How much time do you think really productive and creative people spend wasting time, just re-thinking and re-planning and re-analysing? When you want to rule your world you don’t have a lot of time to do that, do you? It’s a kind of ruthlessness that I really admire, and I’ve been talking a little about
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It’s become increasingly apparent to me, In fact more than ever with the little froglet, That I don’t have any time to waste on unconscious frivolities. Time – even and especially when I want to spend it on conscious frivolities, is short. Someone wise once said: “Don’t manage your time, manage your attention”
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I’m exhausted. Poor me. Seems like every part of my body aches. The local river has been going nuts you see, And I’ve been on it, surfing my head off. In my new, very sporty kayak. My old one is like a bus compared to this model. So I’m well chuffed. Sumati calls it a
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Want to die from stress? No thanks – not me. I’m not being dramatic – stress is the biggest cause of illness and early death in the West. Everyone gets stressed and overwhelmed at some stage … And yet it is TOTALLY avoidable WITHOUT hiding away from the world. >>> If you realise this one
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Have you ever met someone who shocked you with what they said? Actually – yes, constantly. Let me put it another way – Has anyone ever shocked AND inspired you all at the same time? Can I tell you a little story? When I met my meditation teacher he did that. He gave me a
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As my wife has a small human attached to her breast most of the day it seems, I have been run around boy. Fetching and getting and plumping pillows and cooking and changing nappies. Previously I would have hated that. “What about ME? What about what I want to do?” … I would have moaned
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I was talking with a guy recently about how he might do his sport better. Let’s call him “Steve” so as not to shame him. He’s a runner and loving the park run scene and the improvements he’s seeing. Steve wanted to know how he might get even more of an advantage over his personal
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Sometimes there is an event that wakes you up to what is really most important to you. You see clearly – In an instant – That the stuff you have been worrying about, mulling over and otherwise giving far too much attention to, In fact, really isn’t all that big of a deal. I think
People are a joy. They can also make your life a misery. You may work with them – one term I heard recently: “moral hoovers” You may have them as bosses. You may have them as clients. You may have them in your family. You may not even know them – but you read about
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All fear is based on a thought about the future. See when you are racing off into an imagined future – see the source of fear. Stop racing into these thoughts and this future and therefore: Stop being afraid. Stay calm and centred, even in the middle of the most powerful uncertainty.
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