“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ” Thoreau When Read more…
A few years ago, I was introduced to the slow movement. It’s about slowing down and taking time to appreciate life. So often when we walk or drive around, we are completely oblivious to the beauty of life that surrounds us. The slow movement is also about slowing down when we eat, actually tasting our food, and appreciating where the Read more…
Lifehacker.com posted recently on a way of collecting and maintaining ideas from a different perspective. I’ve read about ways of using brainstorm mapping, but they always seemed to organized for my brain to wrap itself around. This new perspective is a bit less organized from a traditional perspective, which tends to fit the way I think a bit more. It Read more…
Have you ever let the right moment slip by? Maybe it was fear, exhaustion, laziness, being too busy, or not recognizing it, but before you knew it, it was gone. Sometimes the moment comes again, but most likely it won’t. Marilyn, over at Life’s a Bumpy Road, recently wrote a post on the importance of living now. She writes: Are Read more…
The existentialists believe that the moment you set out to find meaning in life, you’re already on the wrong path and will never find it. I’ve believed that developing creativity and problem solving is the same way: creativity and solutions are found tangentially. In other words, it’s by doing other things, not focusing on the end goal that you find Read more…
