Posts By: Mariana

#tds52 This is why I will never be still

Posted by & filed under General, Habit honesty box.

Allie in Hyperbole and a Half tells us: “I have repeatedly discovered that it is important for me not to surpass my capacity for responsibility. Over the years, this capacity has grown, but the results of exceeding it have not changed.” Exceeding our capacity of responsibility may be the biggest contributor to a lack of… Read more »

#tds51 Common Sense Stillness Practice

Posted by & filed under Digital stillness, Look at the way your are living, Seeing Beyond.

Louis C.K.hates cell phones and speaks much wisdom about finding digital stillness without any appeal to religion or spirituality – just laughter and common sense. Enlighten-up! Tell us about a nugget you pick up from listening to this 5 minute video (NSFW). Tweet a link for your response to @livedtime and be sure to include… Read more »

#tds48 A game of balance

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“a reflexive lens for “busy”-ness, which is so often self-imposed and–for me at least–can come from a failure to meaningfully prioritize and accept that some things are always going to fall to the wayside.There is no win condition, only the number of tasks completed before getting overwhelmed.” Anastasia Salter A game based on ‘Overwhelmed: Work, Love,… Read more »

#tds47 Be Free from distraction

Posted by & filed under Digital stillness, Distraction Busting.

You daily stillness today is testing anti-distraction software. Freedom is free to test for 14 days and works across devices. Lifehacker offers a review and alternatives or find your own to test and tell us about it. Tweet a link for your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds47

#tds46 A calm inbox

Posted by & filed under Digital stillness, General.

Today set aside time to review your relationship to your inbox. Is your email inbox something that you run or does it run you? Your aim today is to add the following to your email signature and be truthful ‘This is a Calm Inbox: email is checked once in the AM and once in the… Read more »

#tds45 Forget multitasking, try monotasking

Posted by & filed under Digital stillness, Look at the way your are living.

Paolo Cardini challenges us to think about our multi-tasking lives: “How efficient is Multitasking? Let’s consider for a while the option of Monotask. Someone defined multitasking as an act of procrastination which allows us to lie on the surface of the problems.” Looking like we are achieving much, yet deepening nothing. Today you mono-task and… Read more »

#tds43 An espresso for the mind: Blame

Posted by & filed under General, Habit honesty box, Interpersonal attention.

“Brene Brown suggests that blame is a way of discharging anger. When we are listening to someone’s story and attempting to make connections to find out who’s to blame then we are not truly listening with empathy.” Watch the video an write 3 stories in your own life where you chose to blame rather than… Read more »

#tds42 Meditation 101- a 2 minute animation

Posted by & filed under Distraction Busting, General, Look at the way your are living.

Meditation 101: A Beginner’s Guide from Gobblynne on Vimeo. If all you do to balance stillness and activity today is watch this enchanting animation you will have done a lot to understand why this matters. Continue to practice? That is up to you. There are some great resources in iTunes that are free and from… Read more »

#tds41 Take a break with quibbler

Posted by & filed under Digital stillness, General, Interpersonal attention.

  An online conversation space called Quibbler exists and is set up to: “Witness people conversing in real time. Feel free to comment on the suggested topic or anything else.Your message will flash momentarily to everyone and disappear forever.” Some call it the worst communication tool in the world, we think it might be a… Read more »