new essay on balancing will / agency with allowing / flow https://t.co/CwHfvoqTCP
Just âgoing with the flowâ drains the purpose from your work and life, makes personal and professional relationships seem tenuous and uncertain, and almost guarantees that youâll fail to live with intention. All this means you may not accomplish things youâd really like to accomplish.
Susan David ⢠Emotional Agility
After all, we are an ecosystem and ultime control or certainty are unachievable. Only a balance between intentionality and openness can lead us to better understand and navigate within ourselves, others and the world around us.
Nadia Guerroui, https://www.nadiaguerroui.com/en/chance-and-choice
- Go with the flow. Donât try to control the events, things, or people in your life with an iron fist. Youâll feel much happier, and more serene, if you let things happen of their own accord.
Francine Jay ⢠Miss Minimalist: Inspiration to Downsize, Declutter, and Simplify
Thereâs a phrase in Chinese, âwu wei,â that describes how I felt. In English, its translation is ânon-doing,â but not in the sense of doing nothing. Non-doing is not about escaping anything or being lazy but instead refers to a deep level of connectedness with the world. The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu wrote about this more than 2,500 years ago in
... See morePaul Millerd ⢠The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.â
I suppose what Iâm trying to offer here, both to myself and to you, is this:
Permission to trust what is happening when you canât seem to find the words.
Permission to take off your meaning-making hat and simply soften into the moment.
Permission to let what you lo... See more
I suppose what Iâm trying to offer here, both to myself and to you, is this:
Permission to trust what is happening when you canât seem to find the words.
Permission to take off your meaning-making hat and simply soften into the moment.
Permission to let what you lo... See more