Are you in a tangle?
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Are you in a tangle?
So, technically, it’s irrational to feel troubled by an overwhelming to-do list. You’ll do what you can, you won’t do what you can’t, and the tyrannical inner voice insisting that you must do everything is simply mistaken. We rarely stop to consider things so rationally, though, because that would mean confronting the painful truth of our limitatio
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Five invitations for deciding between action and introspection:
Here are a few invitations I’ve found helpful for discerning whether it’s time to do something... or to pause and listen more deeply.
1. Reframe stillness as a form of progress.
Clarity isn’t always loud. Sometimes the most important movement happens when we’re quiet enough to hear what... See more
Here are a few invitations I’ve found helpful for discerning whether it’s time to do something... or to pause and listen more deeply.
1. Reframe stillness as a form of progress.
Clarity isn’t always loud. Sometimes the most important movement happens when we’re quiet enough to hear what... See more
Push or Pause?
We must make time, as often as once a day, to lie very still on our own somewhere, probably in bed or maybe in the bath, to close our eyes and direct our attention toward one of many tangled or murky topics that deserve reflection: a partner, a work challenge, an invitation, a forthcoming trip, a relationship with a child or a parent. We might need
... See moreAlain de Botton • A Therapeutic Journey: Lessons from The School of Life
Let Go to Accept. Letting go of old patterns and areas of resistance can sometimes happen in an “aha moment,” especially for everyday matters such as resistance to working on that expense report, to coming back from vacation, or to our email inboxes piling up. In cases like these, just being able to recognize that the expectation to have an empty i
... See moreAmy Jen Su • The Leader You Want to Be
what might be helpful to you right now? What different perspective might be available?
Doug Silsbee • Presence-Based Coaching: Cultivating Self-Generative Leaders Through Mind, Body, and Heart
Are you worried? Do you have many “what if” thoughts? You are identified with your mind, which is projecting itself into an imaginary future situation and creating fear. There is no way that you can cope with such a situation, because it doesn’t exist. It’s a mental phantom. You can stop this health-and life-corroding insanity simply by acknowledgi
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