I love this sign from Cultural Offering…
Nothing will make you feel better except doing the work.
So true.
Available in glorious colour, here.
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Tag: Inspiration
Something to practice your wry smile on.
In 1972, Orson Welles presented this documentary based on Alvin Toffler’s book of the same name: Future Shock.
The tone is suitably apocalyptic: Orson Welles at his doom-laden best.
Continue reading “The premature arrival of the future”
The Times reports on moves to get the NHS prescribing forest bathing for stress.
We should all walk in quiet wonder through the woods, from time to time. I posted about the healing power of woodland before, here and here, and The Times’ article offers some background and guidance:
Continue reading “Forest bathing for stress relief”
…from Patrick Rhone.
Mostly here: Rhoneisms at PatrickRhone.net.
But also here: TheCramped.com – Celebrating The Unique Pleasures of Analog(ue) Writing.
And his books, here: PatrickRhone.com. Looking back, I see I read Patrick’s Some Thoughts About Writing back in 2014, so I’ve been following him since before then.
Continue reading “Small but important thoughts…”
In talk, mark carefully what is being said, and when action is afoot, what is being done. In the latter case, look at once to see what is purposed; and in the other, make certain what is meant.
Marcus Aurelius (AD 120 – 180), Meditations (7.4)
You love your home-office, with its perfect desk and everything within reach of your perfect chair. But sometimes, you lean back in the perfect chair … and find you’ve been asleep for half an hour.
Or, maybe you just can’t focus, can’t find the way into the new project.
Sometimes, you just need a change of scenery.
Here are four alternatives to consider for a fresh perspective.
Continue reading “4 alternative places to work”
How is my soul’s helmsman going about his task? For in that lies everything. All else, within my control or beyond it, is dead bones and vapour.
Marcus Aurelius (AD 120 – 180), Meditations (12.33)
Highly recommended!
This week, I finished Donald Robertson’s new book How To Think Like a Roman Emperor. And, what a remarkable book it is.
It succeeds in being a practical introduction to Stoicism whilst combining biography, history, psychotherapy and philosophy. Each chapter uses a period in Marcus’s life to illustrate an issue, for example, conquering desire or relinquishing fear. It describes Marcus’s situation, then demonstrates Stoic exercises that deal with the topic in question.
Continue reading “Now thinking like a Roman emperor – @DonJRobertson”
I never have time to write…
But, no longer with the power of the incremental, courtesy of Execupundit:
Continue reading “The incremental – @execupundit on book-making”
What good will new countries do you? What use is touring cities and sites? All your dashing about is useless in the end. Do you ask why your flight is of no avail? You take yourself along.
You must shed the load that is on your mind: until you do that, no place will be pleasing to you.
Seneca (4 BC – AD 65), Moral Letters to Lucilius (28.2)