Knowing that I have a tendency to hoard information, what can I do to help myself? This post will talk about some big-picture mindsets that may help me to reframe the problem so that, looked at from this new perspective, it isn’t a problem any longer (or it’s a smaller problem that causes less pain). …
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Many of you are doing a splendid job getting clear on what you wish to create. You are stepping into your role of co-creator with mindfulness and excitement. This is, of course, wonderful, but what many of you are not realizing is that you are still supporting obstacles for yourself with the negative speech habits …
Lord Peter Wimsey remarked that “Books…are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with ’em, then we grow out of ’em and leave ’em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.” (The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club) I see the truth of that whenever I scan my bookshelves, my stacks of CDs, my files …
Steve Donoghue wrote what I thought was the best tribute to Vidal; it was graceful, heartfelt, lyrical. And absolutely the most gorgeous photo of the young Vidal I’ve ever seen. Though I will take him to task on Gore’s “abandoning his country”; Vidal always maintained US residence and lived in the US for the last decade …
Mr. Vidal himself never had much use for religion, Christianity especially, which he once called “intrinsically funny.” Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86 – NYTimes.com Source: The New York Times
When I first got the idea to restart the blogging, my first thought was: “No, don’t start this Monday, start next Monday.” It felt like the safe option: give myself time to scope out other blogging tools, come up with a list of topics,develop a workflow, etc. And then the second, more challenging voice of The …
Do not mold yourself to fit any idea I put forward. Mold the idea to fit you. This is a blog, not a religion. A personality cult with fascist leanings, yes, but not a religion. Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 6: Q&A | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Source: alljapaneseallthetime.com
Many people would like to change their lives and begin living more authentically but they don’t know where to start. All that is required is heartfelt gratitude for what you would like more of in your life, and heartfelt surrender of the rest. This is the formula to shift any situation into forward movement and …
Mark Forster recommended the use of timers in his book Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play. It sort of starts with the idea of timeboxing, a demarcated bit of time within which you choose to work on a specific task. A teacher may set aside 45 minutes to grade papers, say, and …
I have been inspired to restart blogging by, as usual, several seemingly random prompts that combusted in that imaginative furnace I am pleased to call my mind. The first was Shannon Wilkinson’s recent completion of 13 weeks of straight Monday-Friday blog posts. The challenge, of course, is in coming up with enough ideas to fill …
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