Explore a Remarkable, Good Life
Welcome to the Good Life Lab and this page that highlights a few free resources. Hi, I'm Dr. Dave, if we haven't met yet on my YouTube channel or this website. I've provided tools here that can help you enhance your overall well-being, find greater direction, and clarify deeper meaning in life.
My goal is to introduce practical exercises that I've used personally and with my clients. Along with LifeLab Notes, my semi-regular blog and newsletter, you'll see the following workbooks: Your Remarkable (Memento Mori) 10-Year Good Life Quest and the Highs, Hurts and Elixirs personal story reflection tool. Upcoming resources include the Purpose Statement Builder and the Good Life Positioning System or GLPS.
Along with the tools, tips and techniques you may decide to play around with on this site, it is important to also consider what a remarkable, good life means to you. I've spent a lot of my life, probably 50 of the 60 years (I started young), thinking about the meaning of life. All of my graduate degrees, life experiences and tragedies (especially the tragedies) and global adventures, have helped my realize that a good and remarkable life has at least three key elements - love and connection with others, awe and wonder of something greater, and purposeful reason for being.
For me, a good life isn't about the 'high life' - lavish and luxurious living.
Although material success often follows, as you focus on what matters most to you, a remarkable, good life is one where you feel alive, connected, and of service—where your days add up to something meaningful and your presence makes the world better.
So, I'm curious what you've come to understand about the true meaning of a good life. If you aren't quite sure yet, perhaps this website, my YouTube channel and these exercises can assist in discovering what a remarkable existence on planet earth might look like for you.
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There's more to life than being happy | Emily Esfahani Smith
Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there's a more fulfilling path? Happiness comes and goes, says writer Emily Esfahani Smith, but having meaning in life -- serving something beyond yourself and developing the best within you -- gives you something to hold onto. Learn more about the difference between being happy and having meaning as Smith offers four pillars of a meaningful life.
On positive psychology
Martin Seligman
Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?
Grit: the power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.
Jane McGonigal The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
After suffering a severe concussion, Jane McGonigal expereinced physical debilitaion and suicidal tendencie. She searched the medical research for an answer to her problem. She discovered how to extend your life.
Positive Psychology Resources
What do you love? Creating a Life List
On positive psychology
Martin Seligman
Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?
What are you good at? Identifying your strengths
VIA Character Strengths Inventory
Keys to Well-being and Wheel of Life
There's more to life than being happy | Emily Esfahani Smith
Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there's a more fulfilling path? Happiness comes and goes, says writer Emily Esfahani Smith, but having meaning in life -- serving something beyond yourself and developing the best within you -- gives you something to hold onto. Learn more about the difference between being happy and having meaning as Smith offers four pillars of a meaningful life.
Grit: the power of passion and perseverance | Angela Lee Duckworth
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success.
Jane McGonigal The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
After suffering a severe concussion, Jane McGonigal expereinced physical debilitaion and suicidal tendencie. She searched the medical research for an answer to her problem. She discovered how to extend your life.