Life like a great piece of art.
“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.”
~ Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917) French sculptor, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues
My favourite piece of sculpture from my favourite sculptor, and a great quote to go with it. (Although, to be honest, I’d have difficulty naming [...]
Step outside your comfort zone, and into a whole new you.
We tend to do the same things, hang out with the same sort of people, read in the same genres, watch the same old TV shows, listen to the same music. Change is something that happens to us, not something we actively seek out and cause. It’s the easy way to live, it’s comfortable.
Change is [...]
A 3 bedroom home - for 2 people?
My wife and I changed country recently. Before shifting, the two of us were fairly cramped in a 3 bedroom + garage home.
I’ll say that again. Two people. No kids (unless you count the three cats). 3 bedrooms.
Now, admittedly we both worked from home, so we could justify using a bit of extra space, but [...]
Put a limit on it - avoiding “Forever”.
Some things are just too hard. You contemplate them, and something deep inside you rebels.
Me, I had this for years with smoking. On top of the physical addiction, there was a pile of self image and emotional content attached to smoking, and this was something that I clung to, for reasons I didn’t fully understand. [...]
Starting - Productivity advice.
Most people are full of potentially great ideas, things they want to do with their lives. It’s all too easy for some things to fall into “some day”, and never get done.
The following is a piece I wrote a year or so ago, on an earlier weblog. I still think of this piece from time [...]
“But I don’t have time to…” = Worst. Excuse. Ever.
“I don’t have time” has to be one of the most common excuses ever.
You know, it’s just not true.
If you don’t have time, you just don’t want it badly enough. If it really matters to you, you’ll find time somewhere in your schedule, you’ll trim something else out, something less important.
When you say “I don’ [...]
Sans-stress
Stress: difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; “she endured the stresses and strains of life”; “he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger”
Stress is something I used to struggle with.
I’d get wound up about things going on in my life, and take it out on people around me [...]
Life without negatives
OK, let’s be honest, that’s never really going to happen. Something will go wrong once in a while, there’s nothing you can do about it.
What you can do, however, is control your reaction to whatever it is.
If you dwell on the negative, it increases in size, it takes priority in your day. It takes up [...]