One day some people came to the master and asked ‘How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence? The master held up a glass and said ’Someone gave me this glass, and I really like this glass. It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. And I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.
GTD – Tips to Capture
One of the tenets of GTD is to write everything down, capture all your thoughts on a paper or in some trusted system, and not leave any thoughts/ideas in your mind. This first step in GTD eliminates a lot of stress, because your psyche no more requires energy and attention to track and maintain them in your mind. Below are a few tips on ubiquitous capture:
Why I Blog
Why do I blog? To advise? Am I so good at managing life that I can advise someone else? I tried blogging early, didn’t succeed. Then why now? What do I want to say with my blog? What’s the intention? To gain fame? To earn? A hobby? Or is it just for the heck of it? Why should someone see my blog? What do I offer others which is already not being said by the millions of blogs/websites & gurus out there? Didn’t Shakespeare himself say, there are no original stories? Then why bother? Just to add my two cents? I ask myself these questions, & ’have no answers to any of them.
Conformity
The Psalm of Life
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
life is but an empty dream!
for the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.