Archive for January 2011

Focus: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of True Immersion in Life, Work and Play (Part 4: A Focused Conversation With Leo Babauta, Author of Focus)

Focus isn’t about putting pressure on ourselves to focus and achieve. It’s about letting go of the feeling that we need to stay updated and connected. It’s about letting go of fears so that we can find a place of calm and focus and get the things done that we truly love. – Leo Babauta [...]

The Piercing Truth of Transcendence

Aristotle has once brilliantly said, “We are what we do repeatedly.” So does that mean the vast majority of us are consumerist whores, selling our private, fragile souls to the corporations at large, so willingly handing over our already limited choices — choices made limited because of how we choose to live our lives — [...]

Awareness: The Most Precious Kind of Freedom

Editor’s Note: Joshua Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus from theminimalists.com are two really, really tall guys. How do I know? I felt like a small squirrel standing next to them while chatting at the Chicago Tweetup a few weeks back. But seriously, besides being tall, they are extremely nice and engaging and has worked hard to [...]

Focus: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of True Immersion in Life, Work and Play (Part 3: How to Pour Your Energy Into What Matters)

This is part 3 of a 4-part series entitled Focus: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of True Immersion in Life, Work and Play. Stay up-to-date on when part 4 comes out by subscribing for free with RSS or e-mail. Connect with me on Twitter and say hi. In part 1, you’re naked. In part [...]

Create or Perish (and The Reasons Why I Write)

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. – Joseph Chilton Pearce People will be misunderstood. It is human nature. Not everything I say or write will be as clear as the blue-green ocean waters of beautiful Hawaii. And when we are misunderstood (more often than we’d like), it hurts. [...]