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The Planet Does Not Need…

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” – David W. Orr

Love this illustration by Paul Davis.

Hopping Through Life on One Leg

“It doesn’t matter how sensitive you are or how damn smart and educated you are, if you’re not both at the same time, if your heart and your brain aren’t connected, aren’t working together harmoniously, well, you’re just hopping through life on one leg. You may think you’re walking, you may think you’re running a damn marathon, but you’re only on a hop trip. The connections gotta be maintained.” – Tom Robbins

50 Short Rules for a Better Life (From the Stoics)

Focus on what you can control. You control how you respond to things. Ask yourself, “Is this essential?” Meditate on your mortality every day. Value time more than money/possessions. You are the product of your habits. Remember you have the power to have no opinion. Own the morning. Put yourself up for review (Interrogate yourself). Don’t suffer imagined troubles. Try to see the good in people. Never be overheard complaining…even to yourself. Two ears, one mouth…for a reason (Zeno) There is always something you can do. Don’t compare yourself to others. Live as if you’ve died and come back (every minute is bonus time). “The best revenge is not to be like that.” Marcus Aurelius Be strict with yourself and tolerant with others. Put every impression, emotion, to the test before acting on it. Learn something from everyone. Focus on process, not outcomes. Define what success means to you. Find a way to love everything that happens (Amor fati). Seek out challenges. Don’t follow the mob. Grab the “smooth handle.” Every person is an opportunity for kindness (Seneca) Say no (a lot). Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Find one thing that makes you wiser every day. What’s bad for the hive is bad for the bee (Marcus Aurelius) Don’t judge other people. Study the lives of the greats. Forgive, forgive, forgive. Make a little progress each day. Journal. Prepare for life’s inevitable setbacks (premeditatio malorum) Look for the poetry in ordinary things. To do wrong to one, is to do wrong to yourself. (sympatheia) Always choose “Alive Time.” Associate only with people that make you better. If someone offends you, realize you are complicit in taking offense. Fate behaves as she pleases…do not forget this. Possessions are yours only in trust. Don’t make your problems worse by bemoaning them. Accept success without arrogance, handle failure with indifference. Courage. Temperance. Justice. Wisdom. (Always). The obstacle is the way. Ego is the enemy. Stillness is the key.

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Missing From Your Job Description

– Add energy to every conversation – Ask why – Find obsolete things on your task list and remove them – Treat customers better than they expect – Offer to help co-workers before they ask – Feed the plants – Leave things more organized than you found them – Invent a moment of silliness – Highlight good work from your peers – Find other great employees to join the team – Cut costs – Help invent a new product or service that people really want – Get smarter at your job through training or books – Encourage curiosity – Surface and highlight difficult decisions – Figure out what didn’t work – Organize the bookshelf – Start a club – Tell a joke at no one’s expense – Smile a lot.

I stumbled upon this post again from Seth. Not new. But oh so good.

Curated links to watch the very best documentaries online. 200+ links to awe-inspiring films from your favourite channels: Netflix, Prime, Y

Rocumentaries: Curated links to the very best documentaries on streaming services

“I’ve learned that my body can go places that my mind might not have imagined. There is something about placing a goal or ritual in your body. That’s what time (and repetition) does. And that’s where the magic lies.” Endlessly inspired by my friend Patricia Garcia-Gomez

Things That Aren’t Doing The Thing

Preparing to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Scheduling time to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Making a to-do list for the thing isn't doing the thing.

Telling people you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Messaging friends who may or may not be doing the thing isn't doing the thing.

Writing a banger tweet about how you're going to do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Hating on yourself for not doing the thing isn't doing the thing. Hating on other people who have done the thing isn't doing the thing. Hating on the obstacles in the way of doing the thing isn't doing the thing.

Fantasizing about all of the adoration you'll receive once you do the thing isn't doing the thing.

Reading about how to do the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading about how other people did the thing isn't doing the thing. Reading this essay isn't doing the thing.

The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.

Ecuador, Yasuni National Park At Night recorded by Jasmine Black.

Tree.fm allows you to listen to a random forest. This is beautiful.

“Surround yourself with people where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.” – James Clear

In this six-minute time lapse video, you can watch a single cell grow into an alpine newt salamander.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could

Louise Erdrich

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elisabeth Kübler Ross

Pizza Toast & Coffee is a little vignette of a Showa-era "kissaten" — one of the Japanese old-style cafes featured in Craig Mod’s book Kissa by Kissa.

There’s something about Japanese anything that inspires an inspiring stillness in me.

https://www.notion.so/Pizza-Toast-Coffee-Japanese-Cafe-Short-Documentary-59d9179802e44ee2b57a2cb0415f62ef

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