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Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five interconnected sites.
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave alone”. — Henry David Thoreau
This one is particularly painful for me to read. Why? Because more is better. Right?
I mean, five blogs a day? Are you kiddin’ me? Who does that?
Me. Guilty. Rut roe.
More is not better, except in a few things.
While visiting the West Coast, maybe there will be time to do less, think less, read less.
Probably not.
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“The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it”. — Goerthe
In our younger years, most of us had the luxury of not having overwhelming schedules. Being bored was common. And we dreamed of an exciting life.
Careful what you wish for, especially if you don’t read the fine print, “Exciting, as in overwhelmingly busy; insanely busy”.
I hung an old-fashioned wooden sign on our dining room wall which reads:
“The meaning of life is to learn how to enjoy the passage of time”.
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“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity”. — Robert Louis Stevenson
“To have a strong sense of personal identity requires being idle”. — jeff noel
There’s much to be said for both.
But not much more to be said right now.
Seize this day. It’s yours. Hurry up and do nothing.
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“Outside a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read”. — Groucho Marx
I read every day. Currently reading Seth Godin’s Purple Cow.
It’s a book about what it takes to be remarkable. If you saw a herd of cows in a big field and one of them was purple, that would be remarkable. It’s a business book.
And yet, I can’t help but correlate it to life, especially mid life.
There’s a temptation, in mid life, to think that we are past prime and there’s no point to reinventing ourselves.
Bullcrap.
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“It is an old ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way”. — Rollo May
I’m tempted to question myself. Why? Because many I talk with, think I’m crazy to believe that people will want to change if the right recipe comes along.
There is a secret recipe. Everyone knows it. But because we ignore it, it remains a secret.
The secret is, “work hard and find your purpose”.
Most people don’t want to do either. I certainly didn’t. Most of my life was, “Work hard, play hard”. That’s a catch phrase for, “Hurry up, we’re lost”.
Then I regained consciousness and started looking around. There’s much work to be done. The harvest is great, the workers are few.
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