When I trained as a coach, we were taught to see action as made up of two processes: there were things we needed to do and ways we needed to be. For example, if you wanted to get a promotion at work you might need to take on a big ticket project or set up a meeting with your boss to discuss your future. These would be examples of doing things. But

"Le Carré has suggested that espionage is a kind of metaphor; we all live undercover and mask our private selves with projected social personalities. “Most of us live,” he said, “in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.”"

"“CHAMPAGNE, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector,”

Don’t associate failure with unworthiness

“If we associate failure with unworthiness, then starting anything new is going to feel overwhelming and procrastination will be front and center. We protect ourselves from the psychological threat of shame by sabotaging the process before it gets started.”

Anacharsis said that laws are like cobwebs, strong enough to hold the weak, but too weak to hold the strong