Anna
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Anna
!If you're always the emotional therapist for your friends, maybe it’s time to stop charging your soul for their insecurities.!
ok so here is something I thought I would never write. Maybe it is one of the meanest and yet truest things I ever said.
Being surrounded and being friends with insecure people is exhausting. Especially as a warm and caring
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In order to make sure that your community’s purpose is grounded in your people’s needs, and that it expresses what you can accomplish together, consider: 1. What do my people need more of? 2. What’s the change we desire? 3. What’s the problem only we can solve together?
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
key: time and faith. Believing in the little steps unfolding over time —> in an age of fast, and gogogo believing in time is crucial
Gardening is not outcome-oriented. A successful harvest is not the end of a gardener's existence, but only a phase of it. As any gardener knows, the vitality of a garden does not end with a harvest. It simply takes another form. Gardens do not "die" in the winter but quietly prepare for another season
James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
There are so many more people we haven’t met yet, ideas we’ve never imagined, philosophical framings that we have yet to stumble upon. Part of our lifework is to find them. Not only through carefully planned research projects, but also by way of random discoveries—those moments we didn’t see coming, and didn’t know we were looking for.
They told us productivity would set us free. So we organized and optimized and checked all the boxes. We became very good at being very busy.
But in the quiet moments between tasks, I felt something missing. Not the missing of empty inboxes or completed lists. The missing of wonder. Of discovery. Of the slow, sacred act of paying attention.
So I buil
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