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- The Pareto principle
- The principle of scarcity
- Are you failing on a regular basis?
- Change blindness and the “all of a sudden” syndrome
- We are the product of our thoughts
- Your own personal sweet spot
- Sea shells and opportunities
- What dealerships know about motivation
- The art of breaking down barriers
- Just be yourself
- Life is what you make of it
- What are you waiting for
- Standing out from the crowd
- Self-imposed limitations
- Gravity’s lesson on influence
- Cycle time
- What does it take to be a hero
- Overcoming Entropy
- Straining toward achievement
- Living simply, living now
- Small and simple things
- Beware the rear-view mirror
- Truth about consumption
- It’s all about attitude
- Emotional supply lines
- The power of packaging
- Must be opposition in all things
- Principle based leadership
- Putting life into perspective
- 4 reasons why hope breeds success
- Reconciling hope with failure
- Staying in tune
- Spiritual Entropy
- Do you measure yourself?
- It’s not the critic who counts
- Abundance Mentality
- Life’s windshield wiper
- 3D’s of exalted living
- Your spiritual ecosystem
- The underestimated power of faith
- Blessed nature of simplicity
- To teach, or not to teach
- Can’t we all just get along
- Transparency in our lives
- Phantom leg syndrom
- Holding on for dear life
- What do you care?
- Poly pocket doesn’t growl
- The sleeping sickness
- Placebo – the power of belief
