January 2009
6 posts
The Miracle
The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.
– Thich Nhat Hanh, Touching Peace
Stop. What are you doing right now? Take a couple of breaths and feel the air moving in and out of your body. Look around you. Try to be fully present and aware for the next few moments. That, my...
For the Filing Challenged
Found this gem via Lifehacker.
Having long been defeated by any filing system I’ve tried in the past, it’s time to go for the ultimate in simple filing:
So what is a filing challenged person to do?
(Get ready for the heresy)
File everything in a single box.
Brilliant.
Update: Gone through and emptied all my folders with paperwork from 2005-2008 into a single box, and have...
Tweaking the Morning Routine
New Years resolution goal #2: Wake up 30 minutes earlier in the morning.
After feeding and watering the cats I like to do an hour of sitting practice first thing in the morning. The routine I’ve followed for the past few months allows for that and nothing else. As soon as as the hour is over it’s time to fire up the laptop and start work.
Searching for a more leisurely pace to begin the...
Being too busy is laziness
Earlier this week Susan Piver posted the first part of her interview with David Allen. An interesting take on busyness as a form of laziness. Two quotes really resonated:
What you might find if you slow down is who you really are. (When you do,) you’re reminded of how magnificent you are.
The planet is wired to have you learn the lesson of being responsible for where you have put your creative...
Email Simplification
New Year’s resolution goal #1: Further streamline and simplify my email workflow. Last year I started working on this with very good results and this year I want to push things a bit further. While poking around Zen Habits a couple weeks ago I came across this intriguing tip from Leo Babauta:
Simplified filing. As I mentioned above, I use Gmail’s philosophy of archiving instead of filing. I...
Seeing
If we see things as they are, then we do not have to interpret or analyze them further; we do not need to try to understand things by imposing spiritual experience or philosophical ideas upon them. As a famous zen master said: ‘When I eat, I eat; when I sleep, I sleep.’ Just do what you do, completely, fully. To do so is to be a rishi, an honest, truthful person, a straightforward person who...