February 2013
1 post
January 2013
2 posts
if you want a successful meeting, preparation pays. get everything on your side before you say hello.
- twyla tharp, the collaborative habit [emphasis mine]
November 2012
1 post
“Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn’t get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.”
—Nancy Werlin, Extraordinary (via selfinspiration)
September 2012
3 posts
“You need to remove from your life the day-to-day problems that absorb most people for meaningful parts of their day. “You’ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,” he said. “I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.” He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one’s ability to make further decisions. It’s why shopping is so exhausting. “You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can’t be going through the day distracted by trivia.”
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President Barack Obama in this Vanity Fair Article titled Obama’s Way
(via bobulate)
August 2012
7 posts
July 2012
20 posts
“I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.”
—James Baldwin (via ahorton92)
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
—Lao Tzu (via aplacetofindlife)
