HACK YOUR LIFE! #HYL

This article is about ‘Fast Company Innovation Festival’ (#FCNY) I recently joined in New York, a movie called ‘It’s Kind Of A Funny Story’ (#IFS) I just watched, a book called ‘Wabi-Sabi for artists, designers, poets & philosophers’ (#WabiSabi) I just finished…And I spiced it up with life learnings that I cultivated over the years…

I will give you practical tips to hack your life for growth, building up on my previous writing ‘Design Your Life Like A Start Up’. 

We don’t have the time to live everything we want to live in one lifetime, right? So we need to hack it sometimes to test, iterate and grow!

Here is the one and only Hacking Tip: FACE IT!

1. Face Your Stomach Ache: What are the lessons of the universe?

2. Face Your Capabilities: Knowing what we know, how should we act?

3. Face Your Dreams & Unique Measures: What objects/ motifs/ juxtapositions express our understanding of the universe, or create that understanding in others?

4. Face Your Unity: What is the universe like?

1. Face Your Stomach Ache.

#WabiSabi: What are the lessons of the universe?

Everything that hurts you is a great compass. I’m talking about your feelings. Your ‘I can’t take it anymore!’ moments…Stress coming from your work, your school, your parents, your issues, your fears, your past mistakes or future challenges… Yes, life can be overwhelming and we all fail…

In #FCNY ‘The Creativity of Giving’ session Christy Turlington Burns from Every Mother Counts suggests; ‘Find out the cause what makes you cry, thats what you need to do in life.’ She founded the nonprofit as a result of suffering her own serious complication during childbirth. Instead of holding up to her difficult story as a victim, she is leading this movement to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother, everywhere.

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