What do you allow and what do you suppress in the privacy of your own mind? Does the habit of limiting and restricting input – light, sound, chaos, profusions, and multiplicities – extend to keeping your own thoughts at bay? We are unobserved inside our own minds. What if, in the pure privacy of your […]
I’m going through a growth spurt. It’s messy and unpleasant. I wobble without cease. My foundation keeps shifting. Not that I’m knocking growth spurts. No, indeed. A hefty growth spurt, one that knocks the pins out from underneath to make way for a stronger platform to jump from, often does the heavy lifting required to […]
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Toss out the unloved and unused Don’t finish Put up a temporary wall Say “I don’t know” Loosen your grip Don’t tell anyone where you’re going Let them talk Clear the decks Hire help Excuse yourself and leave Expand your view Put down the sword Go where you can be anonymous Wing it Don’t equate […]
This list is much more powerful than its 32 individual ways. Do as many as possible to vastly increase synergy, energy, possibilities, inspiration, and forward movement. Do them all. Be you, be gentle, and still fill the coffers. {Links in curly brackets lead to related reading.} Contain and Focus – Set aside blocks of time […]
My husband and I are in the midst of dealing with what we’ve dubbed La Bombe – the bomb our landlord dropped on us when he informed us that he and his new family will move into our apartment. We’ve got until the end of October. Tricky timing, though. The upcoming winter Olympics here in […]
Need a lift? Freshen up by taking mini-holidays throughout the day. What gives you a hit of joy? Perhaps it’s watching a three-minute digital slide show of your five-year-old. Or reading today’s post from a blogger who’s guaranteed to make you laugh. Or unscrewing the lid of a vial of lavender oil. Consider the physical […]
Jon D. Andre was kind enough to invite me to send him my Five Rules of Life, which he published last week. If the idea appeals, write your own and submit them to Jon, or do it just for yourself. See the Five Rules of Life site for interesting and thought-provoking compilations. Grace Kerina’s Five […]
Time management is only necessary when the things we want to accomplish threaten to take up more time than we easily have for them. Since I know that my high sensitivity steers me toward wanting to please others and I can usually see a lot of subtle ways to make things more complete or useful […]
