“No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.” — Carl Jung
“Life will break you,” Louise Erdrich wrote in her passionate insistence that “you are here to risk your heart.” It can happen with a shattering, or with a thousand small fissures, but the great paradox — the great salvation — is that every time it happens, you live to see you are unbreakable.
And so, a poem: https://t.co/z5fLjiJqfH
If you don’t prioritize, everything seems urgent and important.
If you define the single most important task for each day, almost nothing seems urgent or important.
Oftentimes, it’s just a matter of letting little bad things happen (return a phone call late and apologize, pay a small late fee, lose an unreasonable customer, etc.) to get the big important things done.
The answer to overwhelm is not spinning more plates—or doing more—it’s defining the few things that can really fundamentally change your business and life.
"Let us become intimate with poverty, so that Fortune may not catch us off our guard. We shall be rich with all the more comfort, if we once learn how far poverty is from being a burden." – Seneca
The ability to quickly reset and recover. From a bad interaction. From a bad day. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. You can start over whenever you want. You can't always control what happened, but you can control how long you carry it.
“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.”
On Jack Kerouac's birthday today, his 30 tenets of writing and life
https://t.co/8vU4F40wDh
Difficult books demand patience because they ask the reader to slow down and think carefully about each idea. In a world filled with quick information and constant distraction, the act of reading slowly becomes a form of intellectual discipline. The reader who struggles through complex ideas gradually develops a stronger mind. Understanding does not appear instantly, but grows through repeated effort and reflection. Just as physical exercise strengthens the body, intellectual effort strengthens the mind. The reader who learns to endure the temporary confusion of difficult books eventually discovers insights that remain hidden from those who only seek easy reading.