Work
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Treading the memory lane and building resilience
Are you feeling glum with how things are turning out for you today? How far have you been from where you started in this life? Most likely, you’ve lived a life rich with memories, no matter how mundane they’ve been. Remember all the people who first believed in you? Taking mental trips to the future,… Read more
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Urgent Optimists: an invitation
Hello, everyone! If you’ve been here for some time, perhaps you’ve read in one of my blog posts how I am part of a community, Urgent Optimists. If you have missed it, here’s what the Urgent Optimists community does: We’re bringing together people who want to feel authentically hopeful about the future, and who are… Read more
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Our concept of work
From the blog post And when is the shift over? If you sell your time as the measure of the work you do, the work is over when the shift ends. Clock in, clock out. If you sell your output as the measure of the work, your work is over when the inbox is empty.… Read more
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Just pick one
Listening to a video instruction made for professionals (supposed to be busy people), the recurring advice was this: If you don’t have the time, just pick one. And perhaps, we’ve forgotten the magic of learning even one new thing and the power of saying yes to only one thing in the face of so many… Read more
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Back up a little further
When one door closes in, right on your face, just back up a little bit. Then, perhaps, back up a little further. In that way, you’ll be able to see a broader view of what’s around you. Another door might be open on the other side but easy to miss because you’re probably too invested… Read more
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Fast foods, convenience foods, and sugar
As I was thinking about how time-consuming it is to prepare good meals, the satisfaction you get from creating something that people enjoy is gratifying. But why do we eat fast food, especially when we work in the city? Because the systems force us to. Unless you really made time to prepare your lunch at… Read more
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How do you spend your time?
How often do you begin your day? How do you spend it and end it with your hands almost and always groping around for your devices? Just as their creators envisioned a world where devices help us make the most of our day by taking away the things that consume most of our time, we… Read more
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