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There Is A Purpose To Our Lives, Even If It Is Sometimes Hidden From Us, And Even If The Biggest Turning Points And Heartbreaks Only Make Sense As We Look Back, Rather Than As We Are Experiencing Them. So We Might As Well Live Life As If - As The Poet Rumi Put It - Everything Is Rigged In Our Favor.

Never Make Decisions From A Place Of Lack.

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's Goal Is To Produce A Broad Range Of Investigative Journalism Created By Both Staff Reporters And Freelance Writers, With A Focus On Working With The Many Experienced Reporters And Writers Impacted By The Economic Contraction. The Pieces Will Range From Long-form Investigations To Short Breaking News Stories And Will Be Presented In A Variety Of Media - Including Text, Audio, And Video.

What Preoccupies Us Is The Way We Define Success. If You See Your Life Purely In Terms Of Money And Power, Then Everything In Your Life Becomes About 'am I Getting Ahead?' And That Is Truly A Barbaric Way To Live, Because It Eliminates Huge Chunks Of Our Humanity.

What's The Third Metric Beyond Money And Power? I Think It's A Combination Of Wellbeing And Wisdom. Because The Problem Also With Defining Success Just In Terms Of Money And Power Means That People Feel That They Have To Work Around The Clock, Burn Out, And The Result Is People Making Terrible Decisions.