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A life fueled by family, friends and fun = Freedom. Swam across the bay to those slides and to the other side. I love Spain. Could live here. 🇪🇸 🌞 Let’s get on the same page about the definition of “happiness.’ Scientists often use the word “happiness” and “well-being” interchangeably. 🌞 Researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky says happiness is “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.” 🌞 What does happiness mean to you? Please comment below with insights on what makes you happy. Wouldn’t it be cool to see where we are all coming from in life and grow together? 1. 🎈 Hire stuff out. “We want to seem like we have it all together and we might be therefore resistant to spending money on timesaving purchases even when we can afford it.” — Professor Ashley Whillans 2. 🎈Hang out. “Loneliness kills. It’s as powerful as smoking or alcoholism.” — Robert Waldinger 3. 🎈Show gratitude. “Gratitude is an attainment associated with emotional maturity.” 4. 🎈Focus on “meaning,” not happiness. “You draw meaning from a larger context, so you need to look beyond yourself to find the purpose in what you’re doing.” — Roy Baumeister 5. 🎈 RESPECT YOURSELF = RESPECT OTHERS = BE RESPECTED. “In a series of four experiments, researchers found that it is the level of respect and admiration we receive from peers — not overall wealth or success — that more likely predicts happiness. They refer to this level of respect and admiration as our “sociometric status,” as opposed to socioeconomic status (SES).” (Berkeley) #nortonsdostuff #richieandnatalie #ruckuslist #richienorton #entrepreneur (at San Sebastián, Pais Vasco, Spain)

So grateful to hang with @_jillthomas and fam in the Land O Swiss!! // 🇨🇭 During my travels in Europe I’ve been contemplating the gifts that The Greatest Generation gave us. The gift boils down to freedom. Here are the 4 freedoms the Greatest Generation gifted us. I codified these 4 gifts into an acronym “GIFT” so we can all remember and alas them down to our children and posterity. G.I.F.T. The 4 Freedoms of the Freedoms Ecosystem: Freedom of Geography Freedom of Influence Freedom of Finances Freedom of Time Loaded question: Since you’re free, what gift are you giving others? If you could gift anything in the next two years to yourself, family, community, church or the world, what would you gift? (2 years because it makes your big dreams possible a lot sooner.) #richieandnatalie @natalienorton #entrepreneur #ruckuslist #nortonsdostuff (at Switzerland)

What we are doing is absolutely not taught in college. If you follow me, you know I’m a fan of big thinking but breaking it all down into 2 year increments. Anything longer is hard on the brain to be productive. The world changes too much. I run 3 successful small businesses with various product lines. There isn’t a single thing in college or MBA school that taught me to do what I do now. Why college when all information is free and accessible in an instant? One answer: To learn how to think. Choose teachers, not classes. Choose interests, not majors. Choose to do personal projects that have nothing to do with a grade, but make a difference to others. I graduated college in Dec. 2004. FB was released to the public in Feb. 2004. Youtube came out Feb. 2005. Twitter came out July 2006. Instagram came out publicly about 2010. There was no way to communicate with tens of thousands of people at one time, every day, like I do now. There was no way to reach freelancers globally. There was no way to work from home or on the road effectively. There was no way to talk to anyone, anywhere, effectively with a text or FaceTime. Guys…this era is the dream of generations! Don’t get lost on the fun toys of Tech…look for ways to make it be productive AND fun. 😉 A time when the work (any work) is ushered with the speed of light practically compared to even 100 years ago. Can you imagine life in your country in 1918? A recent article reads, “Facebook admits that social media can be bad for you.” Why would Facebook publish that? They didn’t. It’s a lie by media looking for clicks. Want to know it actually says? FB newsroom: “The bad: In general, when people spend a lot of time passively consuming information — reading but not interacting with people — they report feeling worse afterward.” “The good: On the other hand, actively interacting with people — especially sharing messages, posts and comments with close friends and reminiscing about past interactions — is linked to improvements in well-being.” Isn’t this true to life? Social media is a mirror. You’re in the game, sidelines, stands or not in the stadium. #nortonsdostuff #ruckuslist #entrepreneur (at Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland)

Portugal is the world’s best kept secret. I could live here. Wow. Wow. Wow. Love this quote from a Portuguese philosopher, “Não me interessa ser original: interessa-me ser verdadeiro.” 🙌🏽 “I’m not interested in being original; I’m interested in being true.” Also, 🙌🏽 “To live is more important than to have lived; and life is only real life when we feel something different outside of us.” Also, 🙌🏽 “Man was not born to work, but to create.” - Agostinho da Silva // #portugal #ruckuslist #nortonsdostuff #richienorton (at Porto, Portugal)

Travel is oxygen for the soul. 2019 told me what to do. 2020 is go time. Here’s the 34 major stops I made in 2019. (SWIPE!). I took ⁣ - Crossed the Pacific 23 times ⁣ - Crossed the Atlantic 2 times ⁣ I learned fun and work can be the same thing if you want. I also took tens of thousands of pictures. No joke. I currently have about 150,000 photos and 35,000 videos on my phone. Apple store dude told me it’s the most they’d ever seen. ⁣ ⁣ I need a new passport. It’s full and expiring. Where will you and I go in 2020?⁣ ⁣ 2019⁣ 1. Las Vegas, NV⁣ 2. Alpine and Heber, UT ⁣ 3. Hawai’i⁣ 4. Japan⁣ 5. Hawai’i⁣ 6. Nashville, TN ⁣ 7. Hawai’i ⁣ 8. Park City, UT⁣ 9. San Diego, CA⁣ 10. Hawaii⁣ 11. China⁣ 12. Hawai’i⁣ 13. China⁣ 14. Macau⁣ 15. China⁣ 16. Hawai’i ⁣ 17. Florida⁣ 18. Hawai’i⁣ 19. China⁣ 20. Hawai’i⁣ 21. China⁣ 22. Thailand⁣ 23. China⁣ 24. Hawai’i ⁣ 25. Utah⁣ 26. Hawai’i ⁣ 27. LA⁣ 28. Hawai’i ⁣ 29. London ⁣ 30. Scotland⁣ 31. London ⁣ 32. Utah ⁣ 33. Hawai’i ⁣ 34. (Secret) ;) Follow #nortonsdostuff #richieshow #richiepodcast #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #entrepreneurship #family (at Heaven on Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6cTEfpBhDu/?igshid=lohjepi0pfv7

Surfed with my kids at Sunset Beach into the sunset the other day. @natalienorton watched from shore, but it’s a far paddle to the break so it’s hard to see. A full rainbow framed the mountains behind her. Amazing. The sets were big. Like big enough to hold you down long enough that you would almost throw up. It started to rain. Like almost torrential. The waves looked cool in the wind. Like waves within waves. I can only describe the experience like we were inside a snow globe of rain. The sky got all shook up and the crescent moon disappeared behind a giant brush stroke of pink and purple rainbow rain. The sun got covered by the clouds but it shown through like a giant full moon. Smiles couldn’t be wiped from anyone’s face in the line up. Water on top. Water everywhere. So rad. So colorful. So good. Love my fam. Walking home. Showering off in the backyard. Looking at the shadowy silhouetting palm trees with the pink and purple backdrop. Can’t believe this is a daily occurrence. People tell me when they travel with me that i state the obvious and appreciate the little things and get overly pumped about it. I guess it’s true. Ironically, someone has to point that out to me. Lol. Life is good right now. God is good always. #ruckuslist #family #entrepreneurship #nortonsdostuff (at North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Jd6OUBGtY/?igshid=3prf8154fpi0

When you go to a nice hotel...and go to the pool...and eat at the bar...you get looks if you have kids. I look back confidently, “Yeah, I’m THAT guy. I bring children to your secret lair to destroy it.” It wasn’t really that bad, but this place only has...NINE ROOMS. So...exclusive. Hahah! Actually everyone was cool, but even the boys felt the eyes and mentioned it. ⁣ ⁣ I taught them that when you feel uncomfortable because you’re not 32-52 and single with your shirt off and taking selfies alone with a selfie stick and trying to hook up (just joking... I didn’t say that...and I took more pictures than they did...but that was the vibe and there is nothing wrong with that either...it’s just more foreign to my kids than chillen with locals in Barcelona)...⁣ ⁣ ...what I did teach them is that when you feel uncomfortable it doesn’t mean you have to leave. ⁣ ⁣ You have to get comfortable feeling uncomfortable. ⁣ ⁣ There are way too many adults scared to go anywhere they haven’t been or do anything important because they feel uncomfortable. ⁣ ⁣ Tragic. ⁣ ⁣ If we want confident kids, we have to teach them how to be comfortable when they are uncomfortable....then we’ll have confident adults that raise confident children. ⁣ ⁣ Building confidence means LITERALLY going outside the comfort zone. ⁣ ⁣ All is well. We had a blast. Kids hopped in the pool with me and the the cool crowd with Greek 🍸 and now I’m sure they’ll feel comfortable in other uncomfortable situations. ⁣ ⁣ Confidence is about respect for self and others. When I give speeches to large crowds (which is less scary than small crowds), I’ll whisper to myself before I go on “confidence, confidence, confidence.” // #ruckuslist #nortonsdostuff #santorini We raise confident adults by being one. (at Santorini Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0wc3yoha_I/?igshid=u0463os8h0qa

What are you willing to stop doing to start becoming the human (family, creator, artist, author, athlete, boss, beast) you need to become? #ruckuslist #nortonsdostuff #richieandnatalie (at Sunset Beach, Hawaii) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvsUhmpBnrw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gjtalrksjhm9