Until you have developed the mental or emotional muscles to power through this stuff, there is not a tool in the world that is going to help you out. If you’re a runner, put your shoes on, go out and run. Don’t sit there reading about lacing patterns and stopwatches. If you’re a writer, write. Don’t play with apps, write
Quotes
Why are you so petrified of silence?
Here can you handle this?Did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines?
Or when you think you’re gonna die?
Or did you long for the next distraction?
Alanis Morissette – All I Really Want
So here’s my suggestion to you: find a system that works for you; don’t place yourself into someone else’s system. If you find your brain works better while you doodle with a pen in a notebook, embrace it. Write your ToDos by hand instead of using a computer or an iPad. This is the system that works best for me, and I don’t expect it to work best for you.
The GTD app for the rest of us: Pen and Moleskine? | Macgasm
Words to live by.
Only when we’re fully aware of a moment can we be truly happy. Someday I will not be able to smell the needles on the pine tree in my yard. Perhaps I’ll be incapacitated, or maybe the tree will be gone. Perhaps I’ll live elsewhere. Definitely I’ll be dead. But today — right now — I’m holding fresh pine needles and lifting them to my nose. This tree and I exist in this very same day, time, hour, minute and moment. How lucky for us both. I can see how tall it is, feel its bark, enjoy its scent. How tremendously fortunate I am to have this time.
Dave Caolo – Paying attention now because someday I’ll be dead
Fantastic post on mindfulness and the value of time (which I often, and fairly, refer to as the most valuable resource in the universe).
All I’m saying is, I don’t always have to know the answer, but I like it when the option of knowing is available.
Knowable – Neven Mrgan’s tumbl
I’ve read this piece several times now. Love this last sentence. It really speaks to me. Also, the music recommendations he makes therein are wonderful.
Through stacks of unread books, seas of feeds, people, invitations, events, and unanswered emails, if we stand still long enough, if we listen and look, if we pause, we see that nothing is ever the same again tomorrow.
Liz Danzico – The extraordinary of doing ‘being ordinary’ – Bobulate
My new favorite sentence on the internet. Such a gracefully and humanely stated lesson on mindfulness and our ability to achieve it even in the face of today’s demands on our mental bandwidth.
Beautiful is the world, slow is one to take advantage.
Charlie “Bird” Parker – Letters of Note
I look into my screen as if an abyss. Trying to wrap my head around the several projects not yet formed. Trying to stall by searching for the right tool. Knowing it is not about the tool. Any one of the several I have will do. I must simply act.
Fifty words on me right now – My results from Randy Murray’s excellent writing assignment.
For the digitally excluded, the route to the world wide web is via the heart, not the brainbox. We just need to work out what they love. Then show them how to find it
Broomeshtick — FirstPlaces. A prototype thing for digital inclusion.
- This is one of my favorite paragraphs on the internet right now.
- Alone, it could be titled “Why Curation Matters”.
- I love it when the commentary on a link is just as clever and insightful as the post it links to.
If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.