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Luckily, my parents never harbored the illusion that parenting ends when your kids leave the house

Next, look to the future. Write down the very next step (it might be “ask colleague for input;

Do you feel like sometimes you have to take any client just to manage your cash flow situation?

Despite a 75% increase in advertising, evidence shows we’re paying less attention to any given product, service, message, or medium.

Here, you would set the timer for fifteen minutes.

It was Descartes, too, who formed the project of a School of Arts and Crafts, where each artisan would learn fully to understand the theoretical bases of his own craft; he thus showed himself to be more socialist, in the matter of culture, than all Marx’s disciples

When we turn pro, we stop running from our fears.

The office no longer seems magical, but my morning ritual—and the way it evokes the spirit of my father—decidedly does.

This is a predictable characteristic of those who have matured into their dharma. We see it in every other character we’ve examined: Goodall, Thoreau, Whitman, and Frost. Rugged and common as a stone. As the inner life of the practitioner of dharma becomes more complex, the outer life becomes simpler.