Renee De Four
@reneedefour
Renee De Four
Cultivate curiosity. To truly grow throughout your life, embrace the inquisitiveness of a child. Curious people are never bored, turning life into an endless exploration of joy.
- Tony Robbins
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#minimalistartwork #visualwisdom... See more
instagram.com“I want to remind you of something I've talked about before, which is when you sit down at your computer to get work done, to work on your business, I don't want you to work, I want you to play. In that first pocket of time, when you're most energized and you've practically just woken up, instead of using that optimal energy to look at your to-do
... See moreFrom The Magic is You: Michelle's Magical Productivity Hack, 3 Aug 2023
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🌀 Agnes Martin - My Rabbit Hole of Exploration
Here is the answer to the question I asked in the first post. Agnes Martin discovered that painting was all she needed to be fulfilled in this life. I wonder at what age in life did she discover this? Was it an innate knowing or did she struggle?
I envy people like this who know what their “thing” is. I’m 30 years old and it frustrates me deeply that I don’t have a strong affiliation with one thing. Whether that’s writing, or reading, painting or playing an instrument. I’m starting to wonder if I need to try new things?
What I do enjoy - building workflows with digital tools, solving problems by creating systems does not feel like an artistic thing!
I can build and perfect a Notion or Tana workflow for hours until a solution is found but something feels like it’s missing. Maybe it’s because it’s not tangible like painting?
I don’t know but I think I need to pick up pottery - maybe that will be my thing.
Update 1/4/25 9:15 pm - This quote also reminds me of Hirayama from Perfect Days. He too discovered something far more precious than material accumulation.
I usually go to the mall to perform a kind of an anthropological expedition once a year and I see nothing there which interests me.
Jacob Lund Fisker • » How I live on $7,000 per year Early Retirement Extreme: — a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism
So let’s generalize this and say that retirement without doing what excites you is not a good retirement. What we actually need to understand here is the different perceptions of retirement: To some retirement means sitting in Florida and staring at a wall, to others it’s hang gliding in Tahiti, and to some it simply means not having to work.
Underminers - a guide to subverting the machine by Keith Farnish