What is the equivalent of that pink Cadillac for you? What takes you back to a moment of calm if not a moment or object to rediscover your youth? Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure to include the hashtag #tds3025
Posts By: Mariana
#tds3024 Are you filling your time with the colours that matter?
Set a reminder on you phone to go off every hour. Write down how you spent the hour. At the end of the day you will be able to see how you really spend your time rather than how you think you spend your time. If you want a little more guidance you can of course get… Read more »
#tds3023 The tao of Screen
Welcome to the first daily stillness. [we are recycling this one, because we can.Over 3000 dailies, and we keep going in spite of Xiting Twitter.] Today we start as we mean to go on and go in search of the distraction-free desktop. A clean and still work surface encourages productive ends, no? Take time to… Read more »
#tds3022 Intercept knee-jerk responses
Today pause before acting and ask two questions. First, is this something that I absolutely must do? And, second, is it something that I choose to do? Unless there is a “yes” to one of these questions do not invest time in this endeavour. Write a paragraph with your insights at the end of the day in… Read more »
#tds3021 Turn routine into an open ended game
Take something in your day that has long since become so routine that you can do it in your sleep. Spot something new in it today. More to life by mdvfunes You can choose any event that makes you feel meh inside and train yourself to see something new in it each day. Tell… Read more »
#tds3020 The real secret of life
Well, why play around with small stuff? We might as well give you the real secret of life today. It is not 42 but it does take 4 minutes to find out…shhhhh! Keep it to yourself or the self improvement business will go out of business 😉 Tweet your response to @livedtime and be sure… Read more »
#tds3019 Our essential loneliness
“Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into. You… Read more »
#tds3018 Autumn leaves and impermanence
A beautiful paragraph from the original Bambi story. Two leaves talk at the end of their lives. Take your self to a quiet spot for 30 minutes and slow read this dialogue. Are you able to stay with the inevitability of change and endings just for 30 minutes today? How does connecting with endings… Read more »
#tds3017 Let’s not live in the moment
“This is a kind of neo-liberalism of the emotions, in which happiness is seen not as a response to our circumstances but as a result of our own individual mental effort, a reward for the deserving. The problem is not your sky-high rent or meager paycheck, your cheating spouse or unfair boss or teetering pile… Read more »
#tds3016 Is our mind in distress?
Video from KarmaTube From the summary copy: “We accept our over-loaded, hyper-active mind as being normal. This insightful film gently suggests otherwise and illuminates a path that has been walked for thousands of years as a way to remedy this common headache. Brian Jones recommends that we design our inner environment, just like we renovate… Read more »
#tds3015 Confessions of a bad meditator
“Meditation asks me to cease—for 20 minutes, twice each day—being a mom, wife, lover, friend, sociologist, author, speaker, coach, teacher. To give up success, in favor of peace. That’s extremely frightening to people like me.” So today, read the article and learn how to work with any fears you may have about finding some still… Read more »
#tds3014 The power of deceleration
“The first thing I ask them to do in the research process is to spend a painfully long time looking at that object. Say a student wanted to explore the work popularly known as Boy with a Squirrel, painted in Boston in 1765 by the young artist John Singleton Copley. Before doing any research in… Read more »
