To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. – Kurt Vonnegut
Whatever you do is your art, if you let it be.
Do everything with an artful intention and touch.
Take care and act with awareness and love.
Let everything you do be art and your life will be a masterpiece.
“Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.” – Marcus Aurelius As we wrap up this week of “labor” related quotes, let us pause to ponder the importance of starting. So often I learn new things, or new ways of doing things, only by starting…
What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity. – J. Sidlow Baxter This week has been a bit about language and meaning so I had* to share this quote. A key question is: what is our attitude towards…
Today is Yesterday’s Tomorrow – Jim Rohn Whatever you said you were going to do “tomorrow,” or “later,” or “soon,” is now due. Just act. However imperfectly, or even incompletely, do something. Get some results, learn something about your actions: Did it work? Great! Why? Build on that information, that feed-forward. Did it not work?…
I am a regular viewer of Good Life Project videos and becoming increasingly curious about Jonathan Fields and his approach to, and relationship with, entrepreneurship. The latest GLP video is a great example of that and features Jonathan along with the founders of Soulcycle: Elizabeth Cutler and Julie Rice. If you’re at all interested in…
I was listening to a WNPR (CT Public Radio) radio show (The Colin McEnroe Show) and he was interviewing Byron Katie (of The Work). In their conversation Katie said something to effect of “all suffering comes from thought.” This McEnroe took some issue with. It was, unfortunately, a mis-understanding borne of not defining the term…
By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it. – Wallace Wattles I would tweak Wattles’ language to the following: By thought, the thing you want is brought close to you. By acting you bring it into your life. Maybe that’s what Wattles meant, and we’re (or just me…