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“LBDC” Interview with Arianna Huffington: Best Advice
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder, president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, one of the world’s most influential news and information brands. She has been named in Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. Her 14th book, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder was published by Crown in March 2014 and debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestseller list.
The “LBDC” was delighted to get an opportunity to interview Arianna Huffington following the publication of her fab new book: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder.
Q. What is the best piece of advice you ever got?
Arianna Huffington: One of my mother’s favorite sayings, which embodied the philosophy of her life, was “Don’t Miss the Moment.”
Q. What is the best piece of business advice you ever got?
Arianna Huffington: Not only is there no tradeoff between living a well-rounded life and high performance, performance is actually improved when our lives include time for renewal, wisdom, wonder and giving.
Q. What is the best piece of “Thrive” advice you would give someone?
Arianna Huffington: I have twelve steps I recommend in Thrive, and each one of us needs to pick the step that most resonates with us. Here are just three of the twelve:
-Have a specific time at night when you regularly turn off your devices— and gently escort them out of your bedroom. Disconnecting from the digital world will help you reconnect to your wisdom, intuition, and creativity. And when you wake up in the morning, don’t start your day by looking at your smartphone. Take one minute— trust me, you do have one minute— to breathe deeply, or be grateful, or set your intention for the day.
-Introduce five minutes of meditation into your day. Eventually, you can build up to fifteen or twenty minutes a day (or more), but even just a few minutes will open the door to creating a new habit— and all the many proven benefits it brings.
-Drop something that no longer serves you. I did a major “life audit” when I turned forty, and I realized how many projects I had committed to in my head— such as learning German and becoming a good skier and learning to cook. Most remained unfinished, and many were not even started. Yet these countless incomplete projects drained my energy and diffused my attention. As soon as the file was opened, each one took a little bit of me away. It was very liberating to realize that I could “complete” a project by simply dropping it— by eliminating it from my to-do list. Why carry around this unnecessary baggage? That’s how I completed learning German and becoming a good skier and learning to cook and a host of other projects that now no longer have a claim on my attention.
-Colin Carroll
on behalf of the
The Lawyers’ Business Development CLUB 