Awakening in Time

view the discrepancy between our expectations and what is happening as just an observation—

Date each entry—a chronological trigger may help your recall.

shame about the conditions of life on Earth, about our needs for sleep, society, love, exercise, and everything else that humans need and computers don’t.

that taking time to cultivate friendship sustains life beyond the job.

This exercise demonstrates a fundamental challenge in time management—to stay in contact with one’s own agenda while participating with other agendas.

We can get into those big tasks, like deciding to change jobs, without going on a weekend retreat—

ask for time to think it over so we can establish a clearer connection

It works best if we can develop a middle way. Instead of pushing, we step back and soften our boundary to include the intruder. We acknowledge that the other person has a point—what they’re asking seems perfectly reasonable to them. We give them some space, although we may not ultimately agree with them or do what they ask. On the other side, inste

We’re in a perfect situation to do things differently. More and more people are realizing that the way they’re living isn’t sustainable.