A message to your younger self
If you’re exhausted from over-thinking every possible bump in the road, this message is for you.
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Perspective and doing life differently
We don’t have much time, so it’s important to fill the time we do have with as much quality as we can. Here’s how to make the most of your moments.
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Cake or Death?
Is life always a battle between two opposing forces?
Or, if you step sideways from the fear, is there only one?
What if all of life could be easy? A new way of living and working
Sometimes I get my job all wrong. I think its about all the things I need to get done. I get wrapped up in all the urgent details.
And yet that’s not my job at all.
My true job is to make all of life easy.
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What you can learn from people at the end of their lives
Death can be inspiring. You see, people at the end of their lives often – not always, but indeed often – have a lot of insight into how they would live if they had their time again.
They have a clarity and perspective about what is truly important and what is merely urgent that many of us don’t have when we’re slap bang in the middle of the managed chaos of our to-do lists.
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Keeping the important things truly important.
I got an email from Brasil (spelt with an ’s’ of course) the other day. I’m impressed about that, and I’m probably showing off by mentioning that the writer is from Brasil. It might appear that I’m attempting to impress upon you that I’m very international, but I am telling you of this, fundamentally, because the writer asked a
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Taking nothing seriously – the most important thing you can do.
The one single biggest thing you can do to have a better life? Take nothing seriously. It’s such an old Ishaya principle, it’s almost a motto. But it is such an uncommon skill amongst humanity it’s worth repeating, frequently.
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The wisdom of choosing to be happy.
“Oh, I don’t really think about that, because it’s wasted energy, isn’t it? What’s done is done, we can’t change that, but we can change the way we cope with it.” – Diane Piper, mother of Katie whose face was burnt in an acid attack, when asked how she felt about the attackers Everyone has challenges.
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The hidden danger of indifference
“The opposite of love isn’t hate; it’s indifference” – Steven Pressfield Indifference is a very subtle beast, yet once fallen into leads a long way down a grey and winding path indeed. Like a sleepwalker wandering deeper and deeper into the forest, life becomes lost not through deliberate choice but through not paying attention.
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Regrets? Why not make a life so you don’t have any?
I saw an article the other day – it’s from a few years back, but it’s still really fresh. The author interviewed elderly people on their death beds as to their regrets. Although its about people who are dying, it is really advice for people who are living.
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