The most powerful thing I am aware of is to spend your time doing what you want to do.
I've been on a multi-year mission to make as much of my calendar filled with things I actually want to do as possible. This has been SHOCKINGLY hard.
I've learned there's actually only one… Show more
Patrick OShaughnessytwitter.comThe most powerful thing I am aware of is to spend your time doing what you want to do. I've been on a multi-year mission to make as much of my calendar filled with things I actually want to do as possible. This has been SHOCKINGLY hard. I've learned there's actually only one… Show more
To me, the ideal life is to take the 20 percent of my time that make me feel most alive and see if I can cut everything else out until that fills everything. Then do that again, cutting the “worst” 80 percent of the best. This is the inverse of how many companies operate. There the ideal is often “growth,” which they take to mean “say yes to all op
... See moreThroughout the week, or whatever time period you do this live-with, increase the amount of time (coming as close to one hundred percent as possible) spent only in activities that meet at least one of the following criteria: • the activity is easy, effortless and enjoyable; • the activity is intrinsically meaningful to you; • the activity feels natu
... See moreMichael Ray • The Highest Goal: The Secret That Sustains You in Every Moment
Principle number one is to pay yourself first when it comes to time.
If you try to find time for your most valued activities by first dealing with all the other important demands on your time, in the hope that there’ll be some left over at the end, you’ll be disappointed. So if a certain activity really matters to you – a creative project, say, thou
... See moreOliver Burkeman • 4000 Weeks
I am in a fair way of having no other tasks than such as I shall like to give my self, and of enjoying what I look upon as a great happiness, leisure to read, study, make experiments, and converse at large . . . on such points as may produce something for the common benefit of mankind, uninterrupted by the little cares and fatigues of business.