BY: JACKY CARTER
When Arianna Huffington says she wants you to sleep your way to the top, she's not kidding.
In her latest book, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder, Huffington advocates that getting more sleep can improve our creativity, our ability to make decisions and our overall well-being. WithThrive and the accompanying three-city live event, Huffington is championing that we need to focus more on the quality of the life we're living instead of obsessing about we're achieving.
Some of her secrets to tackling the challenge include kicking all your electronic devices out of the bedroom, having a meditation practice and giving back to others.
What else does Huffington want you to know? Check out the video for more on why you shouldn't sacrifice your health in order to advance your career and the poem that changed her outlook on life.
In her latest book, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom and Wonder, Huffington advocates that getting more sleep can improve our creativity, our ability to make decisions and our overall well-being. WithThrive and the accompanying three-city live event, Huffington is championing that we need to focus more on the quality of the life we're living instead of obsessing about we're achieving.
Some of her secrets to tackling the challenge include kicking all your electronic devices out of the bedroom, having a meditation practice and giving back to others.
What else does Huffington want you to know? Check out the video for more on why you shouldn't sacrifice your health in order to advance your career and the poem that changed her outlook on life.
Arianna had so many powerful things to share in her interview with LinkedIn,
but we didn't have time to include them all in the video. Here's more
of her great insights on confidence, success and self-care.
LINKEDIN: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
ARIANNA: The best piece of advice was from my mother who said to me that failure is not the opposite of success; it’s a stepping-stone to success. So don’t be afraid to take risks and to fail along the way.
LINKEDIN: What does confidence mean to you?
ARIANNA: Confidence is really trust in yourself. Whatever it is that connects you with your own source of strength and peace is whatever’s going to give you confidence.
LINKEDIN: Is success an end goal or an ongoing journey?
ARIANNA: I don’t see success as an end goal because we need to re-define what it is. Our culture has defined it in very shallow terms: money and power. And that’s not enough. That’s why I talk about thriving in this book. I talk about redefining success to include the third metric. Not just the two metrics of money and power, but the third metric that includes our well-being. If we’re undermining our health, as so many people are doing in the course of succeeding, we are just making a very, very terrible decision about our life.
The second thing is tapping into our own wisdom. How do we tap into our own intuition? Our own ability to make the right decisions? And the third thing is wonder. How can we not miss the moment? Enjoy life. See the magic, even in ordinary things. And the fourth thing: giving. If we fill our lives with giving, in small things, little kindnesses, bigger gestures of generosity, all these things add so much to our life and make us feel truly abundant.
Readers: What components do you think are important to your own success?
Visit Connect: Professional Women's Network to continue the conversation about issues that are relevant to women.
but we didn't have time to include them all in the video. Here's more
of her great insights on confidence, success and self-care.
LINKEDIN: What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
ARIANNA: The best piece of advice was from my mother who said to me that failure is not the opposite of success; it’s a stepping-stone to success. So don’t be afraid to take risks and to fail along the way.
LINKEDIN: What does confidence mean to you?
ARIANNA: Confidence is really trust in yourself. Whatever it is that connects you with your own source of strength and peace is whatever’s going to give you confidence.
LINKEDIN: Is success an end goal or an ongoing journey?
ARIANNA: I don’t see success as an end goal because we need to re-define what it is. Our culture has defined it in very shallow terms: money and power. And that’s not enough. That’s why I talk about thriving in this book. I talk about redefining success to include the third metric. Not just the two metrics of money and power, but the third metric that includes our well-being. If we’re undermining our health, as so many people are doing in the course of succeeding, we are just making a very, very terrible decision about our life.
The second thing is tapping into our own wisdom. How do we tap into our own intuition? Our own ability to make the right decisions? And the third thing is wonder. How can we not miss the moment? Enjoy life. See the magic, even in ordinary things. And the fourth thing: giving. If we fill our lives with giving, in small things, little kindnesses, bigger gestures of generosity, all these things add so much to our life and make us feel truly abundant.
Readers: What components do you think are important to your own success?
Visit Connect: Professional Women's Network to continue the conversation about issues that are relevant to women.